Patents by Inventor Chuck Roman

Chuck Roman 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).

  • System and method for securing drive access to data storage media based on medium identifiers
    Patent number: 7472245
    Abstract: A method for securing access to a data medium comprises listing at least one unique identifier of media that a data transfer element is allowed to access in memory storage of the data transfer element, accessing only media having at least one of the listed unique identifiers in media cartridge memory with the data transfer element, and writing a unique identifier associated with the data transfer element to the cartridge memory of the selected medium with the data transfer element in response to no library assigned unique identifier being present in the cartridge memory of the selected medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Thomas Camble, Stephen Gold, Ian Peter Crighton, Curtis C. Ballard, Chuck Roman
  • System and method for securing drive access to data storage media based on medium identifiers
    Publication number: 20060168652
    Abstract: A method for securing access to a data medium comprises listing at least one unique identifier of media that a data transfer element is allowed to access in memory storage of the data transfer element, accessing only media having at least one of the listed unique identifiers in media cartridge memory with the data transfer element, and writing a unique identifier associated with the data transfer element to the cartridge memory of the selected medium with the data transfer element in response to no library assigned unique identifier being present in the cartridge memory of the selected medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Camble, Stephen Gold, Ian Crighton, Curtis Ballard, Chuck Roman
  • System and method for securing drive access to data storage media based on medium identifiers
    Patent number: 7000085
    Abstract: A method for securing access to a data medium comprises listing at least one unique identifier of media that a data transfer element is allowed to access in memory storage of the data transfer element, accessing only media having at least one of the listed unique identifiers in media cartridge memory with the data transfer element, and writing a unique identifier associated with the data transfer element to the cartridge memory of the selected medium with the data transfer element in response to no library assigned unique identifier being present in the cartridge memory of the selected medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Thomas Camble, Stephen Gold, Ian Peter Crighton, Curtis C. Ballard, Chuck Roman
  • System and method for securing drive access to data storage media based on medium identifiers
    Publication number: 20030126460
    Abstract: A method for securing access to a data medium comprises listing at least one unique identifier of media that a data transfer element is allowed to access in memory storage of the data transfer element, accessing only media having at least one of the listed unique identifiers in media cartridge memory with the data transfer element, and writing a unique identifier associated with the data transfer element to the cartridge memory of the selected medium with the data transfer element in response to no library assigned unique identifier being present in the cartridge memory of the selected medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Peter Thomas Camble, Stephen Gold, Ian Peter Crighton, Curtis C. Ballard, Chuck Roman