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Patent No.:

US 7174414 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2007

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2003
Applicants:

Tung Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);

Bipin V. Gami, Northridge, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tung Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);

Bipin V. Gami, Northridge, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of mapping logical track numbers to a collection of physical tracks on at least two disk surfaces within a disk drive. The method further includes accessing logical tracks at assigned physical tracks. The invention includes making disk drives using the mapping of logical tracks to physical tracks and those disk drives as a product of that manufacturing process. The invention also includes program systems implementing the mapping of logical tracks to physical tracks within the disk drive and disk drives implementing the method of assigning logical tracks to physical tracks and/or accessing logical tracks based upon the physical track assignment.


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Nguyen, Tung. (2007). Method and apparatus mapping logical tracks in a disk drive for optimizing track seek time (U.S. Patent No. 7174414). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7174414

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