ClassID:

198915

G11B2020/1232 - CPC Classification

Classification description:

Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing; Circuits therefor; Digital recording or reproducing; Formatting, e.g. arrangement of data block or words on the record carriers on discs wherein the formatting concerns a specific area of the disc sector, i.e. the minimal addressable physical data unit

Sub-classes:
Recent Application in this class:
#1
20250095684
2025-03-20

MAGNETIC DISK APPARATUS AND METHOD

#2
20240296869
2024-09-05

Magnetic disk device

#3
20220301590
2022-09-22

Magnetic disk device

#4
20210398559
2021-12-23

Magnetic disk device and read processing method

#5
20200043525
2020-02-06

Information processing apparatus

#6
20190295595
2019-09-26

Disk device and data management method

#7
20190278710
2019-09-12

Shingled magnetic recording drive that updates media cache data in-place

#8
20180261248
2018-09-13

Method of performing read/write process on recording medium, parameter adjustment method, storage device, computer system, and storage medium employing the methods

#9
20170263275
2017-09-14

Magnetic disk device and correction method of head position

#10
20170206927
2017-07-20

Interlaced magnetic recording super parity

#11
20170200469
2017-07-13

Band rewrite optimization

#12
20170154650
2017-06-01

Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program

#13
20170047092
2017-02-16

Method of performing read/write process on recording medium, parameter adjustment method, storage device, computer system, and storage medium employing the methods

#14
20160357452
2016-12-08

Sector translation layer for hard disk drives

#15
20160350185
2016-12-01

Flexible super block sizing for failed sector recovery

#16
20160293191
2016-10-06

Writing spirals with accurate slope on a disk drive media

#17
20160240216
2016-08-18

Optimized recording condition for heat-assisted magnetic recording

#18
20160111126
2016-04-21

Magnetic disk apparatus and method for accessing data sector

#19
20150262598
2015-09-17

Systems and methods for head position estimation

#20
20150255113
2015-09-10

Online iteration resource allocation for large sector format drive

#21
20150098312
2015-04-09

Method for sensing the physically-recordable maximum capacity of a disc

#22
20150077876
2015-03-19

Disk drive with different data sector integrated preambles in adjacent data tracks

#23
20150077875
2015-03-19

Disk drive with different synchronization fields and synchronization marks in the data sector preambles in adjacent data tracks

#24
20150043099
2015-02-12

Method for generating address data and disk storage apparatus

#25
20140327982
2014-11-06

Data storage device and method for generating a reference clock signal for data storage device

#26
20140285916
2014-09-25

Read channel throughput management

#27
20140281818
2014-09-18

Method for format savings in coherently written fragmented sectors

#28
20130222939
2013-08-29

Read channel throughput management

#29
20130042163
2013-02-14

DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR DRIVING READING OPERATION OF OPTICAL DRIVE AND METHOD FOR READING INFORMATION FROM OPTICAL DATA STORAGE MEDIUM

#30
20130021689
2013-01-24

Storage media inter-track interference cancellation

#31
20120303975
2012-11-29

Data conversion method on storage medium, apparatus and program

#32
20120182643
2012-07-19

Systems and methods for reduced format data processing

#33
20120173950
2012-07-05

Systems and methods for efficient data storage

#34
20120166704
2012-06-28

Address generating and detecting method and reproducing and recording apparatus

#35
20120092975
2012-04-19

Method of performing read/write process on recording medium, parameter adjustment method, storage device, computer system, and storage medium employing the methods

#36
20120063284
2012-03-15

Systems and methods for track to track phase alignment

#37
20120063024
2012-03-15

Systems and methods for handling sector gaps in inter-track interference compensation

#38
20120063023
2012-03-15

Systems and methods for block-wise inter-track interference compensation

#39
20120063022
2012-03-15

Systems and methods for inter-track interference compensation

#40
20120023275
2012-01-26

DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD

#41
20120008474
2012-01-12

Recording medium, recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus

#42
20110249356
2011-10-13

DISK STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING DATA

#43
20110249354
2011-10-13

DISK STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SERVO CONTROLLING

#44
20110246856
2011-10-06

Systems and methods for efficient data storage

#45
20110122749
2011-05-26

OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC DRIVE, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

