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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Neville Yates, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jeffrey Miller, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sutmyn Storage Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711-4 ; 711100 ; 711111 ; 711170 ;
Abstract
An improved virtual tape storage device executes tapemark relative commands by examining metadata describing virtual tape volumes. The metadata includes information identifying groups of blocks in the virtual volume and whether a particular group of blocks includes a tapemark.