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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2019
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brian Edward Mastenbrook, Fremont, CA (US);
Matthew Harris Klapman, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0622 (2013.01); G06F 3/0638 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed here is a data storage device comprising a non-transitory storage medium configured to store user content data, a data port configured to transfer the user content data between the storage medium and a host computer system over a data channel, and a controller. The controller is configured to select one of multiple file system formats, format the storage medium by creating a file system in accordance with the selected file system format on the storage medium, and register with the host computer system as a block data storage device.