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KIP CR P1 Assigned Patent

Computer program product for tamper protection in storage system

KIP CR P1 LP, New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,170,745) developed by Klein, Andrew Glen, Leander, TX, DeLine, Peter Anthony, and Moody, II, William H., Austin, TX, for a “system, method and computer program product for tamper protection in a data storage system.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods and computer software utilized in the implementation of tamper protection, where unique information associated with data storage tapes and with particular revisions of these tapes is stored on the storage medium itself and on a memory of the tape cartridge, so that the data can be compared to determine whether unauthorized modifications have been made to the tapes. One embodiment is a system which includes an archive node appliance coupled between a set of hosts and a tape media library. The archive node appliance presents files stored on a tape of a media library as a directory. The archive node appliance maintains tamper prevention data on the tape and on an auxiliary memory on the cartridge of the tape, and determines from this data whether the tape has been altered by an authorized system.“

The patent application was filed on May 6, 2014 (14/271,207).

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