#46
20110107186
2011-05-05

Method, apparatus, and storage medium for processing write defect in data storage apparatus

#47
20110038237
2011-02-17

OPTICAL DISC AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS FORMAT

#48
20110026852
2011-02-03

Disk sector allocation for high performance access to images

#49
20110019526
2011-01-27

Information processing apparatus, control method for controlling information processing apparatus, control program of information processing apparatus, and storage medium storing control program of information processing apparatus therein

#50
20110002201
2011-01-06

Optical disc, optical disc drive, optical disc recording/reproducing method, and integrated circuit

#51
20100306624
2010-12-02

Recording and/or reproducing method, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium storing program for performing the method

#52
20100293430
2010-11-18

Driving circuit for driving reading operation of optical drive and method for reading information from optical data storage medium

#53
20100271727
2010-10-28

Method and apparatus for preserving data of a storage device

#54
20100254240
2010-10-07

PLL control device and reproduction apparatus with linking portion control

#55
20100238577
2010-09-23

Method and apparatus for measuring phase shift in a disk drive having bit-patterned media

#56
20100226219
2010-09-09

Information recording apparatus, information recording method and integrated circuit

#57
20100215344
2010-08-26

Transport stream processing device, and associated methodology of generating and aligning source data packets in a physical data structure

#58
20100214885
2010-08-26

Address generating and detecting method and reproducing and recording apparatus

#59
20100214682
2010-08-26

Disk drive returning dummy data to a host when reading an unwritten data sector

#60
20100202276
2010-08-12

Recording medium, address generating and detection method, and reproduction and recording apparatus

#61
20100165497
2010-07-01

STORAGE APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD

#62
20100161917
2010-06-24

Automatic track description generator

#63
20100149940
2010-06-17

CLOCK SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE

#64
20100123969
2010-05-20

INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL CIRCUIT

#65
20100098390
2010-04-22

Information distributing method, information recording method, information reproducing method, and information recording medium

#66
20100067871
2010-03-18

Information recording apparatus, information recording method, information record medium, information reproducing apparatus, information reproducing method, information transmitting apparatus, and information transmitting method

#67
20100058141
2010-03-04

STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL DEVICE

#68
20090296539
2009-12-03

Information recording apparatus and method, computer program

#69
20090290253
2009-11-26

Servo information correcting method

#70
20090268597
2009-10-29

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING OPTICAL INFORMATION, AND OPTICAL DISK

#71
20090265562
2009-10-22

DATA CONVERSION METHOD ON STORAGE MEDIUM, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

#72
20090257331
2009-10-15

Reproduction data recording methods

#73
20090201780
2009-08-13

Optical disc, optical disc recording apparatus, and optical disc recording method

#74
20090180361
2009-07-16

Optical disc, optical disc drive, optical disc recording/reproducing method, and integrated circuit

#75
20090168640
2009-07-02

Optical disc and physical address format

#76
20090141619
2009-06-04

System and method for enabling efficient small writes to worm storage

#77
20090122441
2009-05-14

Bit patterned magnetic media data format

#78
20090103418
2009-04-23

OPTICAL DISK MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISK DRIVE

#79
20090021853
2009-01-22

Hard disk drive with divided data sectors and hard disk drive controller for controlling the same

#80
20090002863
2009-01-01

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MONITORING DATA OPERATIONS AT A DATA STORAGE DEVICE

#81
20080310289
2008-12-18

Data recording/reproduction for write-once discs

#82
20080279073
2008-11-13

Information recording medium, information recording method and information recording/reproduction system

#83
20080273446
2008-11-06

Recording medium, information recording and reproducing method, and recording and reproducing apparatus

#84
20080266692
2008-10-30

MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND DATA WRITING METHOD THEREOF

#85
20080259418
2008-10-23

Delete recycling of holographic data storage

#86
20080247302
2008-10-09

RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCTION METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS

