StorageDNA Assigned Patent
Tape data access with random access features
By Francis Pelletier | August 6, 2021 at 2:00 pmStorageDNA, Inc., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,048,628) developed by Chakravarty, Tridib, Irvine, CA, for a “tape data access with random access features.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Retrieval of files containing audiovisual information from tape may be accelerated by storing non-sequentially read information in non-tape memory, and subsequently reading the file from tape, with reads of the non-sequentially read information fulfilled from the non-tape memory. In some embodiments a random access database is created when the file is opened or written to tape, and utilized to determine locations in the file of non-sequentially read information, or to determine the non-sequentially read information.”
The patent application was filed on March 28, 2019 (Appl. No.16/367,730).











