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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7340749 | Method and apparatus to detect presence of or a size of a data cartridge A media-detection system for a cartridge-receiving device may comprise, according to one embodiment, a cartridge-referencing member mounted to the cartridge-receiving device. The cartridge-referencing member is resiliently displaceable by a data cartridge received i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7301857 | Media player including a resume function A method and arrangement remembers a last-played position of a recorded medium by associating an identification number with the medium and storing therewith in memory a last-play position of the medium. The identification number of the recorded medium is analyzed af... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7230887 | Multiple disc player having disc guides for relocating dislocated discs The present invention was developed in order to provide a disc player, whereby even when an inserted disc is not normally set on a stocker, or a normally set disc is dislocated from a stocker, the disc can be reset in the normal position on the stocker during a stoc... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7106538 | Library apparatus A library apparatus includes a storage shelf that has a plurality of cells for housing a cartridge that stores a plurality of recording media; a recording and reproducing unit that performs recording/reproducing of information to/from the recording media; and a conv... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7046587 | Systems and methods for providing automatic access to data media in a data storage system A system and method for providing automated access to a plurality of data media located in an extendable drawer in an opening in a data storage system are provided. Briefly, one such method comprises the steps of: receiving information associated with one of the plu... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7036131 | Printing optical disc player/recorder This disclosure provides a stand alone printing optical disc player/recorder for use in connection with CD's, DVD's, and Mini-Discs. In a particular embodiment the printing player/recorder has a combined player/recorder unit and an inkjet printer. Using a platter tr... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7016268 | Optical reproducing system having resume function based on recording time of each program on the medium A record medium playback apparatus includes a playback section and a playback control section. The playback control section is adapted to control a playback start position of the program information when the record medium playback apparatus is restarted after power ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010797 | Scalable, space efficient, high density automated library The present invention provides removable-unit storage modules, which can be combined into a network. The storage modules comprise storage cells arranged in a rule based structured configuration, and robotic hands to which move along tracks in order to retrieve objec... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6925531 | Multi-element storage array A self-contained data storage module receives a data request conforming to a first standard. The data request is translated into a second standard. At least one of the storage devices mounted on a board within the data storage module is identified. The translated da... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6925034 | Apparatus for regulating the position of a plunge mechanism of a cartridge engaging assembly Apparatus for controlling the position of a plunge mechanism which is mounted to a cartridge engaging assembly is disclosed herein. The apparatus may be embodied in a cartridge engaging assembly having a plunge mechanism that is moveable between a retracted position... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6766412 | Data storage media library with scalable throughput rate for data routing and protocol conversion A digital data storage unit, such as tape library, has a multiplicity of storage media slots, each storage media slot for receiving a storage media unit, a plurality of storage media units loaded in particular ones of the storage media slots, a plurality of data tra... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6722564 | Method, apparatus, and program for determining correct cartridge orientation in an automated tape library An automated media library gathers information about each readable cartridge label using a camera. From the label information, the orientation of the cartridge may be determined. For each cartridge with an unreadable label or no label, the media library attempts a g... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6661748 | Position control for plunge mechanism Methods and apparatus for controlling the position of a plunge mechanism which is mounted to a cartridge engaging assembly are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a cartridge engaging assembly includes a plunge mechanism which is mounted to the cartridge... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6625703 | Verifying primary and backup copies of vital information for a processing system employing a pseudo-fixed reference identifier Verification of a primary or backup copy of vital information of a processing system employs a pseudo-fixed reference identifier, defined as an identifier unlikely to change over the life of the system, and controls which copy of vital information is corr... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6568770 | Climatic cabinet A climatic cabinet with at least one door, having a storage station with at least one object storage device, which exhibits several storage locations arranged one on top of the other, and having a transport device for feeding objects to the object storage... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6510110 | Disk carrying apparatus and disk carrying method involving determining optimum stop position of disk carrier based on detected stopping state of disk carrier A disk-type recording medium is carried by a disk carrying section and accommodated into one of layered accommodation shelves of a disk accommodation section. A memory stores position information of the disk carrying section with respect to the accommodat... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6498771 | Data storage unit having plural removable magazines Data storage units (1) for storing a plurality of individual data storage media (12), the units comprising at least one removable magazine (9, 10) in which the individual data storage media (12) can be stored within the units (1), the magazines (9, 10) be... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6430121 | Disc changer capable of selecting a medium for playback again within a prescribed time While a certain information-recorded medium is reproduced by a reproduction processing means of a reproduction apparatus, when the information-recorded medium is designated again within a prescribed time by a user through an operating means, the control m... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6421305 | Personal music device with a graphical display for contextual information An audio system for playing recordings of audio programming includes a relatively large display device on which contextual information about the audio programming may be displayed. The contextual information is recorded on the same recording medium as the... