Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – General processing of a digital signal – Data in specific format
Reexamination Certificate
2011-02-01
2011-02-01
Negrón, Daniell L (Department: 2627)
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
General processing of a digital signal
Data in specific format
C360S051000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07880990
ABSTRACT:
Patterned-media magnetic recording disks are made from a master template that has nondata regions that contain a pattern of one or more discrete nondata islands and discrete gaps, with the pattern representing a scrambled number. All disks made from the master template, or from replica molds made from the master, will have the same patterns. When the disks are DC-magnetized so that all the nondata islands are magnetized in the same direction, these patterns will include one or more of discrete magnetized nondata islands and discrete nonmagnetic gaps that are scrambled in a pseudo-random manner. During operation of the disk drive the patterns are detected by the read head and interpreted within the disk drive using knowledge of the pseudo-random scrambling function, so that reading and writing of data can occur in the conventional manner. If the disks are copied in an attempt to replicate the master template, the resulting disks will be inoperable in a disk drive because of the scrambling.
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Bandic Zvonimir Z.
Campello de Souza Jorge
Guyot Cyril
Wilson Bruce Alexander
Berthold Thomas R.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Netherlands B.V.
Negrón Daniell L
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