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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. 12, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Albert Monroe, Longmont, CO (US);
Scott E. Burton, Westminster, CO (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/18 (2006.01); G11B 5/012 (2006.01); G11B 20/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1889 (2013.01); G11B 5/012 (2013.01); G11B 2020/10898 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for improving read failure tolerance during read-modify-write operations of data storage systems accommodating a host that uses a logical sector of a size smaller than the physical sector size of the data storage system. In one embodiment, the data storage system can perform sector indirection in response to a read error during a read-modify-write command.