Patents Represented by Attorney Zilka-Kotab, PC
  • Patent number: 8310784
    Abstract: A magnetic head in one embodiment comprises a pole; a first write gap in the pole; a first coil for generating a magnetic flux across the first write gap; a second write gap in the pole having at least a portion thereof aligned with the first write gap in a direction parallel to a direction of media travel thereover; and a second coil for generating a magnetic flux across the second write gap, the second coil being addressable independently of the first coil. A method in one embodiment comprises forming a first write coil; forming a first write gap; forming a second write gap having at least a portion thereof aligned with the first write gap in a direction parallel to a direction of media travel thereover; forming a second coil for generating a magnetic flux across the second write gap, the second coil being addressable independently of the first coil; and forming one or more write poles, wherein a write pole region adjacent the first and second write gaps is formed concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Biskeborn, Philipp Herget
  • Patent number: 8310786
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a writer for shingled recording which includes a write pole having a trailing edge and first and second side edges extending from the trailing edge. The writer further includes a shield extending along and about parallel to only a portion of the trailing edge or only a portion of the first side edge, and the shield does not extend along the second side edge. In addition, an angle formed between the first side edge and the trailing edge along an air bearing surface side of the writer is different than an angle formed between the second side edge and the trailing edge along the air bearing surface side of the writer. Other systems are also presented which include advanced shingled writing head designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Anton R. de la Fuente, Masafumi Mochizuki, James T. Olson, Roger W. Wood
  • Patent number: 8310777
    Abstract: In one general embodiment, a recording system controller includes a controller controlling a timing of flux switching of adjacent pairs of writers such that the writers in a given pair do not switch substantially concurrently, and reducing a current of one of the writers in the pair while the adjacent writer is writing a transition. In another general embodiment, a recording system controller includes a controller controlling a timing of pulse writing of adjacent pairs of writers such that the writers in a given pair do not pulse substantially concurrently. In yet another general embodiment, a method includes controlling a timing of pulse writing or flux switching of adjacent pairs of writers such that the writers in a given pair do not pulse or switch substantially concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Biskeborn, Philipp Herget, Pierre-Olivier Jubert
  • Patent number: 8312047
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter
  • Patent number: 8311127
    Abstract: A method to detect (identify) wrongly decoded data (I type macro-blocks), which can be subsequently concealed by error concealment techniques, thereby improving the visual quality of a decoded stream, is provided. Additionally, a method is provided. In use, a set of macro-block data is selected for validation. Additionally, a set of suspicious macro blocks is selected from the set of macro-block data based on location information for each suspicious macro block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Pravin Gangadhar Karandikar, Shantanu Nath, Vinayak Jayaram Pore, Jaya Shrikrishna Panvalkar, Parag Chaurasia
  • Patent number: 8310077
    Abstract: A turbine adapted to be constrained within a flow of fluid includes a stator adapted to be constrained within a flow of fluid, and a rotor defining an aperture and having rotor blades protruding from a peripheral region of the rotor into the aperture. The rotor is adapted to be rotatably mounted to the stator such that movement of fluid through the aperture causes rotation of the rotor relative to the stator. Electricity is generated as a result of rotation of the rotor relative to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: C-Power Limited
    Inventor: Colin Richard Pearce
  • Patent number: 8306998
    Abstract: A method comprises displaying a mail server information screen, and receiving connection information via the mail server information screen. Further, the method comprises displaying an address page, and receiving recipient information via the address page. In addition, the method comprises displaying a content page, and receiving content in the content page. Additionally, an electronic mail message having the content is compiled, and the electronic mail message is sent to a recipient utilizing the connection information and recipient information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: NVIDIA International, Inc.
