Patents by Inventor William R. Weakley

William R. Weakley 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).

  • Real-time library-based in situ drive test, drive head status detection, cleaning verification and tracking
    Patent number: 11662914
    Abstract: A media library (10) for evaluating a health of a head (256) of a media drive (26) includes a library control system (30) that is configured to control oversight functionality of the media library (10). The library control system (30) receives media drive information generated during at least one of a read procedure and a write procedure being performed by the media drive (26) and analyzes the media drive information to determine the health of the head (256) of the media drive (26). The media drive information includes drive performance metrics generated by the media drive (26) during a read verify procedure performed by the media drive (26) upon request of the library control system (30) of the media library (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUANTUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: James P. Peng, Turguy Goker, Stephen C. Cooper, William R. Weakley
  • REAL-TIME LIBRARY-BASED IN SITU DRIVE TEST, DRIVE HEAD STATUS DETECTION, CLEANING VERIFICATION AND TRACKING
    Publication number: 20220197515
    Abstract: A media library (10) for evaluating a health of a head (256) of a media drive (26) includes a library control system (30) that is configured to control oversight functionality of the media library (10). The library control system (30) receives media drive information generated during at least one of a read procedure and a write procedure being performed by the media drive (26) and analyzes the media drive information to determine the health of the head (256) of the media drive (26). The media drive information includes drive performance metrics generated by the media drive (26) during a read verify procedure performed by the media drive (26) upon request of the library control system (30) of the media library (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: James P. Peng, Turguy Goker, Stephen C. Cooper, William R. Weakley