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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2001
Raffi Codilian, Irvine, CA (US);
Anil Sareen, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Thomas D. Hanan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Raffi Codilian, Irvine, CA (US);
Anil Sareen, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Thomas D. Hanan, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention may be embodied in a method for operating a disk drive in a mobile device to optimize power usage based on an application category. The mobile device may be a hand held computing device such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a mobile terminal such as a cellular telephone. A technique of the invention may spin down the disk drive after an adjustable delay time interval that is set based on an application category associated with a most recent data transfer command.