Patents by Inventor Jon Arthur Lynds
Jon Arthur Lynds 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: 8645715Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for configuring host settings to specify encryption and a key label referencing a key encrypting key to use to encrypt an encryption key provided to a storage drive to use to encrypt data from the host. User settings are received to configure a data class having data attributes with encryption settings. The data class is stored with the received user encryption settings. A job is received indicating a data set to store to a removable storage medium. A data class is determined having data class attributes matching data attributes of the data set indicated in the job. A determination is made from the determined data class whether to encrypt the data.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Erika Marianna Dawson, Richard Henry Guski, Michael James Kelly, Cecelia Carranza Lewis, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten, Peter Grimm Sutton
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Patent number: 8321379Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are presented for scaling storage media to improve data access performance. A scaling module is provided and configured to receive a dataset, identify storage characteristics of the dataset, make a determination based upon user-defined storage criteria, and select a storage instruction. In one embodiment, the storage instruction is configured to scale the storage medium to a predefined capacity. The predefined capacity of the storage medium is configured to optimize data access performance. Alternatively, the storage instruction is configured to not scale the storage medium. Additionally, the present invention may be configured to map and track the storage medium while the dataset is being written to or read from the storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jean R. Chang, Kirby Grant Dahman, Erika Marianna Dawson, Stanley Mark Kissinger, Gavin Stuart Johnson, Jon Arthur Lynds, Michael Ray Noel, Linda Jean Schiltz
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Patent number: 8291158Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for enforcing policy controls for non-system managed tape media. The apparatus includes an operating system configured to communicate with a tape media drive, and an identification module configured to identify a tape media type of a tape media cartridge. The apparatus may also include a policy module configured to maintain control policies for tape media types, and a media control module configured to enforce the control policies. The system includes a computing system having a processor, a cache, an operating system, and a plurality of input/output interfaces, a tape media drive coupled to the computing system, and the apparatus. The method includes communicating with a tape media drive, identifying a tape media type of a tape media cartridge, maintaining a plurality of control policies for tape media types, and enforcing the plurality of control policies.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jean Rawwei Chang, Erika Marianna Dawson, Jon Arthur Lynds, Michael Ray Noel, Linda Jean Schiltz, Michael William Wood
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Publication number: 20090067633Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for configuring host settings to specify encryption and a key label referencing a key encrypting key to use to encrypt an encryption key provided to a storage drive to use to encrypt data from the host. User settings are received to configure a data class having data attributes with encryption settings. The data class is stored with the received user encryption settings. A job is received indicating a data set to store to a removable storage medium. A data class is determined having data class attributes matching data attributes of the data set indicated in the job. A determination is made from the determined data class whether to encrypt the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Erika Marianna Dawson, Richard Henry Guski, Michael James Kelly, Cecilia Carranza Lewis, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten, Peter Grimm Sutton
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Patent number: 7020742Abstract: The present invention provides fast read performance for accessing a file from a multiplicity of files when its corresponding Block ID is unavailable, by furnishing new file-positioning commands, allowing access to data based on File Number, at the same fast locate speed as with Block Ids, thereby expanding the range of applications that can use certain tape drive systems effectively. The present invention includes both a device architecture for supporting the file oriented positioning and the appending, as well as a software system that can permit easy application access to the device facilities and system components which permit the advantages to accrue without any software application or operator changes, including a robust architecture for navigating residual data, e.g., for data recovery. The present invention comprises several device command innovations, a relative positioning command, an absolute positioning command, and other commands, e.g., for sensing current position.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ralph Thomas Beeston, Kirby Grant Dahman, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Christopher Paul Grunow, Joel Kenneth Lyman, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten
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Patent number: 6832287Abstract: The present invention provides fast read performance for accessing a file from a multiplicity of files when its corresponding Block ID is unavailable, by furnishing new file-positioning commands, allowing access to data based on File Number, at the same fast locate speed as with Block Ids, thereby expanding the range of applications that can use certain tape drive systems effectively. The present invention includes both a device architecture for supporting the file oriented positioning and the appending, as well as a software system that can permit easy application access to the device facilities and system components which permit the advantages to accrue without any software application or operator changes, including a robust architecture for navigating residual data, e.g., for data recovery. The present invention comprises several device command innovations, a relative positioning command, an absolute positioning command, and other commands, e.g., for sensing current position.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ralph Thomas Beeston, Kirby Grant Dahman, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Christopher Paul Grunow, Joel Kenneth Lyman, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten
