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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 01, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Bernd Freitag, Partenheim, DE;

Brian G. Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);

Frank Krick, Ockenheim, DE;

Tim Oswald, Gimbsheim, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/06 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0638 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0686 (2013.01); G06F 17/30203 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04L 69/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Transferring data from a first data storage drive of a first data storage library to a first computer system that is connected to a second data storage drive of a second data storage library. A data transfer request for transferring data accessible by the first data storage drive to the first computer system is received. A network connection is initiated between the first and the second data storage drive. An access to the requested data is initiated by the first data storage drive. A transfer of the requested data from the first to the second data storage drive via the network connection is initiated. A transfer of the requested data from the second data storage drive to the first computer system is initiated.


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