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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:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1998
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 ...
714769 ; 714701 ; 714 779 ;
Abstract
A digital data recording channel which uses variable rate encoding. The encoder monitors an input bit stream for sequences associated with selected readback characteristics, and inserts one or more bits where desirable to improve the characteristics of the stored bit stream.