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US07974522B2 Systems and methods to improve consumer product reliability and lifetime of a hard disk drive by reducing its activity
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通过减少其活动来提高消费者产品可靠性和硬盘驱动器使用寿命的系统和方法
- Patent Title: Systems and methods to improve consumer product reliability and lifetime of a hard disk drive by reducing its activity
- Patent Title (中): 通过减少其活动来提高消费者产品可靠性和硬盘驱动器使用寿命的系统和方法
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Application No.: US11536966Application Date: 2006-09-29
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Publication No.: US07974522B2Publication Date: 2011-07-05
- Inventor: Gary D. Hibbard , Dennis L. Jesensky
- Applicant: Gary D. Hibbard , Dennis L. Jesensky
- Agency: Merchant & Gould
- Main IPC: H04N5/89
- IPC: H04N5/89 ; H04N5/76
Abstract:
The present invention is directed towards reducing hard disk drive (HDD) activity by reducing the activity of an internal time shift buffer (TSB). The HDD may be included in a digital host communications terminal (DHCT). The TSB can switch between buffering a high definition quality to a standard definition quality of a streaming program. Additionally, the TSB can be disabled to prevent buffering of the streaming program. The reduced buffering of the TSB is determined by several factors including the temperature of the HDD, the health of the HDD, a set-up menu including TSB options, and/or whether there is a high definition television connected to the DHCT.
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