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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:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2010
Applicants:
Thomas R. Forrer, Jr., Round Rock, TX (US);
Jason E. Moore, Austin, TX (US);
Abel E. Zuzuarregui, Paige, TX (US);
Inventors:
Thomas R. Forrer, Jr., Round Rock, TX (US);
Jason E. Moore, Austin, TX (US);
Abel E. Zuzuarregui, Paige, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system where a hardware platform such as a disk drive is formatted to the largest block length it is desired to read from or write to. Using commands, data can be accessed from the drive in any block length that is equal to or less than the formatted block length.