Patents by Inventor Richard V. Keele

Richard V. Keele 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 for creating related sets via once caching common file with each unique control file associated within the set to create a unique record image
    Patent number: 5611066
    Abstract: A mainframe computer programmed to convert input data sets and build HSG or ISO-9660 Compact Disc (CD) images communicates with a channel attached controller that is in turn attached to one or more writers of respective Writable Compact Discs (CD-Ws). The images generated through batch processing in the mainframe computer are cached on the writers both so as to increase the speed of CD-W generation. Both subsequent labeling, and distribution of the CD-Ws to remotely-situated end users who view the CD-W images on PCs, are automated under positive closed loop feedback, control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Data/Ware Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard V. Keele, Cathleen M. Morin, Michael C. Goodsell, Robert Neverisky
  • Virtual addressing of optical storage media as magnetic tape equivalents
    Patent number: 5455926
    Abstract: An optical disk storage system emulates a magnetic tape subsystem by virtual addressing of data recorded on write once optical disk media having a predetermined group of available sectors for rewriting a disk ID, a predetermined plurality of bands of available sectors for rewriting a virtual tape directory to virtual tape VSNs, and, available sectors for rewriting virtual tape maps and rewriting user records, the tape maps have data portions for simulating tape marks and interblock gap and for addressing blocks of data within the virtual tapes, the virtual tape directory has pointers for pointing to tape maps, and the system rewrites the tape directory, tape maps and user records so as to function as a rewritable magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Data/Ware Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard V. Keele, Craig D. Mautner, Tracy J. Thorpe, Sidney R. Thompson, Michael C. Goodsell, Philip J. Erdelsky
  • Optical disk system emulating magnetic tape units
    Patent number: 5438674
    Abstract: An optical disk system emulating a 3480 magnetic tape subsystem having one or more magnetic tape drives, includes a VMEGate channel attached processor for receiving CCW tape commands, a SCSI board for controlling SCSI optical disk drives, a serial I/O board for controlling jukebox optical disk media handlers for automatically robotically loading and unloading optical disks containing virtual tape data into the optical disk drives, a cache RAM for buffering data between the channel and the optical disk drives, operator consoles for emulating the 3480 magnetic tape subsystem control panels, an SBC computer and VME bus for central control of the system, and floppy and hard disk drives for storing emulation SBC programs and disk directories, to enable the system to exhibit an organization of virtual tape data into a system of pointers and user records of the virtual tapes, a reallocatable mapping between magnetic tape drives and the optical disk drives, disk directories cross referencing virtual tapes VSNs to opt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Data/Ware Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard V. Keele, Craig D. Mautner, Tracy J. Thorpe, Sidney R. Thompson, Michael C. Goodsell