Spectra Logic Assigned Patent

Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO, has been assigned a patent (11934278) developed by Thompson, Nathan Christopher, Boulder, CO, Starr, Matthew Thomas, Lafayette, CO, Ninesling, Matthew, Arvada, CO, and Wong, Walter, Boulder, CO, for a “write window protection mode in a tape library.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage library is described that protects against a malware attack by providing a scheduled write window of time where archive data can be written to tape cartridges in the tape library on behalf of a client. At times outside of the write window, the tape library is disabled from writing any archive data to any of the tape cartridges in the tape library. Accordingly, the tape library is protected from a malicious entity attempting to download malware to tape cartridges in the tape library outside of the designated write windows. The tape library is configured to provide or otherwise read archived data from a tape cartridge both in the write window and outside of the write window.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-02-27 (18/114393).