Fujitsu Assigned Two Patents

Storage control apparatus and method
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11688422) developed by Iizawa, Ken, Yokohama, Japan, for “storage control apparatus and storage control method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage control apparatus controls a tape apparatus including a plurality of tape drives. The storage control apparatus is configured to calculate, when causing the tape apparatus to execute write processing of dividing write data into a predetermined size and writing to a plurality of magnetic tapes, a write start position of the write data for each of the plurality of magnetic tapes where the write start position being different in each of the plurality of magnetic tapes and instruct the tape apparatus with the write start positions, and specify, when a reading range is designated, a read start position indicating a head of data in the reading range for each magnetic tape, and instruct the tape apparatus to read data in the reading range in an order from a magnetic tape of which the read start position is closer to an end of the magnetic tape.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-04-27 (17/730787).

Object migration system using tape medium, storage device, and object migration destination storage device
Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11687268) developed by Yoshida, Taketoshi, Kunitachi, Japan, for “object migration system using tape medium, object migration source storage device, and object migration destination storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage system includes a first storage device that includes a first memory and a first processor coupled to the first memory, and a second storage device that includes a second memory and a second processor coupled to the second memory, wherein the first processor is configured to: when migrating data in object units, generate dummy data that corresponds to the data instead of the data in object units, and transmit management information used to manage an object and the dummy data to the second storage device, and the second processor is configured to: store the management information in a storage unit in association with the object, and discard the dummy data.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-01-27 (17/159218).