CommVault Assigned Patent

CommVault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (8,996,823) developed by Kottomtharayil, Rajiv, Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, Marlboro, NJ, and Muller, Marcus S., Granville, OH, for a “parallel access virtual tape library and drives.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method described herein allows a virtual tape library, (VTL) to perform multiple simultaneous or parallel read/write or access sessions with disk drives or other storage media, particularly when subject to a sequential SCSI-compliant layer or traditional limitations of VTLs. In one embodiment, a virtualizing or transaction layer can establish multiple sessions with one or more clients to concurrently satisfy the read/write requests of those clients for physical storage resources. A table or other data structure tracks or maps the sessions associated with each client and the location of data on the physical storage devices.“

The patent application was filed on December 23, 2013 (14/139,414).