US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 2 for "Ordering files in magnetic tape storage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,753, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ordering files in magnetic tape storage" was invented by Tohru Hasegawa (Tokyo), Takahito Tashiro (Mitaka, Japan), Takuya Goto (Kodaira, Japan), Daisuke Hayashi (Shinjuku-ku, Japan) and Kazuki Matsumaru (Higashimurayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for writing files to tape storage. A set of files to be written to the tape storage are identified and, for each file, metadata associated with the file indicating identifiers of users associated with the file is retrieved. For each file, a predicted frequency met...