Oracle Assigned Thirteen Patents

Storage library client interface
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,990,133) developed by Billington, Robert L., Lyons, CO, for a “storage library client interface system and method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for managing data contained by a storage library includes at least one storage library and a library controller configured to generate signals that control operations of the storage library. The system further includes at least one client interface operable with the library controller and being adapted to receive requests from multiple client types and communicate those requests to the library controller. Additionally, the library controller generates signals for the storage library and the storage library performs operations that correspond to the requests from the multiple client types.”

The patent application was filed on October 31, 2011 (13/285,786).

Linear actuator with coil winding portions
having opposing current flow directions
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,985,511) developed by Yeakley, Darryl Wayne, Erie, CO, and Goodknight, Frank A., Niwot, CO, for a “linear actuator with coil winding portions having opposing current flow directions.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A linear actuator for linearly positioning a recording head in a data storage mechanism. The disclosed linear actuator includes an electrically conductive coil having first and second parts that are both wound in the same rotary direction about an axis, and a magnet spaced from the electrically conductive coil by an air gap. Transmission of an electric current through the first part of the electrically conductive coil in a first current flow direction about the axis and through the second part of the electrically conductive coil in an opposite second current flow direction about the axis induces linear movement of one of the electrically conductive coil and magnet relative to the other of the electrically conductive coil and magnet.”

The patent application was filed on May 27, 2014 (14/287,415).

Redundant cable routing management in storage systems
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA has been assigned a patent (9,983,970) developed by Brooks, Stephen, Thornton, CO, Gibson, Gavin, Westminster, CO, Verma, Sudha, Zhang, Yidong, Superior, CO, Johnston, Robert, Stockton, CA, McKenney, Todd, Westminster, CO, Ledru, Pascal, Horne, Christopher, Boulder, CO, and Hanson, Stephen, Reading, Great Britain, for a “redundant cable routing management in storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Utilities, (e.g., methods, systems, apparatuses, etc.) for use in automatically identifying improper physical connections in storage networks and recommending particular actions, e.g., changes to existing physical connections) that seek to ensure symmetric and redundant connections from a data host through all associated storage enclosures and reduce the likelihood that single failures prevent access to storage system data.”

The patent application was filed on April 6, 2016 (15/091,721).

Storage and transfer of iOS binary files
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,959,100) developed by Straub, Christian David, Palo Alto, CA, for a “efficient storage and transfer of iOS binary files.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system builds an application. The system receives, by a build server, from an application development server, metadata information of the application and a build request to build the application. The system generates binaries of the application by overlaying the metadata information on binaries of a pre-compiled application. The system then signs the binaries of the application to generate signed binaries of the application, and sends, to the application development server, a corresponding signature and one or more files modified by the signing of the binaries of the application. In one embodiment, the build server stores, on a storage appliance, the corresponding signature, the one or more files modified by the signing of the binaries of the application, and the metadata information of the application.”

The patent application was filed on December 28, 2015 (14/979,828).

Selecting transport mechanism and storage process
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,930,116) developed by Dhamdhere, Sachin N., Southborough, MA, Gandhi, Nirav, Lexington, MA, Panchal, Drupad, Pelham, NH, Hamilton, Alexander, Beverly Hills, CA, Klein, Jonathan, Emerald Hills, CA, and Arora, Parmeet, Foster City, CA, for a “method and system for selecting a transport mechanism and a storage process.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system includes a transmitting agent configured to select a transport mechanism for transmitting a data item, and a receiving agent configured to select one or more data repositories and a storage process for storing the data item. One storage process includes storing the data item temporarily in the second data repository, and subsequently transferring the data item from the second data repository into the first data repository. Another storage process includes storing the data item into a first data repository without temporarily storing the data item in the second data repository.”

The patent application was filed on June 1, 2015 (14/727,779).

Optical tape with increased track pitch
for improvement of tracking performance after seam
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,916,852) developed by Wang, Lingtao, Superior, CO, Wilson, Scott, Thornton, CO, Edling, Dwayne, Mead, CO, and Mahnad, Faramarz, Brookline, MA, for a “optical tape with an increased track pitch for improvement of tracking performance after seam.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In at least one embodiment, an optical data storage tape is provided. The optical data storage tape includes a read/write data area including a plurality of writeable tracks for storing data thereon, each writeable track having a first track width. The optical data storage tape further includes a seam area positioned proximate to the read/write data area. The seam area including a plurality of non-writeable tracks, each non-writeable track including a second track width that is greater than the first track width for each writeable track.”

The patent application was filed on June 15, 2016 (15/183,036).

Data storage system with fixity end-to-end data protection during data archiving
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,916,310) developed by Hostetter, David G., Louisville, CO, and Major, David Allen, Broomfield, CO, for a “data storage system with fixity end-to-end data protection during data archiving.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage system is provided that is configured to achieve end-to-end data protection. The system includes a server running a storage archive manager with a first fixity support module, and the system includes a tape drive running a second fixity support module. During operations, the storage archive manager reads a data file with associated fixity information from a disk storage device, and the storage archive manager builds a set of blocks from the data file for writing to the tape drive. The first fixity support module checks fixity of the set of blocks by processing the fixity information associated with the data file. The processing of the fixity information includes determining whether data in the set of blocks is out of order relative to data in the data file or whether data in the set of blocks is corrupt relative to the data in the data file.”