#87
20080247299
2008-10-09

Recording medium, recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus

#88
20080239886
2008-10-02

Apparatus, method and computer program for processing information

#89
20080239534
2008-10-02

Encryption methods for patterned media watermarking

#90
20080212438
2008-09-04

Recording medium, recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus

#91
20080205237
2008-08-28

Recording medium, recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus

#92
20080205222
2008-08-28

Read-only recording medium and reproducing method thereof

#93
20080198737
2008-08-21

METHOD OF RECORDING DATA TO AN INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM

#94
20080198736
2008-08-21

Method of recording data to an information recording medium

#95
20080198735
2008-08-21

Method of recording data to an information recording medium

#96
20080198734
2008-08-21

METHOD OF RECORDING DATA TO AN INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM

#97
20080198716
2008-08-21

Method of recording data to an information recording medium

#98
20080155344
2008-06-26

Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method of managing data using the information

#99
20080151740
2008-06-26

Method for data storage protection and encryption

#100
20080151721
2008-06-26

Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method of managing data using the information

#101
20080145035
2008-06-19

Recording control apparatus and recording control method

#102
20080144479
2008-06-19

OPTICAL DISC AND ITS INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD AND APPARATUS

#103
20080130426
2008-06-05

Multi-layered optical recording medium, address assignment method for multi-layered optical recording medium, apparatus and method of reproducing and method of recording

#104
20080120519
2008-05-22

Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method and apparatus of managing data using the information

#105
20080117794
2008-05-22

INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS

#106
20080112287
2008-05-15

OPTICAL DISK AND OPTICAL DISK DRIVE DEVICE

#107
20080112285
2008-05-15

Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method and apparatus of managing data using the information

#108
20080112284
2008-05-15

Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method and apparatus of managing data using the information

#109
20080094746
2008-04-24

Data reading method and storage device

#110
20080086676
2008-04-10

SEGREGATION OF REDUNDANT CONTROL BITS IN AN ECC PERMUTED, SYSTEMATIC MODULATION CODE

#111
20080074961
2008-03-27

Optical disc reproducing apparatus and recording medium

#112
20080068754
2008-03-20

Apparatus system and method for variable data density patterned media

#113
20080055765
2008-03-06

Control apparatus, storage apparatus, and computer product

#114
20070297317
2007-12-27

Optical disc and physical address format

#115
20070291626
2007-12-20

Optical disc and physical address format

#116
20070291615
2007-12-20

Optical disc and physical address format

#117
20070286046
2007-12-13

Pseudo-overwriting data on write-once discs

#118
20070258338
2007-11-08

System and method for detecting the location of an optical pick-up head

#119
20070236824
2007-10-11

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#120
20070236823
2007-10-11

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#121
20070236822
2007-10-11

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#122
20070230314
2007-10-04

Recording medium, recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus

#123
20070230032
2007-10-04

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#124
20070230031
2007-10-04

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#125
20070230030
2007-10-04

MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

#126
20070230029
2007-10-04

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#127
20070230028
2007-10-04

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#128
20070230023
2007-10-04

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#129
20070223134
2007-09-27

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#130
20070223133
2007-09-27

MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

#131
20070217308
2007-09-20

Header region protection apparatus and method of optical storage medium

#132
20070217058
2007-09-20

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#133
20070217057
2007-09-20

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#134
20070217056
2007-09-20

MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

#135
20070189142
2007-08-16

Read-only recording medium and reproducing method thereof

#136
20070177471
2007-08-02

Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method of managing data using the information

#137
20070153662
2007-07-05

Data formatting method for recording optical information using dummy data, and optical disk

#138
20070150774
2007-06-28

Maintaining data integrity in a data storage system

#139
20070147212
2007-06-28

Method of recording data to an information recording medium

#140
20070091778
2007-04-26

Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus

#141
20070091777
2007-04-26

Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus

#142
20070091735
2007-04-26

Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus

#143
20070086284
2007-04-19

STORAGE MEDIUM INITIALIZATION METHOD, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS

