Patents by Inventor John Edward Lauber

John Edward Lauber 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).

  • Disk drive executing a preemptive multitasking operating system comprising tasks of varying priority
    Patent number: 7082494
    Abstract: A disk drive is disclosed for executing a preemptive multitasking operating system comprising tasks of varying priority, including a disk task for processing disk commands by initiating seek operations and configuring parameters of a read/write channel, a host task for initiating disk commands in response to host commands received from a host computer, a background task for initiating disk commands to perform background operations including a defect scan of the disk, and an execution task for arbitrating the disk commands generated by the host task and the background task and for transmitting the arbitrated disk commands to the disk task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory B. Thelin, Michael S. Rothberg, Eric L. Severtson, John Edward Lauber, Horia Cristian Simionescu