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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:
Jan. 18, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
David B Jeppson, Livermore, CA (US);
Norman H Wulferdinger, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Bryan J Mee, San Jose, CA (US);
William N Thanos, San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph C Liu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Quantum Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395425 ; 395275 ; 395725 ; 364D / ; 360 69 ;
Abstract
A method is provided for allocating digital processing activities of an embedded microcontroller within a disk drive between repetitive periodic digital servo loop service routines synchronized to rotation of a data storage disk of the drive and irregularly occurring host service routines supporting a high level, digital interface to a host computing environment. The new method comprises the steps of: