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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:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.C., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/518 ; G11B 5/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/518 ; G11B 5/09 ;
Abstract
A tape is associated with a semiconductor memory storing the end position of the last data of a data set recorded on the tape. The end location is stored in the memory before the last data are written to the tape. In a further operation mode, data identifying the location of one or plural successfully written data sets which have already been written to the tape are stored in the memory while user data are written to the tape.