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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:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2005
Andrew Topham, Glos, GB;
Andrew Topham, Glos, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides embodiments of tape drive systems and methods. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of a tape drive apparatus includes an interface for receiving a media access request and a unique identifier of a requestor. The tape drive apparatus also includes a data transfer apparatus for transferring data between a loaded tape cartridge and the tape drive apparatus. The data transfer apparatus is adapted to write a log entry to a log stored in a non-volatile memory of the tape cartridge, where the log entry includes at least the unique identifier. Other systems and methods are also provided.
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