Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212222 | Access control management - In one embodiment, a cartridge library, comprises a management component comprising a first processor module and a memory medium communicatively connected to the first processor module, an interface controller comprising a second processor module and a memory medium communicatively connected to the second processor module, wherein the interface controller comprises logic instructions stored on a computer readable medium which, when executed, cause the second processor module to, record, in a memory medium coupled to the cartridge library, at least one access control parameter, wherein the access control parameter identifies at least one of a user, a server, a command, or a time, receive, in an interface controller coupled to the cartridge library, a request for at least one resource of the cartridge library, and implement an access control routine in the interface controller to use the access control parameter to determine whether to limit a user's ability to perform at least one command on at least one resource of the cartridge library during at least one time period. | 09-04-2008 |
20100080392 | Key Management In Storage Libraries - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for managing encryption keys in a storage library. One method includes using a tape library to determine which key manager is selected for data encryption operations to a tape drive when multiple different key managers exist in a storage system. | 04-01-2010 |
20100080393 | Cryptographic Key Management In Storage Libraries - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for managing encryption keys in a storage library. One method includes receiving a request to read or write data to a tape drive; initiating, by the tape drive, a request for an encryption key to encrypt or decrypt the data; and transmitting the encryption to key to the tape drive through an out-of-band path. | 04-01-2010 |
20120191886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING DEVICES THROUGH AN SAS INITIATOR-CONNECTED DEVICE - A method, system and computer readable medium for presenting unique Serial Attached Small computer system interface (SAS) target devices through a single target device. The method includes embedding a SAS protocol chip within an initiator-connectable device, the SAS protocol chip having storage for at least two SAS addresses and configured to select a single address, loading two or more SAS addresses into the SAS protocol chip, and mapping a respective SAS address to one of the unique target devices. The system includes a SAS protocol chip having storage for at least two SAS addresses and a method for selecting a single SAS address, and a processor unit connected to the SAS protocol chip by an interface bus, the processor configured to load two or more identifier addresses into the SAS protocol chip. The computer readable medium contains instructions that cause a processor to perform the described methods. | 07-26-2012 |
20130007359 | ACCESS COMMANDS INCLUDING EXPECTED MEDIA POSITIONS - Techniques to send and receive access commands are provided. The access commands may include an expected media position. The expected media position may be compared to an actual media position. | 01-03-2013 |
20130290772 | SEQUENCE INDICATOR FOR COMMAND COMMUNICATED TO A SEQUENTIAL ACCESS STORAGE DEVICE - A command is communicated by a computer and received by a sequential storage access device. The command includes a sequence indicator. The sequential storage access device uses the sequence indicator, in a communication path failure recovery operation, to at least determine whether a command has been confirmed by the device driver as being processed by the sequential access storage device. | 10-31-2013 |
20140078609 | ACCESS TO MIGRATED TAPES - A system including a tape library and a tape drive. The tape library identifies which tapes in the tape library include one or more migrated tapes. The tape drive provides access to each migrated tape of the one or more migrated tapes by an original application. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089556 | SESSION KEY ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNICATION PATH - Techniques for associating a session key with a communication path are provided. A host may provide a session key to a library controller over a first communications path. The library controller may associate the communications path with the session key. In one aspect, commands received over the first communications path are associated with the session key. In another aspect, the session key may be associated with a second communications path when the communications path is to be changed. | 03-27-2014 |