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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176404 | Systems and methods for stepped data retry in a storage system Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing retries. As an example, a data processing retry circuit is discussed that includes a stepped erasure window register, and an erasure flag set circuit. The stepped erasure wi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176400 | Systems and methods for enhanced flaw scan in a data processing device Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for flaw scan in a data processing system. As one example, a data processing system is disclosed that includes a data detector circuit, a bit sign inverting circuit, and an LDPC decoder circuit... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176367 | Systems and methods for managing end of life in a solid state drive Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for managing solid state drives. As an example, a storage system is described that include at least a first flash memory block and a second flash memory block, and a control circuit. The first ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175201 | Systems and methods for adaptive equalization in recording channels Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for performing adaptive equalization. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods for adaptive equalization that include providing a data processing system with an... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174949 | Systems and methods for format efficient timing recovery in a read channel Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and media formats for processing user data derived from a storage medium. As an example, a system is described that includes a storage medium with a series of data. The series of data includes a s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174912 | Systems and methods for circular buffering control in a memory device Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and circuits for memories and utilization thereof. As one example, memory devices are disclosed that include a plurality of non-volatile memory blocks, and a memory write circuit. The memory write... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174784 | Systems and methods for inter-location control of storage access Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for controlling access to a magnetic storage medium. As one example, a method for controlling access to a magnetic storage medium is disclosed that includes providing a location count indicatin... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171269 | Branch target buffer with entry source field for use in determining replacement priority Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for branch prediction. As an example, some embodiments of the present invention provides processor circuits that include a program address circuit, a branch target buffer, a branch prediction r... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161357 | Systems and methods for using intrinsic data for regenerating data from a defective medium Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data regeneration. For example, a system for data regeneration is disclosed that includes a data input derived from the medium. A data detector and a data recovery system receive the data i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151137 | Systems and methods for governing the life cycle of a solid state drive Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data storage. As an example, storage devices are disclosed that include a plurality of memory blocks, an unreliable block identification circuit, and a partial failure indication circuit. E... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139457 | Systems and methods for low latency media defect detection Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for media defect detection. For example, a media defect detection systems is disclosed that includes a data input derived from a medium, a fast envelope calculation circuit that receives the da... | 03/20/2012 |
| D655996 | Safety knife | 03/20/2012 |
| D655995 | Safety knife | 03/20/2012 |
| 8009452 | Multiple driver power supply A power supply includes a power source having at least one power source output, and a plurality of drivers connected to the at least one power source output. At least one of the plurality of drivers includes a bridge network having a first switch, a second switch an... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7971125 | Systems and methods for prioritizing error correction data Various systems and methods for generating and/or ordering error indications are disclosed herein. In some cases, the error indication is used as an erasure pointer in a memory access system. As one particular example, a system for ordering erasure pointers is discl... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965467 | Systems and methods for generating equalization data Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for using data equalization. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide storage devices that include a semiconductor device having an equalization unit and a digital-to-a... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957251 | Systems and methods for reduced latency loop recovery Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for reduced latency feedback in a data processing system. For example, some embodiments provide a data processing system that includes a variable gain amplifier, a processing circuit, a data de... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948702 | Systems and methods for controlling data equalization Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for performing data equalization. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide data equalization circuits that include an equalization circuit and a transition adjustment c... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948699 | Systems and methods for equalizer optimization in a storage access retry Various embodiments of the present invention provide data processing circuits that include a multiplexer, a memory buffer, a data processing circuit, and a channel setting modification circuit. A first input of the multiplexer receives an input data set and a second... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7930927 | Transdermal portable alcohol monitor and methods for using such Various embodiments of the present invention provide alcohol monitoring devices, and methods for using such. As one example, an alcohol monitoring device is disclosed that includes a device body, an alcohol sensor, and a liquid cartridge. The alcohol sensor is assoc... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930621 | Systems and methods for LDPC decoding with post processing Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for decoding encoded information. For example, a method for post processing error correction in a decoder system is disclosed. The method includes receiving and iteratively decoding a soft inpu... