US Patent 11593026 Zone storage optimization using predictive protocol patterns

A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, data for storage in a dispersed storage network; writing, by the computing device, the data to a first location; generating, by the computing device, a first pointer to the first location; receiving, by the computing device, updated data that is an updated version of the data; writing, by the computing device, the updated data to a second location; generating, by the computing device, a second pointer to the second location; and deleting, by the computing device, the first pointer at a time after writing the updated data and generating the second pointer.