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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:
Jun. 05, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2003
Applicant:
Keith Gary Boyer, Broomfield, CO (US);
Inventor:
Keith Gary Boyer, Broomfield, CO (US);
Assignee:
Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A Viterbi decoder is used to provide erasure information to a symbol based decoder. In a preferred embodiment, a Viterbi decoder is used to provide either minimum distance path metric information or path probability information, which is summed over a symbol window to derive erasure information for the symbol based decoder.