Bank of America Assigned Patent

Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,898,470) developed by Zott, Jerome M., Glastonbury, CT, for a “transferring archived data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system for transferring archived data comprises one or more interfaces, each operable to read data from magnetic storage tape, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more interfaces and operable to: identify a file stored on a magnetic storage tape, the file having a first format, identify a date associated with the identified file, identify one from a plurality of intermediate platforms based at least in part on the identified date, the intermediate platforms operable to access data from file formats associated with a range of dates, transfer the identified file to the identified intermediate platform, access data in the identified file using the identified intermediate platform, transfer the accessed data from the identified intermediate platform to a contemporary software platform, and store the accessed data in a second format.”

The patent application was filed on August 5, 2015 (14/819,108).