Patents by Inventor Daniel Spencer Zmolek

Daniel Spencer Zmolek has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Efficient moves via spare chamber
    Patent number: 9368148
    Abstract: A magazine-based data storage library is described that includes plurality of chambers each adapted to hold a magazine, that in turn, is adapted to hold a plurality of tape cartridges. The storage library further includes a tape drive adapted to read and write data to and from tape cartridges. The storage library further includes a vacant chamber that shifts from a first chamber when a recently used magazine is disposed therein to a second chamber when a new magazine is withdrawn there from. The recently used magazine most recently being withdrawn from a different chamber than the first chamber where it is later disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Spectra Logic, Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Starr, Nathan Christopher Thompson, Daniel Spencer Zmolek, Mark Lorin Lantry
  • Efficient magazine moves
    Patent number: 8682471
    Abstract: A storage library is described that includes a tape magazine that possesses at least one spare slot and a number of other addressable slots that each contains a tape cartridge. Each addressable slot is mapped and made known to a host when the host is linked to the storage library. One of the addressable slots contains a tape cartridge that prior to being mapped as an addressable slot was formerly a spare slot unmapped to the host and the current spare slot was formerly mapped as an addressable slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Starr, Nathan Christopher Thompson, Mark Lorin Lantry, Daniel Spencer Zmolek
  • EFFICIENT MOVES VIA SPARE CHAMBER
    Publication number: 20130101373
    Abstract: A magazine-based data storage library is described that includes plurality of chambers each adapted to hold a magazine, that in turn, is adapted to hold a plurality of tape cartridges. The storage library further includes a tape drive adapted to read and write data to and from tape cartridges. The storage library further includes a vacant chamber that shifts from a first chamber when a recently used magazine is disposed therein to a second chamber when a new magazine is withdrawn there from. The recently used magazine most recently being withdrawn from a different chamber than the first chamber where it is later disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Starr, Nathan Christopher Thompson, Daniel Spencer Zmolek, Mark Lorin Lantry
  • EFFICIENT MAGAZINE MOVES
    Publication number: 20120076622
    Abstract: A storage library is described that includes a tape magazine that possesses at least one spare slot and a number of other addressable slots that each contains a tape cartridge. Each addressable slot is mapped and made known to a host when the host is linked to the storage library. One of the addressable slots contains a tape cartridge that prior to being mapped as an addressable slot was formerly a spare slot unmapped to the host and the current spare slot was formerly mapped as an addressable slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Starr, Nathan Christopher Thompson, Mark Lorin Lantry, Daniel Spencer Zmolek