Quantum Assigned Patent

Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,032,474) developed by Prigge, Carsten, Elizabeth, CO, and Hois, Alexander, Centennial, CO, for an “unsuccessful storage media movement handling in automated removable storage media environments.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media to handle unsuccessful movements of removable storage media in an automated removable media system. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving one or more user provided parameters that indicate one or more types of unsuccessful media move operations that should be reported as successful. The method further provides receiving a first request to move a first item of removable storage media from a first position in the automated removable media system to a second position in the automated removable media system and initiating a first move operation of the first item from the first position to the second position by at least one changer device. The method then provides determining that the first move operation resulted in one of the one or more types of unsuccessful media move operations and indicating that the first move operation was successful in response to the first request.”

The patent application was filed on December 7, 2016 (15/372,169).