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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. 25, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dan Levin, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Tom Carhart, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Matthew Self, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Digital Networks North America, Inc, Santa Clara, US;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/85 ; H04N 5/781 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/85 ; H04N 5/781 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus providing for field upgrade of storage capacity in a recording device. The recording device is manufactured with a storage unit having a storage capacity of X (where X may be, for example, 5 GB). Access to the full storage capacity of the storage unit is limited at the time of manufacture and a user of the device may upgrade the device to gain access to additional storage capacity of the storage unit.