Read channel throughput management

US9019640B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Seagate Technology LLC · US

Inventors

• Prafulla Bollampalli Reddy · Santa Cruz, US
• Hui Su · College Park, US
• Michelle Elaine Blankenship · Lyons, US
• Eddie Wai Pun · South San Francisco, US
• John Marc Wright · Broomfield, US
• Ara Patapoutian · Westborough, US
• Hieu V. Nguyen · Minneapolis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 5, 2014
• Grant date: Apr 28, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G11B2020/185
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An implementation of a system disclosed herein provides a method of deferring decoding of a data sector received at a read channel of a storage device, in response to determining that a data sector cannot be decoded by a first decoder and storing the data sector for further processing by a second decoder.