The patent application was filed on June 24, 2015 (14/748,398).

Minimizing cross track interference for optical tape
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,911,458) developed by Edling, Dwayne, Mead, CO, Mahnad, Faramarz, Brookline, MA, and Fienberg, Matthew, Northborough, MA, for an “apparatus for minimizing cross track interference for optical tape.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In at least one embodiment, an optical data storage tape including a plurality of tracks is provided. The plurality of tracks include a first track having a plurality of first informational fields configured to store one of first positional information indicative of a location on an optical tape and a first predetermined sequence of data. The plurality of tracks further include a second track located adjacent to the first track and having a plurality of second informational fields configured to store one of second positional information indicative of the location on the optical tape and a second predetermined sequence of data. The first positional information is located adjacent to the second predetermined sequence of data on the optical tape to minimize cross track interference during a read operation.”

The patent application was filed on August 30, 2016 (15/251,522).

Optical storage system divider based draw verification
with automatic bias or delay adjustment
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,911,450) developed by Wang, Lingtao, Broomfield, CO, Lundstrom, Forrest, Westminster, CO, Fienberg, Matthew C., Northborough, MA, and Wilson, Scott D., Thornton, CO, for an “optical storage system divider based draw verification with automatic bias or delay adjustment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An optical storage system includes an optical head and a controller. The optical head is configured to split a light beam into a higher power main beam and a lower power side beam. The controller is configured to write data to an optical medium via the higher power main beam, and read, directly after writing, feedback from the optical medium containing the written data and noise caused by the higher power main beam. The controller is also configured to process the feedback using data indicative of the higher power main beam to remove the noise and generate output indicative of the written data, and automatically adjust a delay of the feedback or the data indicative of the higher power main beam based on a signal quality of the output.”

The patent application was filed on August 22, 2016 (15/243,457).

Flexible circuit with partial ground path
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,900,981) developed by Ziegler, Karl, Denver, CO, and McKinstry, Kevin D., Westminster, CO, for a “flexible circuit with partial ground path.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A head assembly for a magnetic tape storage device includes a head and a flexible circuit connected to the head. The flexible circuit includes a gripping portion, an end including electrical contacts for the head, conductors extending from the electrical contacts, and ink patterned onto the electrical contacts and gripping portion to form electrical paths therebetween. The ink conducts electrostatic charge from the electrical contacts and conductors to a grounded user in response to skin of the user contacting the ink.”

The patent application was filed on May 19, 2017 (15/600,629).

Optical storage system divider based draw verification
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,899,055) developed by Wang, Lingtao, Broomfield, CO, Wilson, Scott D., Thornton, CO, Lundstrom, Forrest, Westminster, CO, Mahnad, Faramarz, Brookline, MA, and Fienberg, Matthew C., Northborough, MA, for an “optical storage system divider based draw verification.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An optical storage system includes an optical head and controller arrangement. The arrangement is configured to write data to an optical medium via a higher power main beam, to read, directly after writing, feedback from the medium containing the written data and noise resulting from the higher power main beam, to remove the noise from the feedback by dividing the feedback with data indicative of the higher power main beam, and to generate output indicative of the written data.”

The patent application was filed on August 22, 2016 (15/243,448).

Detecting lost writes
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,892,153) developed by Li, Yunrui, Fremont, CA, Girkar, Mahesh Baburao, Cupertino, CA, and Yao, Hongyi, Jercy City, NJ, for a “detecting lost writes.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques are described that determine occurrences of lost write by comparing version identifiers of corresponding replica data blocks and checkpoints of data files that include the data blocks. A method determines lost writes that may have occurred among a first set of data blocks and a second set of data blocks. Each data block in the first set of data blocks corresponds to a respective data block in the second set that is a version of data blocks in the first set. The data blocks in the first set and the second set are associated with version identifiers. The second set of data blocks is associated with a second checkpoint for which any version of a data block in the second set associated a version identifier below the second checkpoint has been acknowledged to a database server as having been written to persistent storage. The method proceed to determining the lost writes by determining that a data block in the first set and a data block in the second set satisfy criteria, such as the version identifier of the first data block is between the version identifier of the second data block and the second checkpoint.”

The patent application was filed on December 19, 2014 (14/578,093).

Optical storage system divider based draw verification
with digitally synthesized writing laser pulse signal
Oracle International Corp., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,875,769) developed by Wang, Lingtao, Broomfield, CO, Fienberg, Matthew C., Northborough, MA, Lundstrom, Forrest, Westminster, CO, and Wilson, Scott D., Thornton, CO, for an “optical storage system divider based draw verification with digitally synthesized writing laser pulse signal.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “TAn optical storage system includes an optical head configured to split a light beam into a higher power main beam and a lower power side beam. The system also includes a controller. The controller is configured to modulate the higher power main beam according to writing commands to write to an optical medium while processing first data resulting from the lower power side beam being reflected from the medium and second data obtained from a look-up table that maps the writing commands to digital representations of filtered writing strategy waveforms to remove noise from the first data caused by the higher power main beam and generate output indicative of written data directly after writing.”

The patent application was filed on August 22, 2016 (15/243,484).