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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:
Jul. 31, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2003
Applicant:
Larry Lynn Williams, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventor:
Larry Lynn Williams, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands BV, Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage device such as a disk drive is provided with a lateral storage director. The lateral storage director is capable of self-assessing the status of the storage device. The lateral storage director also enables one storage device to transfer data files to another storage device over a communications link without the supervision of a host computer.