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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. 30, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Linden A. deCarmo, Plantation, FL (US);
Assignee:
Oak Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/781 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/781 ;
Abstract
A multi-block, read-ahead technique permits a DVD player to read and cache DVD data from a DVD source in response to navigation packs (NAV-PCKs) of individual VOBUs to avoid crossing title boundaries, Each VOBU has a NAV-PCK, which specifies the number of blocks in that VOBU. This information can guide the DVD player in performing read-ahead operations aligned to VOBUs, i.e., reading and caching data blocks separately for individual VOBUs. The invention takes advantage of the fact that data blocks within individual VOBUs do not cross title boundaries, and so read-ahead operations aligned to VOBUs avoid reading blocks that cross title boundaries.