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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:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Manabu Sasaki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Yasushi Fukuda, Odawara, JP;
Kazuo Shigematsu, Yoshikawa, JP;
Masahiko Takahashi, Yamanashi, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
Abstract
In an apparatus and method for information storage and retrieval, information is retrieved from the storage apparatus in a manner which includes varying an operational parameter of the storage apparatus according to a property of the information being retrieved. In the same apparatus and method, information is stored onto the storage apparatus in a manner which includes varying an operational parameter of the storage apparatus according to a property of the information to be stored. In this way, the energy consumption of the storage apparatus can be kept low.