US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Data migration between virtual tape systems using tape VOLSER conversion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,591, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data migration between virtual tape systems using tape VOLSER conversion" was invented by Takeshi Nohta (Tsukuba, Japan), Nao Takemura (Narashino, Japan), Tomoaki Ogino (Chiba, Japan), Taisei Takai (Tokyo) and Rin Fujiwara (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, in accordance with one embodiment, includes receiving a request to migrate data from a source virtual tape system to a destination virtual tape system. A serial number of a logical volume having the data in the destination virtual tape system is add...