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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:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Martin D Gray, La Jolla, CA (US);
Assignee:
Overland Data, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 42 ; 371 371 ; 371 4014 ; 341 58 ; 341 59 ;
Abstract
A variable rate bit inserter is provided which efficiently encodes data prior to writing to a magnetic storage media. In a preferred embodiment, the bit insertion technique monitors the phase and amplitude content of the data stream and inserts appropriate bit patterns to ensure that phase and amplitude lock are maintained on the data stream for reading and decoding purposes.