    Inventors: Quinton Y. Zondervan, Umair A. Khan, Gregory Harman, Salman Akhtar, Muhammad Raza, Muhammad Ata Ul Haleem Vaince, Dmitriy V. Yepishin, Asad A. Zaidi
  • Patent number: 8296930
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetoresistive sensor that results in the sensor having a very flat top magnetic shield. The process involves depositing a plurality of sensor layers and then depositing a thin high density carbon CMP stop layer over the sensor layers and forming a mask over the CMP stop layer. An ion milling is performed to define the sensor. Then a thin insulating layer and magnetic hard bias layer are deposited. A chemical mechanical polishing is performed to remove the mask and a reactive ion etching is performed to remove the remaining carbon CMP stop layer. Because the CMP stop layer is very dense and hard, it can be made very thin. This means that when it is removed by reactive ion etching, there is very little notching over the sensor, thereby allowing the upper shield to be very thin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Shin Funada, Quang Le, Thomas L. Leong, Jui-Lung Li, Chang-Man Park, Ning Shi, Hicham M. Sougrati
  • Patent number: 8300358
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention help to suppress broadening of a write field of a main pole of a perpendicular recording head and realize high-quality write operation. According to one embodiment, a main pole of a write head extends to an air bearing surface or a medium-facing surface and has an inverted trapezoid in cross-section. First soft magnetic films called side shields are separately disposed through a nonmagnetic film on both sides of the main pole. The air bearing surface side end of the first soft magnetic film is provided to recede from the air bearing surface. The first soft magnetic film and the main pole are formed in the same layer. A second soft magnetic film called a trailing shield is provided above the main pole on the air bearing surface side via a nonmagnetic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Yohji Maruyama, Tadayuki Iwakura, Kimitoshi Etoh, Hiromi Shiina, Kazue Kudo
  • Patent number: 8300354
    Abstract: A magnetic disk drive having a layer of ZTMD raffinate coated within a housing of the disk drive to trap debris in order to prevent contamination related failure of the disk drive. The ZTMD raffinate can be applied to the inside of the housing of the disk drive, such as to side walls of the housing and or the cover of the housing. The ZTMD raffinate can also be applied to a filter structure within the housing in order improve the performance of the filter structure and prevent contamination collected thereon from becoming dislodged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Xing-Cai Guo
  • Patent number: 8301834
    Abstract: A system is provided to ensure a timely secure data erase by determining whether allocating an additional tape drive would improve secure data erase performance by evaluating a quantity of physical volumes to be secure data erased, a maximum queued threshold, an average time to an erasure deadline and a minimum expiration threshold. An additional tape drive is allocated for the secure data erase process when it is determined that allocating an additional tape drive would improve secure data erase performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Tad Kishi, Mark Allan Norman, Laura Jean Ostasiewski, Christopher Michael Sansone
  • Patent number: 8298688
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a magnetic recording layer formed above a substrate, comprising: a first magnetic layer formed from a [Co/Pt]n multilayered film, wherein the first magnetic layer has a face-centered cubic (fcc) (111) crystal structure, the (111) direction being perpendicular to a film surface thereof, and a second magnetic layer comprising a CoCrPt or CoCrPt alloy film formed above the first magnetic layer, wherein the second magnetic layer has a hexagonal close packed (hcp) (00.1) crystal structure, the (00.1) direction being perpendicular to a film surface thereof. According to another embodiment, a system includes a magnetic recording medium as described above, a magnetic head for reading from and/or writing to the magnetic recording medium, a magnetic head slider for supporting the magnetic head, and a control unit coupled to the magnetic head for controlling operation of the magnetic head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nemoto, Kiwamu Tanahashi, Hiroyuki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8296781
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining parameters for an application based on hardware specifications. In operation, a plurality of hardware specifications associated with a system are identified. Additionally, at least one application associated with the system is identified. Furthermore, at least one parameter for the application is determined based on the hardware specifications. Still yet, the parameter is applied to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Rev Lebaredian, John F. Spitzer, Vasiliv Skvortsov
  • Patent number: 8289662
