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Oracle Assigned Two Patents

Tape guide roller with serpentine flanges, cooperative storage management

Tape guide roller with serpentine flanges
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,947,824) developed by Coburn, Peter R., Lafayette, CO, and Vanderheyden, William J., Loveland, CO, for a “tape guide roller with serpentine flanges.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A tape guide roller is provided for use with a tape drive configured to receive a length of tape. The tape guide roller includes a roller body having an outer surface for receiving the tape thereon, and flanges on opposite ends of the roller body. At least one of the flanges has a portion with a serpentine configuration in cross-section.

The patent application was filed on October 31, 2013 (14/068,315).

Cooperative storage management
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA
, has been assigned a patent (8,949,367) developed by Wertheimer, Steven, Kentfield, CA, Olagappan, Muthu, San Ramon, CA, Guzman, Raymond, Amherst, NH, Fisher, William, Concord, MA, Beldalker, Anand, Banglore, India, Rao, Venky Nagaraja, Belmont, CA, Plakyda, Chris, Londonderry, NH, Roy, Debjyoti, Banglore, India, and Dizdar, Senad, San Francisco, CA, for a “cooperative storage management.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques for cooperative storage management are described. According to embodiments described herein, a storage server stores backup data for a plurality of client systems, including a first client system and one or more other client systems. The storage server receives a request from the first client system to store new backup data. In response to the request from the first client system, the storage server determines which backup data to delete to make space for the new backup data based, at least in part, on retention duration goals associated with the one or more other client systems. The retention duration goals indicate that the client desires to be able to recover data at least as old as a specified age. The storage server may also determine which backup data to delete based, at least in part, on respective minimum space parameter values for the other client systems.

The patent application was filed on October 31, 2011 (13/286,070).

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