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Patent Inventor Names
Steven S. Williams0
Jonathan W. Haines0
Date of Patent
July 29, 2008
0Patent Application Number
098948210
Date Filed
June 28, 2001
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A method and apparatus for managing a buffer memory in a disc drive. An arbitrated buffer stores data read from, or to be written to, the disc. Sequential entries (that store pointers to the data) in the buffer, corresponding to a requested traversal, are traversed prior to voluntarily relinquishing ownership of the buffer.
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