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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:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
May. 24, 2001
Gayle L. Noble, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Rick S. Shimizu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason P. Hanlon, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the invention include a method and apparatus to optimize the location of data on a disc drive storage system by optimizing the physical location of the file to allow the read ahead memory cache to operate more efficiently. In one aspect, the disc drive uses a reserved area on the media to hold files during the optimization process. In another aspect, the drive includes an optimization table that stores optimized file access data to further enhance the drive performance.
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