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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:
Feb. 06, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2003
Applicant:
Gregory L. Silvus, Boulder, CO (US);
Inventor:
Gregory L. Silvus, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/47 (2006.01); H03M 7/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for communicating data is provided. The data is encoded in accordance with a run length limited (RLL) code. A seed is appended to the RLL encoded data. The seed can be used to alter the error correction code (ECC) parity to meet an RLL constraint.