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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:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2010
Applicants:
Arnon Amir, Saratoga, CA (US);
David A. Pease, San Jose, CA (US);
Rainer Richter, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Arnon Amir, Saratoga, CA (US);
David A. Pease, San Jose, CA (US);
Rainer Richter, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11B 20/12 (2006.01); G11B 27/00 (2006.01); G11B 27/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/0617 (2013.01); G06F 3/0686 (2013.01); G11B 20/1201 (2013.01); G11B 27/002 (2013.01); G11B 27/328 (2013.01); G11B 2220/956 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes loading a tape cartridge into at least one tape drive installed in an automated tape library, where a tape of the tape cartridge has at least two partitions; writing plurality of data blocks on a first of the partitions; and writing an index on a second of the partitions, wherein the index includes information about at least one of files and the blocks on the first partition.