Patents

US 11360674 B2: Encoded parity

Granted
2022-06-14
Filed
2020-01-13 application 16741172
Type
Utility · 19 claims
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Abstract

A magazine-based data storage library in connection with a disk drive-based archive storage system is described that essentially generates parity data for tape formatted data streams (stored to tape cartridges) that do not align by way of data blocks or file marks. Data streams intended for tape storage sent to tape cartridges are also sent to a disk drive storage system via an encoder where parity of the data streams can be generated. More specifically, the encoder digitally formats tape blocks and tape marks (as well as other tape formatted structure) in a digital stream of data that can be added to other encoded digital streams of data to generate parity. To reconstruct a specific tape cartridge from a tape set, the encoded data from each of the tapes in the tape set are subtracted from the parity data and the remaining encoded data is decoded and sent to a designated tape cartridge.

Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg220614.xml).

Assignees

AssigneeTypePlaceAlso on furp.orgSource
Spectra Logic Corporation 110 patentsUS company or organizationBoulder, COPVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10

Inventors

InventorPlacePatentsPerson pageSource
Joshua Daniel CarterLafayette, CO17PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10

CPC categories

SubclassCategoryFirst groupSource
G06FElectric digital data processingG06F3/0619PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10
G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducerG11B20/1833PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10

Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).

Assignments and security interests

RecordedWhatFromToReel/frameSource
2026-09-02Assignment
Assignment of assignor's interest
CARTER, JOSHUA DANIEL signed 2016-12-14SPECTRA LOGIC CORPORATION BOULDER, CO75889/106PASDL, file of 2026-10-15

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