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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. 23, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yitzhak Birk, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358342 ;
Abstract
A track-pairing technique for use in recording and retrieving video data by alternating between a pair of tracks when recording and retrieving data segments of a data stream, a video server or recording disk is able to take advantage of zone bit recording when recording, yet data transfer rate upon retrieval is independent of track location. As a result, guaranteed throughput is substantially improved and the number of data streams which can be simultaneously sourced increases. The track-pairing technique can be embodied in a video server, a recording disk, a data layout method, or a data retrieval method.