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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7633701 | Method and system for increasing recording format reliability for limited media space in a tape drive system A method for increasing recording format reliability in a tape drive system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a default media information region (MIR) on a media, wherein the default MIR includes MIR information divided into segments, ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7633700 | Method and system for contiguously appending data onto media in a tape drive system A method for contiguously appending data onto media in a tape drive system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes reading existing data recorded on a media, determining an append point on the media, and contiguously appending new data on the media star... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7440212 | Method and systems for a highly error tolerant tape format Described herein are media drives for writing information to a media (e.g., a tape media), systems for storing information on a storage medium, and methods of writing information to a media. The devices, systems and methods described herein are error tolerant in tha... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7408731 | Track allocation method of disk drive Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to methods wherein a capacity of a disk drive is increased by partially overwriting adjacent tracks to shorten the track width and collectively updating a data update unit made up of a plurality of tracks, ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401250 | Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method and apparatus of managing data using the information A recording medium for storing start position information for each zone, a method of managing data using the information, and an apparatus for recording the information and controlling recording and reproduction of data based on the recorded information. In a disc h... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398000 | Digital video segment identification An entertainment system, having a capability to playback a stored digital video record that includes frames of video data received from a television broadcast system, approximates ranges of frames in a digital video record that are either commercials or non-commerci... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398006 | Disc access processor processing a result of accessing a disc and method thereof Prior to recording, a difference between a disc's temporal, maximum recordable length and a temporal length having been consumed by recording data is calculated. A scale is determined to allow a length of a period of a preprogrammed recording to be relatively matche... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7370166 | Secure portable storage device In one embodiment of the present invention, a secure storage system includes a removable storage device having a secure storage area for storage of secure data and a public storage area and device port for coupling the removable storage device to a host, the removab... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7340581 | Method of writing data to non-volatile memory According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a controller connected to a non-volatile memory and including a volatile memory, wherein the controller maintains lists in volatile memory of blocks in the non-volatile memory allocated for storage of l... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7313726 | Operating system and data protection The disclosed systems and methods provide for the protection of protected memory, for example, a hard disk, in a computer system. The systems and methods are configured to re-direct read and write access commands from locations in the protected memory to alternative... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7275686 | Electronic equipment point-of-sale activation to avoid theft In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an electronic device is displayed for purchase by a user and includes a controller and a protected area for storing a key and a bar code associated with and for identifying the device including a password un... | 10/02/2007 |
| RE39809 | Hard sectoring circuit and method for a rotating disk data storage device An apparatus for providing sector location pulses to a controller of a rotating disk data storage device having a counter clocked in proportion to the disk rotation rate and an accumulator for accumulating times to sectors on the disk. A comparator connected to the ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263591 | Increasing the memory performance of flash memory devices by writing sectors simultaneously to multiple flash memory devices In one embodiment of the present invention, a memory storage system for storing information organized in sectors within a nonvolatile memory bank is disclosed. The memory bank is defined by sector storage locations spanning across one or more rows of a nonvolatile m... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260771 | Internet-based system for multimedia meeting minutes A method for creating multimedia meeting minutes is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method receives notations from a user. As each notation is received, context information is recorded with the notation. The context information is used to select pertinent portions ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255908 | Magnetic tape A magnetic tape (1) characterized by having a backcoating layer (5) which comprises a binder and fine particles having been dispersed in the binder and being capable of irreversibly changing in color on oxidation reaction, and has a sufficient number o... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254724 | Power management system According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a power management system for use in a computer system having a memory system incorporating a non-volatile memory and a controller which presents the logical characteristics of a disc storage de... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254672 | Translation device driver for translating between disk device driver and tape device driver commands A translation device driver apparatus and method are disclosed. A first type of request is received from a disk-based file system to access a first type of storage device. The first type of storage device permits direct access reads and writes and implements update-... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246139 | File system for enabling the restoration of a deffective file In the invention it is assumed that in a data recording operation, when the data recording is initiated, the data recording module writes the initial value of the file size in the new file attribute area of the directory, and when the data recording is ended, the da... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242546 | Determining a location based on a cyclic bit sequence containing consecutively-placed identical bit-groups A location within a cycle is determined by reading a portion of a cyclic bit sequence, the bit sequence containing several interspersed bit-group sets that each contain a plurality of series that each consist of several consecutively-placed identical bit-groups. On ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239232 | Temperature sensing device for rotatably moving parts and temperature detection method therefor A magnetic temperature sensing device for rotatably moving parts, of the type including at least a magnetic field source element associated to the rotatably moving part and a magnetic field sensing element associated with a fixed part to measure parameters of a magn... