KIP Assigned Patent

KIP CR P1 LP, New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,141,542) developed by Justiss, Steven A., Lakeway, TX, DeLine, Peter Anthony, and Moody, II, William H., Austin, TX, for a “system, method and computer program product for host system LTFS auto-adaptation.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”System, apparatus and computer program product for automatically determining a type of tape drive that is present in a media library and accessing the tape drive using commands that are adapted to the identified type of the drive. In one embodiment, a system includes a set of hosts, a media library and an archive node appliance. The archive node appliance is coupled between the hosts and the media library to provide the hosts with access to a set of drives and media in the media library. The archive node appliance has a processor and a data store that contains instructions that are executable on the processor to perform, for one or more of the drives, the method of identifying the type of the drive, identifying a set of software applications adapted to control the drive, and executing the software application, where the drive is accessed through the software application.“

The patent application was filed on June 22, 2012 (13/531,310).