#144
20070086278
2007-04-19

Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus

#145
20070079182
2007-04-05

Method for calculating an error detecting code

#146
20070076571
2007-04-05

Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus

#147
20070076570
2007-04-05

Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus

#148
20070076568
2007-04-05

Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus

#149
20070076566
2007-04-05

INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS

#150
20070070842
2007-03-29

Recording and/or reproducing method, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium storing program for performing the method

#151
20070058514
2007-03-15

Recording medium, recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus

#152
20070053263
2007-03-08

Recording medium, recording method, reproduction method, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus

#153
20070047395
2007-03-01

Optical disk shred operation with detection

#154
20070025006
2007-02-01

Sector format setting processing method for disk storage device and disk storage device

#155
20070011580
2007-01-11

Information recording medium on which sector data generated from ECC block is recorded, information recording apparatus for recording sector data, and information reproduction apparatus for reproducing sector data

#156
20070011572
2007-01-11

Information recording medium on which sector data generated from ECC block is recorded, information recording apparatus for recording sector data, and information reproduction apparatus for reproducing sector data

#157
20070002701
2007-01-04

Optical disk and optical disk drive device

#158
20070002700
2007-01-04

Optical disk, optical disk access device and access method

#159
20070002698
2007-01-04

Recorder, recording method, player, and playback method

#160
20060294534
2006-12-28

Optical disk and optical disk drive device

#161
20060291815
2006-12-28

Transport stream processing device, and associated methodology of generating and aligning source data packets in a physical data structure

#162
20060280486
2006-12-14

Optical information recording medium and recording apparatus

#163
20060247910
2006-11-02

ERROR CORRECTING METHOD, DISK MEDIUM, DISK RECORDING METHOD AND DISK REPRODUCING METHOD

#164
20060239145
2006-10-26

Optical information recording medium and recording apparatus

#165
20060218466
2006-09-28

Information recording medium on which sector data generated from ECC block is recorded, information recording apparatus for recording sector data, and information reproduction apparatus for reproducing sector data

#166
20060206765
2006-09-14

Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method of managing data using the information

#167
20060187813
2006-08-24

Optical disc and physical address format

#168
20060182013
2006-08-17

Optical disc and physical address format

#169
20060182012
2006-08-17

Optical disc and physical address format

#170
20060181980
2006-08-17

System and method for enabling efficient small writes to WORM storage

#171
20060171053
2006-08-03

Data storage device, data storage control circuit, and control method for magnetic disk drive

#172
20060152845
2006-07-13

Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

#173
20060146678
2006-07-06

Method and apparatus for recording optical information, and optical disk

#174
20060146674
2006-07-06

Optical disc and physical address format

#175
20060117243
2006-06-01

Storage device having superset format, method and system for use therewith

#176
20060114810
2006-06-01

Information recording medium information recording method and information recording/reproduction system

#177
20060114588
2006-06-01

Method for formatting data sectors on magnetic disk, and magnetic disk drive

#178
20060109778
2006-05-25

Recording medium, information recording and reproducing method, and recording and reproducing apparatus

#179
20060092796
2006-05-04

Recording medium for storing start position information for each zone and method and apparatus of managing data using the information

#180
20060082914
2006-04-20

Apparatus and method for reading and writing data in recording medium

#181
20060013118
2006-01-19

Optical disc, optical disc recording device, optical disc recording method

#182
20060010364
2006-01-12

Information recording medium on which sector data generated from ECC block is recorded, information recording apparatus for recording sector data, and information reproduction apparatus for reproducing sector data

#183
20060005069
2006-01-05

Method and system for increasing data storage reliability and efficiency via compression

#184
20060005068
2006-01-05

Error correction extending over multiple sectors of data storage

#185
20060002246
2006-01-05

Sector-based worm implementation on random access memory

#186
20050265700
2005-12-01

Transport stream processing device, and associated methodology of generating and aligning source data packets in a physical data structure

#187
20050265196
2005-12-01

Method for reproducing information data from a recording medium having dummy data shifted at random

#188
20050265171
2005-12-01

Optical disc recording system

#189
20050254160
2005-11-17

Data recording system with servo pattern having pseudo-random binary sequences

#190
20050232607
2005-10-20

Information recording method, information recording device, information recording medium

