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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:
Apr. 17, 1990
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Carl Bonke, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Aurelio Cruz, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364900 ; 3649521 ; 3649472 ; 3649393 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a method and architecture for reading data from a track on a data disk with no latency in initiation of the data transfer due to sector alignment. Sector identification bytes are compared for track identification while sector number is written for storage in a table lookup with a buffer address for storage of the data.