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6404708 | Optical data-storage apparatus employing optical media with three-dimensional data pattern An optical data-storage medium comprises a base structure adapted to supply a peripheral surface with a medium adhered thereon, forming a data surface responsive to a light beam for providing optical signals corresponding to a plurality of data, wherein t... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400659 | Disk manufacturing apparatus A disk manufacturing apparatus has a recorder recording information on a blank disk-like recording medium placed on an extended recording tray provided on the recorder, in a state in which the recording tray is retracted into the recorder; a printer print... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6301204 | Jukebox with control system to retry transfer if misalignment A jukebox apparatus including a magazine, a drive unit, a carriage for conveying a disk between the magazine and the drive unit, and a temporary storage unit movable between a transfer position in front of the drive unit and an escape position. The carria... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6272078 | Method for updating a memory in a recorded media player A method and apparatus for updating a memory in a Compact Disc changer. Information identifying discs stored in a CD changer is stored in a memory. The memory is updated when a CD is loaded which does not have identifying features which are recognized by ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6044047 | Storing CD Segments for quick scanning in multi-CD players The present invention provides a multi-CD player with a quick scanning feature where the multi-CD player stores samples of a portion of each of the CD's into a fast access memory device such as a random access memory (RAM). The multi-CD player provides a ... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5936794 | Media library system using media management scheme for reducing recording medium access time A media library system capable of carrying out an access to each recording medium in very short time. A media exchange operation is controlled such that the storage cells of the storehouse are divided into at least two groups arranged in an order of avera... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5930226 | Storage medium storing plural data of plural types in reproduction order with identification information A recording apparatus generates a plurality of pieces of data to be recorded on a storage medium, and to be reproduced in a plurality of modes of reproduction; generates identification information indicating a reproduction mode; and writes the pieces of d... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5781369 | Magnetic tape apparatus with an auxiliary entry/exit mechanism A magnetic tape apparatus has an automatic loading mechanism for automatically loading a cartridge containing a recording medium. The magnetic tape apparatus includes, in addition to the automatic loading mechanism, a recording/reproducing unit, a magazin... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5774314 | Medium player with time-wise bar display of items In a consumer player or recorder operating with a linear medium such as a tape or disc there is a time analog display of a representation of various identifiable discrete information items such as sector, record, track. The display is length-proportional ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5657180 | Management information updating method and mass storage system employing the method Management information necessary to manage storage media in a mass storage system. A rotatable cell drum has a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of cell columns disposed in spaced circumferential relationship parallel to the axis of the drum and ... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5535190 | Driver system for an updatable optical storage-media The invention is a recording system for recording and playing back information stored on an updatable optical storage medium. In the optical storage medium digital data is permanently present in the form of replicated features, and an updatable capability... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5442500 | Cartridge library apparatus for handling a number of cartridges in one operation A cartridge library apparatus adapted to large number of cartridges in one operation, comprising magazines each of which can be loaded with the large number of cartridges, and a magazine rack in which the magazine is detachably accommodated. The magazine ... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5416914 | Management of removable media for multiple device types The removable media management system operates with a manual, an automated, or a combination of subsets of manual and automated library system to store and retrieve media cartridges for an associated plurality of drive elements. This system enables the us... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5412791 | Mass data storage library A mass data storage unit includes a plurality of first data storage modules that form a mass information storage library, a data directory archive for maintaining a directory of the information contained on each data storage module, and data record/playba... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5353179 | Auto-loading of tape cartridges Auto-loader apparatus for tape cartridges comprises a cartridge deck having an exposed or exposable supply hub; a device that moves a cartridge along a first, preferably linear, path from an initial position in a cartridge rack and moves the cartridge alo... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5343403 | Method for host-independent cartridge entry in an automated library system A method is disclosed for providing a host-independent cartridge entry mode in an automated tape cartridge library connected to more than one host computer. In host-independent cartridge entry mode, a message is broadcast by a library management unit to a... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5293284 | Cassette autochanger A cassette autochanger comprising a cassette container for containing a plurality of cassettes placed in a vertical posture, a reproducing unit for reproducing the signal recorded on the medium of one the cassettes placed therein in a horizontal posture, ... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5247406 | Tape cartridge magazine A magazine for handling a plurality of tape cartridges. The magazine includes a plurality of vertically spaced, parallel shelves having tapered front edges with notches formed therein for ease of tape cartridge insertion. The slots slant downward to preci... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5214768 | Mass data storage library A mass data storage unit includes a plurality of first data storage modules that form a mass information storage library, a data directory archive for maintaining a directory of the information contained on each data storage module, and data record/playba... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5182687 | Method and apparatus for aligning cartridges with a cartridge insertion slot The present invention provides an automated cartridge loader 10 of novel design for use with a cartridge drive 12. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sequentially loading cartridge loader 10 which allows the unatte... | 01/26/1993 |
