BCA writer serialization management

• US 7,191,442 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2001
• Issued: 03/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Research Investment Network Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Research Investment Network Incorporated
• Inventors: Collart, Todd R., Lamkin, Allan B., Blair, Jeff G.
• Primary Examiner(s): An, Meng-Al T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Truong, Camquy
• Application Number:
  US10/003,704
• Publication Number:
  US 20020169520A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,960 Days
• Field of Search: 709/234, 709/229, 718/101, 718/100, 711/158
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/0013 wherein the measure concerns not the entire record carrier, but a specific physical or logical area of one or more record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00876 wherein physical copy protection means are attached to the medium, e.g. holograms, sensors, or additional semiconductor circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/268 Post-production operations, e.g. initialising phase-change recording layers, checking for defects investigating the presence of flaws or contamination in optical discs G01N21/9506

Abstract

A serialization management system consists of a job control host for assigning serial numbers to storage media, and for generating a job; a replication facility host communicatively coupled to the job control host, wherein the job control host communicates the job to the replication facility host; and a serialization writer communicatively coupled to the replication facility host, wherein the replication facility host controls the serialization writer in response to the job, and communicates status information to the job control host. In another embodiment, the invention can be characterized as method for operating the serialization management system.

Claims

1. A serialization management system comprising:

a job control host for assigning a serial number to a storage media, for updating information of the media from a database in a server, and for generating a job wherein batch data being a function of the job;

a replication facility host communicatively coupled to the job control host, wherein the job control host communicates the job to the replication facility host; and

a serialization writer communicatively coupled to the replication facility host, wherein the replication facility host controls the serialization writer in response to the job, and communicates status information to the job control host, wherein the serialization writer writes a first serialization onto a first side of the media in response to the batch data, and write a second serialization onto a second side of the media in response to the batch data.

2. The serialization management system of claim 1 wherein the serialization writer communicates a batch status to the replication facility host from time to time.

3. The serialization management system of claim 2 wherein the serialization writer communicates the batch status to the replication facility upon completion of the batch.

4. A serialization management system comprising:

a job control host for assigning serial numbers to storage media, for updating a database in a server, and for generating a job;

a replication facility host communicatively coupled to the job control host, wherein the job control host communicates the job to the replication facility host;

a serialization writer communicatively coupled to the replication facility host, wherein the replication facility host controls the serialization writer in response to the job, and communicates status information to the job control host;

a serialization writer console coupled to the serialization writer, the serialization writer console prompting the replication facility host for a batch having batch data by communicating a batch request to the replication facility host, the batch being initiated at the replication facility host and the job being initiated at the job control host;

wherein the replication facility host communicates to the serialization writer, in response to the batch request to generate batch data, the batch data being generated by the replication facility host as a function of the job; and

a replication facility console communicatively coupled to the replication facility host for receiving a job complete indicia, and for communicating the job complete indicia to the replication facility host;

wherein the replication facility host generates a job complete status in response to the job complete indicia, and further wherein the replication facility host communicates the job complete status to the job control host.

5. The serialization management system of claim 4 wherein the job control host generates a confirmation in response to the job complete status, and communicates a confirmation to the replication facility host in response thereto, the replication facility host deleting the job in response to the confirmation.

6. The serialization management system of claim 5 wherein the job control hosts exports the job in response to receipt of the job complete status.

7. A serialization management method comprising:

assigning a serial number to a storage media in a job control host;

updating information of the media from a database in a server;

generating a job in the job control host wherein batch data is a function of the job;

communicating the job to a replication facility host;

controlling a serialization writer in response to the job;

communicating status information to the job control host;

prompting the replication facility host for a batch having batch data by communicating a batch request to the replication facility host, the batch being initiated at the replication facility host and the job being initiated at the job control host;

generating batch data at the replication facility host as a function of the job;

communicating to the serialization writer, in response to the batch request, to generate the batch data; and

writing serialization onto media with the serialization writer in response to the batch data, wherein writing comprises writing a first serialization onto a first side of the media in response to the batch data, and writing a second serialization onto a second side of the media in response to the batch data.

8. The serialization management method of claim 7 further comprising:

communicating a batch status to the replication facility host from time to time.

9. The serialization management method of claim 8 further comprising:

communicating the batch status to the replication facility upon completion of the batch.

10. A serialization management method comprising:

assigning a serial number to a storage media in a job control host;

updating information of the media from a database in a server;

generating a job in the job control host wherein batch data is a function of the job;

communicating the job to a replication facility host;

controlling a serialization writer in response to the job;

communicating status information to the job control host;

prompting the replication facility host for a batch having batch data by communicating a batch request to the replication facility host, the batch being initiated at the replication facility host and the job being initiated at the job control host;

generating batch data at the replication facility host as a function of the job;

communicating to the serialization writer, in response to the batch request, to generate the batch data;

writing serialization onto media with the serialization writer in response to the batch data;

receiving a job complete indicia at a replication facility console;

communicating the job complete indicia to the replication facility host;

generating a job complete status in the replication facility host in response to the job complete indicia; and

communicating the job complete status to the job control host.

11. The serialization management method of claim 10 comprising:

generating a confirmation in response to the job complete status;

communicating the confirmation to the replication facility host in response thereto; and

deleting the job at the replication facility host in response to the confirmation.

12. The serialization management method of claim 11 further comprising:

exporting the job in response to receipt of the job complete status.