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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:
Aug. 29, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen M Adams, Sachse, TX (US);
Lionel C Shih, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignees:
E-Systems, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Ampex Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 48 ; 360 49 ; 360 721 ; 360 722 ;
Abstract
There is described an information area of a system zone and a method for formatting a length of magnetic tape with a plurality of information areas containing volume format information for the entire tape volume. The information area contains an area for storing volume format parameters and an area for storing a volume format table generated from the volume format parameters.