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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. 24, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2004
Applicant:
Jong IN Shin, Kyonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Jong In Shin, Kyonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage medium and method for managing a defective area of the storage medium are provided. The method includes (A) identifying a defective area found during recording or reproducing of data; (B) writing the data intended for the defective area in any part of a user area that is unused, wherein the storage medium is without any pre-designated spare area so that the entire user area corresponds to an entire data area of the storage medium; and (C) writing positional information about the defective area in the user area.