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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. 20, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
David B. Anderson, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 2/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 2/900 ;
Abstract
The present invention is drawn to a data storage device which includes data stored thereon as objects. An object has a plurality of portions including a data portion containing data and an object location portion containing object location information associated with the object. The present invention can be implemented simply as a data structure, in a disc drive, or as a method of storing information on a disc drive or other data storage device.