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CA 2279759 C · Owner: Shaath, Kamel · Inventors: Shaath, Kamel
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Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A method is disclosed for accessing a removable storage medium. The removable storage medium is inserted within a removable storage drive. When the newly inserted removable storage medium is detected an identifier is read therefrom. The identifier is used to determine if a symbolic link to that medium already exists. When a symbolic link exists the symbolic link is updated to reflect the physical path to the storage medium. When the symbolic link does not exist a symbolic link is created linking the identifier to the storage medium. The symbolic link indicates a non-standard storage medium. The symbolic link is then used to read data from and write data to the storage medium.
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- Filed July 30, 1999 and granted December 16, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 30, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 30, 2021.
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