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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:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2007
Applicant:
Joseph Sheredy, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Joseph Sheredy, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., , BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method are disclosed for correcting errors in data obtained from read operations on a storage medium. Errors that occur in a minority of read operations for the data are corrected by a voting technique. The data may then be processed with error correcting code to correct errors that occur in a majority of read operations.