Patents by Inventor Jim Joseph Touchton

Jim Joseph Touchton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Intelligent storage device controller
    Patent number: 8645641
    Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a storage device includes a controller that is adapted to receive environmental data from a plurality of environmental sensors, where the environmental data is related to an operating environment of the storage device. Further, the controller is adapted to receive state information related to the data storage medium from a plurality of firmware detectors, to weight the received environmental data and the received state information according to a pre-determined weighting table, and to dynamically manage at least one attribute of the storage device based on the weighted environmental data and the weighted state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Baum, Jim Joseph Touchton, Timothy Richard Feldman, Mike Montemorra
  • Intelligent storage device controller
    Publication number: 20100153680
    Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a storage device includes a controller that is adapted to receive environmental data from a plurality of environmental sensors, where the environmental data is related to an operating environment of the storage device. Further, the controller is adapted to receive state information related to the data storage medium from a plurality of firmware detectors, to weight the received environmental data and the received state information according to a pre-determined weighting table, and to dynamically manage at least one attribute of the storage device based on the weighted environmental data and the weighted state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Baum, Jim Joseph Touchton, Timothy Richard Feldman, Mike Montemorra