    Abstract: A device in one embodiment includes a plurality of tunnel junction resistors coupled in series; a first lead coupled to one end of the plurality of tunnel junction resistors coupled in series; and a second lead coupled to another end of the plurality of tunnel junction resistors coupled in series. A device in another embodiment includes a magnetoresistive sensor; a plurality of tunnel junction resistors coupled in series; a first lead coupling one end of the magnetoresistive sensor to one end of the plurality of tunnel junction resistors coupled in series; and a second lead coupling another end of the magnetoresistive sensor to another end of the plurality of tunnel junction resistors coupled in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Icko E. T. Iben
  • Patent number: 8289324
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for spatial hierarchy traversal. In operation, a spatial hierarchy is traversed for ray tracing. Additionally, a number of nodes traversed in each of a plurality of levels of the spatial hierarchy is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Samuli M. Laine, Timo O. Aila, David Patrick Luebke
  • Patent number: 8291388
    Abstract: A method for controlling a debugger, the method includes: determining whether to execute a certain breakpoint of the debugger in view of certain breakpoint conditional information and in view of at least one previous visit, during the execution of the debugger, to at least one other breakpoint of the debugger; and selectively executing the certain breakpoint in response to the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nir Golan, Aviad Zlotnick
  • Patent number: 8290967
    Abstract: A method for processing a search query according to one embodiment includes receiving a search query containing terms; looking up at least some of the terms in a search index for identifying sections of documents containing the at least some of the terms; generating a content score for each of the documents based at least in part on a number of keywords found in the sections of each document; looking up at least some of the terms in the search index for attempting to match one or more of the terms to context information in the search index, the context information being associated with at least one of the documents; generating a context score based at least in part on the matching of terms to the context information; generating a document score for each of the documents based at least in part on the content score and the context score; and outputting an indicator of at least one of the documents, or portion thereof, for the at least one of the documents having a higher document score relative to other of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: barnesandnoble.com LLC
    Inventors: Aditya Vailaya, Jiang Wu, Manish Rathi
  • Patent number: 8289640
    Abstract: A method according to one embodiment includes monitoring a data transfer operation for detecting temporary errors; determining whether an error burst has occurred based on the monitoring; if an error burst has occurred, altering a condition of the data transfer operation; monitoring the data transfer operation having the altered condition for detecting temporary errors; determining whether another error burst has occurred based on the monitoring of the data transfer operation having the altered condition; and if another error burst has occurred; altering another condition of the data transfer operation. Additional systems and methods are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Milton Fry, Ernest Stewart Gale, Kenji Nakamura, Hirokazu Nakayama, Pamela Ruth Nylander-Hill
  • Patent number: 8285680
    Abstract: A method for restoring an object comprises receiving a request to restore an object. Also, the method includes outputting a representation of available backup files and receiving a selection of at least one of the available backup files. Further, the method comprises restoring at least one of the selected backup files into a temporary location and mounting at least one of the restored backup files as a server. In addition, the method includes outputting a representation of available objects from the server and receiving a selection of at least one of the available objects to be restored from the server. Also, the method includes copying one or more selected objects from the server into an Active Directory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Wayne Freeman, Alexei Kojenov, Joanne T. Nguyen, Delbert Barron Hoobler, III
  • Patent number: 8284521
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention help to provide a flying height adjusting type magnetic head slider with reduced influence of a heater coil induction field. According to one embodiment, a magnetic head slider comprises a heater, a read element, and a write element, which are formed on a substrate. The heater is formed between a lower magnetic shield of the read element and the substrate by meandering a heater coil in direction Y going away from ABS. Magnetic fields by generated in direction Y orthogonal to a track width direction X of the lower magnetic field upon energization of the heater coil are offset each other, exerting no influence on the magnetized state in the track width direction X of the lower magnetic shield. A magnetic field hx induced in the track width direction X of the lower magnetic shield is coincident with the magnetizing direction of the lower magnetic shield, acting to maintain the magnetized state of the lower magnetic shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Takayoshi Ohtsu