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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:
Oct. 27, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steve Rabin, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter L Skeggs, Cardiff, CA (US);
Assignee:
Iomega Corporation, Roy, UT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341 51 ; 395275 ;
Abstract
A controller has a data compression unit and error correcting code unit which share a single common random access memory. The controller is connected between a host computer and a peripheral device such as a tape drive. A second order search for strings of data bytes is enabled or disabled to change the compression ratio, data throughput, and memory bandwidth constraints.