Patent ID: 11897696
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 16:
17. A system comprising:
one or more computing devices configured to implement a storage controller for a room-scale data storage library,
wherein the storage controller is configured to:
receive location information for respective data storage devices positioned on movable shelves of the room-scale data storage library, wherein for a given data storage device, the location information comprises:
a scanned or detected identifier or metadata for the given data storage device; and
an associated shelf position in a given one of the movable shelves where the given data storage device with the scanned or detected identifier or metadata is positioned;

issue instructions to one or more shelf robots of the room-scale data storage library to move a given movable shelf comprising a given data storage device, that is to be accessed, to a drive bay of the room-scale data storage library; and
issue instructions to a robotic mechanism associated with the drive bay to retrieve the given data storage device from the given movable shelf and insert the given data storage device in a drive of the drive bay.