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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:
Nov. 24, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 34 ;
Abstract
An optical disk changer system including an optical disk changer with magazines for storage. The disk changer can insert/draw optical disks in each magazine and manages data on a set of optical disks singularly, or by a plurality of optical disks, as a volume having a series of logical addresses. Volume management means identifies unused magazines storing unused optical disks. Volume creation information means receives data on the number of optical disks or magazines required to create the volume. Volume creation management means allows identification of the storage position information of unused optical disks to create a volume including optical disks from the volume creation information input means.