#191
20050232112
2005-10-20

Method and apparatus for recording optical information, and optical disk

#192
20050226604
2005-10-13

Data recording method and apparatus, data recording medium, and data reproducing method and apparatus

#193
20050195721
2005-09-08

High density optical disc and method for creating and reproducing file system of the same

#194
20050185545
2005-08-25

Recording and/or reproducing method, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium storing program for performing the method

#195
20050185524
2005-08-25

Method for recording data on optical recording medium

#196
20050174903
2005-08-11

Optical information recording medium and recording apparatus

#197
20050152257
2005-07-14

Method of data storage in optical storage media under multiple specifications

#198
20050149827
2005-07-07

Data storage apparatus and method for handling a data storage apparatus

#199
20050147008
2005-07-07

Method for creating defect management information in an recording medium, and apparatus and medium based on said method

#200
20050122867
2005-06-09

Optical disk and optical disk drive device

#201
20050111330
2005-05-26

Data reproduction apparatus and data reproduction method

#202
20050105439
2005-05-19

Optical disc, method of write to same and method of read from same

#203
20050105422
2005-05-19

Optical disk and optical disk drive device

#204
20050099906
2005-05-12

Information recording medium which records information that pertains to integrity

#205
20050088945
2005-04-28

Information recording medium with management area having recording identification information

#206
20050088944
2005-04-28

Method and apparatus for recording optical information including dummy data, and optical disk having such data recorded thereon

#207
20050068652
2005-03-31

Magnetic disk control apparatus, magnetic disk control method, magnetic disk control program, and magnetic disk

#208
20050047298
2005-03-03

Information storage medium, information recording method, and information recording/reproduction apparatus

#209
20050044469
2005-02-24

Data recording/reproducing device, data recording/reproducing method, program, and recording medium

#210
20050036226
2005-02-17

Magnetic hard disk drive

#211
20050030864
2005-02-10

Recording medium, recording and reproduction apparatus, and recording and reproduction method

#212
20050025037
2005-02-03

Data media having variable control field in data units

#213
20050013227
2005-01-20

Optical storage medium in which sector address information is recorded using MSR techniques

#214
20050013031
2005-01-20

Systems for searching for SAM patterns at multiple nominal frequencies

#215
20050007892
2005-01-13

Optical storage medium in which sector address information is recorded using MSR techniques

#216
20050005193
2005-01-06

Data-recording/reproduction apparatus and data-recording/reproduction method

#217
18768832
2025-07-01

Method and magnetic disk apparatus

#218
18390530
2024-12-24

Magnetic disk apparatus and method

#219
17182365
2021-12-14

Data storage device with servo field dependent write boost

#220
16808241
2021-01-05

Magnetic disk device and read error retry method for magnetic disk device

#221
16229522
2019-11-05

Methods and systems for detecting hidden sectors in a hard drive

#222
16020013
2020-07-21

Selective sampling for data recovery

#223
15678440
2018-09-25

Laser calibration for heat-assisted magnetic recording head using interleaved laser current

#224
15168209
2017-08-22

On the fly formatting

#225
15157903
2018-04-24

Servo gray code quality detector

#226
14924630
2016-12-06

Spiral pitch correction based on micro-jog variation

#227
14865113
2016-10-04

Combining selected data from two or more passes to recover a data sector

#228
14853313
2016-09-06

Data storage device employing different frequency preambles in adjacent data tracks

#229
14844864
2016-08-30

Systems and methods for acquisition phase gain modification

#230
14834739
2016-08-09

Magnetic recording disk drive with position error signal (PES) blocks in the data tracks for compensation of track misregistration

#231
14644415
2016-09-27

Disk drive adjusting estimated servo state to compensate for transient when crossing a servo zone boundary

#232
14611120
2016-05-31

On the fly formatting

#233
14514689
2016-01-12

Methods for reducing operational latency of data storage systems

#234
14502691
2015-12-29

Re-writing of initial sectors in a storage device

#235
14173895
2014-12-09

Data storage device writing a multi-sector codeword in segments over multiple disk revolutions