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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. 01, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2001
Applicants:
Catharine Anne Maple, Bristol, GB;
Jonathan Peter Buckingham, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Catharine Anne Maple, Bristol, GB;
Jonathan Peter Buckingham, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B005/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is disclosed a method of accurately locating an append point along a length of linear tape data storage medium, comprising entering a search mode searching for an absolute code word quad set number, and having found the absolute code word quad set number, entering an interrupt mode for control of tape transport, followed by a write mode to write data at a data set containing the absolute code word quad set number.