Patents by Inventor William R. Forbis, III

William R. Forbis, III 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).

  • Systems and methods for managing tape drive operation
    Patent number: 7809880
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing operation of multiple tape drives in a way so that incoming data is spread or distributed across the multiple tape drives and which may be implemented in one example to continuously accept for recording without interruption from one or more data sources, for example, so that the date is distributed across the multiple tape drives in real time and without interruption as it becomes available from one or more given data sources. Two or more tape drives may be further be managed in a manner such that the multiple drives appear to be a single drive when writing data to, or reading data from, the multiple tape drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Integrated Systems L.P.
    Inventors: William R. Forbis, III, Patrick H. Horsley
  • Systems and methods for managing tape drive operation
    Publication number: 20090077300
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing operation of multiple tape drives in a way so that incoming data is spread or distributed across the multiple tape drives and which may be implemented in one example to continuously accept for recording without interruption from one or more data sources, for example, so that the date is distributed across the multiple tape drives in real time and without interruption as it becomes available from one or more given data sources. Two or more tape drives may be further be managed in a manner such that the multiple drives appear to be a single drive when writing data to, or reading data from, the multiple tape drives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: William R. Forbis, III, Patrick H. Horsley