Patents by Inventor Katsumi Yoshimura
Katsumi Yoshimura 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).
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Patent number: 11087797Abstract: There is provided a tape recording apparatus system capable of improving writing performance and maintaining tape recording density, for a multiple data writing request accompanied by a lot of synchronization requests from a host. The system is a tape storage system including two or more tape drives each of which has a tape mounted thereon and is provided with a buffer divided in fixed-length segments, and connected to a host that sends multiple data and a synchronization request at a predetermined timing to these tape drives.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Abe, Takashi Katagiri, Motoko Oe, Setsuko Masuda, Yutaka Oishi, Noriko Yamamoto, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 9343106Abstract: In a controller of a tape drive, when an error recovery section cannot recover an error detected by an error detecting section, an error-report generation section generates an error report, an error-information acquisition section acquires error information of the tape drive and a cartridge loaded in the tape drive, an error-information exchange section acquires pieces of error information of other tape drives and cartridges loaded in these other tape drives, an error-factor judging section judges whether the error is attributable to the tape drive or the cartridge based on these pieces of error information, an error-report update section updates the error report in accordance with the result of this judgment, and an error-report output section outputs the error report thus updated to a host.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Itagaki, Yutaka Oishi, Kazuhiro Ozeki, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20150155004Abstract: In a controller of a tape drive, when an error recovery section cannot recover an error detected by an error detecting section, an error-report generation section generates an error report, an error-information acquisition section acquires error information of the tape drive and a cartridge loaded in the tape drive, an error-information exchange section acquires pieces of error information of other tape drives and cartridges loaded in these other tape drives, an error-factor judging section judges whether the error is attributable to the tape drive or the cartridge based on these pieces of error information, an error-report update section updates the error report in accordance with the result of this judgment, and an error-report output section outputs the error report thus updated to a host.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Hiroshi Itagaki, Yutaka Oishi, Kazuhiro Ozeki, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8984351Abstract: In a controller of a tape drive, when an error recovery section cannot recover an error detected by an error detecting section, an error-report generation section generates an error report, an error-information acquisition section acquires error information of the tape drive and a cartridge loaded in the tape drive, an error-information exchange section acquires pieces of error information of other tape drives and cartridges loaded in these other tape drives, an error-factor judging section judges whether the error is attributable to the tape drive or the cartridge based on these pieces of error information, an error-report update section updates the error report in accordance with the result of this judgment, and an error-report output section outputs the error report thus updated to a host.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Itagaki, Yutaka Oishi, Kazuhiro Ozeki, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8810951Abstract: Data of a target capacity calculated by a nominal capacity of a tape medium minus a data capacity lost due to execution of backhitchless writing is written to the tape medium. In a tape drive, a command processing unit 41 receives a synchronization command, and a buffer management unit passes data in a buffer to a channel input-output unit. Upon completion of writing the data to the tape, a backhitch determination unit determines whether a mode information storage unit stores information indicating that a high data rate mode is on, whether data of a target capacity can be written to the tape, and whether the written data can be read at a target read data rate. An operation signal output unit issues a command to execute backhitch in case these conditions are not satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Atsushi Abe, Takashi Katagiri, Hironobu Nagura, Hirokazu Nakayama, Yutaka Oishi, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20130031427Abstract: In a controller of a tape drive, when an error recovery section cannot recover an error detected by an error detecting section, an error-report generation section generates an error report, an error-information acquisition section acquires error information of the tape drive and a cartridge loaded in the tape drive, an error-information exchange section acquires pieces of error information of other tape drives and cartridges loaded in these other tape drives, an error-factor judging section judges whether the error is attributable to the tape drive or the cartridge based on these pieces of error information, an error-report update section updates the error report in accordance with the result of this judgment, and an error-report output section outputs the error report thus updated to a host.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Itagaki, Yutaka Oishi, Kazuhiro Ozeki, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20120293887Abstract: Data of a target capacity calculated by a nominal capacity of a tape medium minus a data capacity lost due to execution of backhitchless writing is written to the tape medium. In a tape drive, a command processing unit 41 receives a synchronization command, and a buffer management unit passes data in a buffer to a channel input-output unit. Upon completion of writing the data to the tape, a backhitch determination unit determines whether a mode information storage unit stores information indicating that a high data rate mode is on, whether data of a target capacity can be written to the tape, and whether the written data can be read at a target read data rate. An operation signal output unit issues a command to execute backhitch in case these conditions are not satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2010Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Abe, Takashi Katagiri, Hironobu Nagura, Hirokazu Nakayama, Yutaka Oishi, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20120079185Abstract: A tape storage system according to one embodiment includes two or more tape storage apparatuses each having a buffer divided in fixed-length segments, and being connectable to a host, where a first of the tape storage apparatuses is configured to receive multiple data clusters and a synchronization request from a host, and, when one of the segments of the buffer is accumulated and filled with the data, to write the accumulated data onto a tape. A second of the tape storage apparatuses is connected to the first tape storage apparatus, the second tape storage apparatus being configured to receive the multiple data clusters sent from the host via the first tape storage apparatus, and being configured to write a predetermined number of data clusters accumulated in the segments thereof onto a second tape at a timing corresponding to the synchronization request.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Abe, Takashi Katagiri, Motoko Oe, Setsuko Masuda, Yutaka Oishi, Noriko Yamamoto, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8037346Abstract: A system for processing a data read error from a tape medium in one embodiment includes a reading section for reading data in data units from a tape medium; a reading control section for controlling said reading section to read data, and on condition that if an error occurs in reading one of said data units, the data unit where the error occurs is considered an error data unit and the reading control section issues an instruction to skip the error data unit and read the next readable data unit immediately after the error data unit; a computation section for computing a number of records and a number of boundary marks included in the error data unit where said error occurs from information about the records and boundary marks included in the data unit preceding the error data unit that is read immediately before said error occurs, and information about the records and boundary marks included in the data unit next to said error data unit, the boundary marks indicating the boundary of a record block; and a commuType: GrantFiled: August 11, 2008Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Takashi Katagiri, Eiji Tosaka, Katsumi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20080294954Abstract: A system for processing a data read error from a tape medium in one embodiment includes a reading section for reading data in data units from a tape medium; a reading control section for controlling said reading section to read data, and on condition that if an error occurs in reading one of said data units, the data unit where the error occurs is considered an error data unit and the reading control section issues an instruction to skip the error data unit and read the next readable data unit immediately after the error data unit; a computation section for computing a number of records and a number of boundary marks included in the error data unit where said error occurs from information about the records and boundary marks included in the data unit preceding the error data unit that is read immediately before said error occurs, and information about the records and boundary marks included in the data unit next to said error data unit, the boundary marks indicating the boundary of a record block; and a commuType: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Takashi Katagiri, Eiji Tosaka, Katsumi Yoshimura