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Patent number: 6725350Abstract: A storage management system, apparatus, and method to increase the storage capacity of data storage media. Applicants' method uses a data storage device comprising a fixed device architecture, where that data storage device is capable of operating in a first capacity mode or in a second capacity mode, and where that data storage device is capable of switching between the first capacity mode and the second capacity mode. In certain embodiments, the first capacity mode utilizes a 22 bit blockid format and the second capacity mode utilizes a 32 bit blockid format. In other embodiments, the first capacity mode utilizes a 32 bit blockid format and the second capacity mode utilizes a 22 bit blockid format. A computer code product comprising a data management system which includes an operating system and data storage device microcode, which supports the capability to switch between alternative information storage architectures, and thereby, increase the capacity utilization of data storage media.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lyn Lequam Ashton, Kirby Grant Dahman, Erika Marianna Dawson, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Gavin Stuart Johnson, Jon Arthur Lynds, Michael Ray Noel, Anthony Steve Pearson, James Mitchell Ratliff, Wayne Erwin Rhoten
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Patent number: 6711580Abstract: A method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. A data storage device comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein for implementing Applicants' method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. A data storage and retrieval system comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein for implementing Applicants' method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. Computer program products embodied as program code stored in one or more memory devices, such as a magnetic disk, a magnetic tape, or other non-volatile memory device disposed in a host computer, a data storage device, and/or a library controller.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kirby Grant Dahman, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Gavin Stuart Johnson, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten
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Publication number: 20030074522Abstract: A method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. A data storage device comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein for implementing Applicants' method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. A data storage and retrieval system comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein for implementing Applicants' method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. Computer program products embodied as program code stored in one or more memory devices, such as a magnetic disk, a magnetic tape, or other non-volatile memory device disposed in a host computer, a data storage device, and/or a library controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2001Publication date: April 17, 2003Inventors: Kirby Grant Dahman, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Gavin Stuart Johnson, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten
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Publication number: 20030065881Abstract: A method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. A data storage device comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein for implementing Applicants' method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. A data storage and retrieval system comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein for implementing Applicants' method to record information on a data storage medium using buffered tape marks. Computer program products embodied as program code stored in one or more memory devices, such as a magnetic disk, a magnetic tape, or other non-volatile memory device disposed in a host computer, a data storage device, and/or a library controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Kirby Grant Dahman, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Gavin Stuart Johnson, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten
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Publication number: 20030065667Abstract: A method for fast multiple file write operations using a deferred conditional a write tape mark command and a deferred conditional tape mark indicator. A data storage and retrieval system comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein for implementing Applicants' method for fast multiple file write operations. A data management system comprising computer program products embodied as program code stored in one or more memory devices, such as a magnetic disk, a magnetic tape, or another non-volatile memory device, disposed in a host computer and/or a data storage and retrieval system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Kirby Grant Dahman, Erika Marianna Dawson, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Gavin Stuart Johnson, Jon Arthur Lynds, James Mitchell Ratliff, Wayne Erwin Rhoten
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Publication number: 20030065903Abstract: A storage management system, apparatus, and method to increase the storage capacity of data storage media. Applicants' method uses a data storage device comprising a fixed device architecture, where that data storage device is capable of operating in a first capacity mode or in a second capacity mode, and where that data storage device is capable of switching between the first capacity mode and the second capacity mode. In certain embodiments, the first capacity mode utilizes a 22 bit blockid format and the second capacity mode utilizes a 32 bit blockid format. In other embodiments, the first capacity mode utilizes a 32 bit blockid format and the second capacity mode utilizes a 22 bit blockid format.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Lyn Lequam Ashton, Kirby Grant Dahman, Erika Marianna Dawson, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Gavin Stuart Johnson, Jon Arthur Lynds, Michael Ray Noel, James Mitchell Ratliff, Anthony Steve Pearson, Wayne Erwin Rhoten
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Publication number: 20030065882Abstract: The present invention provides fast read performance for accessing a file from a multiplicity of files when its corresponding Block ID is unavailable, by furnishing new file-positioning commands, allowing access to data based on File Number, at the same fast locate speed as with Block Ids, thereby expanding the range of applications that can use certain tape drive systems effectively. The present invention includes both a device architecture for supporting the file oriented positioning and the appending, as well as a software system that can permit easy application access to the device facilities and system components which permit the advantages to accrue without any software application or operator changes, including a robust architecture for navigating residual data, e.g., for data recovery. The present invention comprises several device command innovations, a relative positioning command, an absolute positioning command, and other commands, e.g., for sensing current position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Ralph Thomas Beeston, Kirby Grant Dahman, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Christopher Paul Grunow, Joel Kenneth Lyman, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten