US 11,823,718 B2Granted

Acclimating data storage media and components in a data storage library

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsJose G Miranda Gavillan, Brian G. Goodman, Kenny Nian Gan Qiu

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Abstract

A computer program product for acclimating at least one electronic data storage library component for insertion or removal from an electronic data storage library, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media. The program instructions include program instructions to insert at least one data storage library component into an acclimation device; to monitor at least one environmental condition within the acclimation device; to determine if the at least one environmental condition within the acclimation device meets a predetermined threshold; to adjust the at least one environmental condition within the acclimation device; and to remove the at least one electronic data storage library component from the acclimation device in response to determining that the at least one environmental condition within the acclimation device meets the predetermined threshold.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer program product for acclimating at least one electronic data storage library component for insertion into or removal from an electronic data storage library, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
programming instructions to monitor at least one acclimation environmental condition within an interior of at least one acclimation device;
programming instructions to determine if the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device is within a first threshold of at least one exterior environmental condition outside of the electronic data storage library;
programming instructions to determine if the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device is within a second threshold of at least one interior environmental condition within an interior of the electronic data storage library;
programming instructions to perform, in response to determining that the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device is within the first threshold, at least one of inserting the at least one electronic data storage library component into the interior of the at least one acclimation device or removing the at least one electronic data storage library component from the interior of the at least one acclimation device;
and programming instructions to perform, in response to determining that the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device is within the second threshold, at least one of inserting the at least one electronic data storage library component into the interior of the at least one acclimation device or removing the at least one electronic data storage library component from the interior of the at least one acclimation device.

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A method of inserting and removing at least one electronic data storage library component into or from an electronic data storage library, the method comprising:

monitoring at least one acclimation environmental condition within an interior of at least one acclimation device;
monitoring at least one interior environmental condition within an interior of the electronic data storage library;
monitoring at least one exterior environmental condition outside the electronic data storage library;
adjusting the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device;
determining if the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device is within a first threshold of the at least one exterior environmental condition outside of the electronic data storage library;
determining if the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device is within a second threshold of the at least one interior environmental condition within the interior of the electronic data storage library;
performing, in response to determining that the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device is within the first threshold, at least one of inserting the at least one electronic data storage library component into the interior of the at least one acclimation device or removing the at least one electronic data storage library component from the interior of the at least one acclimation device;
and
performing, in response to determining that the at least one acclimation environmental condition within the interior of the at least one acclimation device is within the second threshold, at least one of inserting the at least one electronic data storage library component into the interior of the at least one acclimation device or removing the at least one electronic data storage library component from the interior of the at least one acclimation device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/118,406Filed 7 Mar 2023 · continuation
Priority: 16 Mar 2017
Published: US 2023/0223050 A113 Jul 2023
Granted: 21 Nov 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G11B 33/142
By fluid cooling: by air cooling
G11B 15/68
Guiding containers , e.g. loading, ejecting cassettes: automatic cassette changing arrangements; automatic tape changing arrangements
G11B 15/6885
Automatic cassette changing arrangements; automatic tape changing arrangements: the cassettes being conveyed within a cassette storage location,…
G11B
Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer

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Application17/870,194Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Jul 2022
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