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929240 | Systems and methods for adaptive MRA compensation Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for reducing head distortion. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide storage devices that include a storage medium, a read/write head assembly, and an adaptive distor... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929237 | Modulated disk lock clock and methods for using such Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for controlling access to a magnetic storage medium. As one example, a method for controlling access to a storage medium is disclosed that includes calculating a point to point error amount, an... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925959 | Systems and methods for tri-column code based error reduction Various systems and methods for tri-column code based error reduction are disclosed herein. For example, a digital information system is disclosed that includes channel detector. Such a channel detector receives an encoded data set and provides an output representin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924523 | Frequency domain approach for efficient computation of fixed-point equalization targets Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for equalizing an input signal. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide a method for performing equalization in a storage device. Such methods include providing an equ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924518 | Systems and methods for adaptive write pre-compensation Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for write pre-compensation. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods for modifying magnetic information transfer. The methods include retrieving magnetically re... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7898185 | Current controlled driver Various current controlled driver apparatuses are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide a current controlled driver including a control circuit having a current input and a driver circuit having a power input. The control c... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7849385 | Systems and methods for media defect detection utilizing correlated DFIR and LLR data The present invention provides systems and methods for detecting a media defect. A circuit providing a hard output and a soft output is used with the hard output and the soft output being combined and the product compared with a threshold. Based at least in part on ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7876862 | Conditionally input saturated Viterbi detector Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for decoding encoded information. For example, a decoder including a branch metric calculator that conditionally calculates a branch metric based on either an actual input or a saturated input.... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872821 | Systems and methods for Nyquist tone harmonic measurements Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for determining changes in fly-height. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide storage devices that include a storage medium, an offset frequency, a read/write head as... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7859780 | Systems and methods for on-the-fly write pre-compensation estimation Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for write pre-compensation. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide systems for on-the-fly estimation of write pre-compensation values. Such systems include a magnetic... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7821730 | Systems and methods for compensating baseline wandering in perpendicular magnetic recording Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for reducing low frequency loss in a magnetic storage device. For example, a data processing circuit is disclosed that includes a digital filter that receives a series of digital samples and pr... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813065 | Systems and methods for acquiring modified rate burst demodulation in servo systems Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for performing modified rate burst demodulation. For example, a method for performing modified rate burst demodulation is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data input that includes a s... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7802163 | Systems and methods for code based error reduction Various systems and methods for code based error reduction. For example, in one digital information system including a channel detector and a decoder, the channel detector receives an encoded data set and is operable to perform a column parity check. The channel det... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801200 | Systems and methods for code dependency reduction Various systems and methods for code dependency reduction are disclosed herein. For example, one method includes receiving an un-encoded data set that is represented as an array of columns and rows. In addition, two groups of data bits traversing the un-encoded data... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787252 | Preferentially cooled electronic device Various apparatuses and methods for a preferentially cooled electronic device are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments provide an electronic apparatus including a package substrate and with a semiconductor die electrically and thermally connected to the p... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782644 | Method and apparatus for supplying power A power supply includes a power source having at least one power source output, and a plurality of drivers connected to the at least one power source output. At least one of the plurality of drivers includes a bridge network having a first switch, a second switch an... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779331 | Systems and methods for tri-column code based error reduction Various systems and methods for tri-column code based error reduction are disclosed herein. For example, a digital information system is disclosed that includes channel detector. Such a channel detector receives an encoded data set and provides an output representin... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7768437 | Systems and methods for reducing the effects of ADC mismatch Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for utilizing a plurality of potentially mismatched analog to digital converters. For example, a method for adaptively processing a variety of input signals is disclosed. The method includes pr... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7741823 | Linear voltage regulator with improved large transient response Various voltage regulators and/or voltage regulation systems are disclosed. For example, a voltage regulation system that includes a source follower output is disclosed. The source follower output includes a transistor where the source of the transistor provides a b... | 06/22/2010 |
