Patent ID: 8768510

Claim:
A method to position a robotic transporter in a tape library, the method comprising: providing said tape library comprising: a plurality of tape cartridges, a plurality of tape drives, a shelf system wherein said tape cartridges are disposed in an array, a central processing unit, said robotic transporter adapted to move to each location in said array; said library receiving a first move instruction to move a first tape cartridge from a first location in said shelf system to a first tape drive; moving said first tape cartridge from said first location in said shelf system to said first tape drive via said robotic transporter; transferring said first tape cartridge to said first tape drive via said robotic transporter; said central processing unit evaluating historical move instructions retained in non-tansitory memory of at least two previous move instructions that were completed before said first move instruction; from said historical move instructions, predicting that a second move instruction will select a second tape cartridge from a second location in said central processing unit; and positioning said robotic transporter to said second location after said transferring step, but before receiving said second move instruction.