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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2007
Applicants:
Alastair Slater, Chepstow, GB;
Simon Pelly, Bristol, GB;
Matthew Jack Burbridge, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A virtual tape library including a module which is operable to issue input and output commands to a tape drive connected to the virtual tape library, wherein an input command is a command to write data to a tape connected to the tape drive and an output command is a command to read data from a tape connected to the tape drive.