Panasonic Assigned Patent

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,208,165) developed by Yuba, Akinori, Osaka, Japan, for a “data archive system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The data archive system according to the present disclosure includes a client terminal 3, and a NAS device 12 connected to the client terminal 3 via a network 5. The NAS device 12 includes a server 2 and a storage device 1. The storage device 1 includes a drive 7 to record a file on a medium 9. The server 2 stores a file name of the file recorded on the medium 9 by the drive 7 and location information of the medium 9 in association with each other. Upon start of operation of reading a specific file, the client terminal 3 acquires location information of a medium 9 associated with a file name of the specific file from the server 2 via the network 5, and displays different icons according to the location information.“

The patent application was filed on December 20, 2013 (14/135,938).