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234227 | Methods for centering disks in a magnetic disk assembly An apparatus and a method are provided to facilitate building of a disk stack for inclusion in a magnetic disk drive. A spindle is provided which comprises first and second disk contacts. A mechanism is provided to bias an inner diameter of a stack of plural disks t... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231573 | Delay management system A delay management system in a computer system includes a delay manager and a first storage element that stores a delay time. The delay manager is configured to receive a series of delay values and respond to each delay value in the series of delay values by providi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224545 | Methods and systems for overwrite protected storage media According to one aspect of the invention, methods and systems for operating a magnetic storage media drive to perform read/write operations to magnetic storage media in an overwrite protected mode are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving a write req... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221778 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus The present invention allows detection of an exposure time of an image that has already been captured. A motion detector 102 detects an amount of inter-frame movement of a foreground object in a designated frame based on the designated frame and a frame prece... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221985 | On-screen calibration system and operating method thereof An on-screen calibration system for disc drives and the operating method thereof. The calibration system includes an autocollimator detecting the inclined angle of the stage of a disc drive. A control module is connected to the on-screen display module and a bar cod... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221528 | Magnetic alignment marking of hard disks Magnetic alignment marks are recorded on a recording surface of a magnetic hard disk to mark the location where the disk is abutted against the hub of the spindle of a multiple-disk servo-writer. The alignment marks for each recording surface may be different so as ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221540 | Recording medium cartridge The recording medium cartridge accommodates a recording medium such as a magnetic tape, a optical and/or magnetic disk, or the like in a cartridge body having an upper half and a lower half. A non-contact type memory device storing information, for example, given wh... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215580 | Non-volatile memory control According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method and apparatus for use in a memory system having a non-volatile memory and a controller for limiting the number of non-volatile memory arrays from a plurality of available arrays accessed... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209308 | Communication apparatus communicating with recording medium memory and recording medium drive apparatus A system using a tape cassette (1) with a memory (4) as a recording medium is provided. In the memory (4) provided in the tape cassette (1) used in the system, there is formed a storage area where instruction/object information in which a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209306 | Recording medium, recording method, and recording/reproducing device As a tape recording format, tracks are formed by a succession of block units, and a data unit called a group is formed by data of size equivalent to a predetermined plurality of tracks. Using this format, a base group number indicating the group to which the current... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203415 | Recording, reproducing, and recording/reproducing apparatuses for recording input data in a recording medium capable of non-linear access and methods therefor In recording, reproducing, and recording/reproducing apparatuses and methods thereof, while endlessly-recording first data, desired second data can be easily stored. The apparatuses include a recording mechanism for endlessly-recording the first data in a recording ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193805 | Flying-type disk drive slider with micropad A slider (2′) with a reduced fly height is disclosed. The slider includes a small micropad (66) on the lower surface (22′) of the slider (2′). A sensor region (62) of a head (61) that is carried by the slider (2... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194186 | Flexible marking of recording data by a recording unit The invention enables a recorder to mark a recording as an event is being recorded. The invention can enable the specification of a mark so that the mark is associated with recording data obtained at a time other than the time at which the mark is specified (“non-... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185208 | Data processing In one embodiment of the present invention, there is disclosed a reversible method of processing data comprising the data being encrypted before being written to a non-volatile memory wherein the data cannot be accessed without decryption in the case of a direct phy... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7174083 | Systems and methods for using structured representations to index recordings of activity The systems and methods of this invention use an index and digital audio and/or video recordings of an activity to provide access to recently recorded material. For example, users initiate audio and/or video recordings. An index, e.g., an agenda, outlines the struct... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167326 | Tape drive that supports update-in-place A method in a data processing system is disclosed for permitting update-in-place in a tape drive. Data in a particular record in a tape that is mounted on the tape drive is modified. The particular record is located in a particular one of multiple different tracks i... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7153366 | Systems and method for forming a servo pattern on a magnetic tape The systems, methods and products of the invention include systems and methods for manufacturing servo tracks on a magnetic tape. In one aspect, the invention includes systems for manufacturing magnetic tapes having servo tracks thereon wherein the servo tracks are ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7143232 | Method, system, and program for maintaining a directory for data written to a storage medium Provided are a method, system, and program for encoding data onto a storage medium. Host data is received and a plurality of device blocks are generated to include the host data. A directory is generated including entries for physical locations on the storage medium... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139148 | Recording medium, recording method, and recording apparatus When the data recording is performed on a magnetic tape in various recording densities, information relating to the recording density (recording-density related information) is recorded in the data recorded on the magnetic tape. Accordingly, recording and reproducti... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133228 | Using data compression to achieve lower linear bit densities on a storage medium Method and apparatus for transferring data to and from a data storage medium, such as a rotatable disc in a data storage device. The medium includes a data sector field with a physical length sufficient to store a first data block at a first write frequency. A compr... | 11/07/2006 |
