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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:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ; G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ; G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A medium-exchangeable storage device can be configured to serve as the underlying storage medium for file system and as a data backup medium. A technique is described which allows a medium-exchangeable storage device to services as a file system and as a backup device.