System and method for using stainless steel as a data archiving medium
OwnerSteven Michael Lacey, John Currie +2inventors
InventorsSteven Michael Lacey, John Currie, Gregory Pine, Noureddine Melikechi
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Abstract
An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for writing data on a highly indestructible material is disclosed. A laser may write data on a first side of a highly indestructible material. The data may then be marked as non-rewriteable. The data may also be written on a second side of the highly indestructible material, with the second side being opposite the first side. The highly indestructible material may comprise a stainless steel storage medium.
Claims9
A method for writing data on a material, the method comprising:
- writing, using a laser, data on a first side of the material;
- marking the data as non-rewriteable;
- writing, using the laser, the data on a second side of the material, wherein the second side is opposite the first side;
- and
- covering a first directory of the material with two or more layers of blank band in response to ejection of the material;
- wherein the material is highly indestructible material.
A method for writing data on a band, the method comprising:
- writing, using a laser, data on a top side of the band;
- marking the data as non-rewriteable;
- writing, using the laser, the data on a bottom side of the band, wherein the top side is opposite the bottom side;
- and
- covering a first directory of the stainless steel band with two or more layers of blank band in response to ejection of the stainless steel band;
- wherein the band is a stainless steel band.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer executable instructions for a computer-implemented method, comprising:
- presenting a graphical user interface on a screen that provides storage options for storing data, the storage options consist of:
- temporary storage, semi-permanent storage, and permanent storage;
- storing the data to the selected storage option in response to a user selection;
- writing, using a laser, the data to the permanent storage, the permanent storage comprising two sides, in response to the user selection of permanent storage;
- wherein the writing includes etching on a first side of the two sides digital data that is searchable and etching on a second side of the two sides a picture that corresponds to the digital data;
- covering a first directory of the permanent storage with two or more layers of blank band in response to ejection of the permanent storage;
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- wherein the permanent storage is a stainless steel roll-film.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.