Patents by Inventor Claude Camp

Claude Camp 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).

  • Automatic acquisition of physical characteristics of a hard drive
    Patent number: 6763430
    Abstract: A data gathering program executing on a host computer acquires the physical characteristics of an arbitrary disk drive. A variety of physical parameters of the disk drive can thus be discovered by the host computer system, including platter rotation time, the number and size of each track, the skew of the tracks relative to one another, and head seek, settle, and setup times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventor: Claude Camp
  • Host-based virtual disk drive for improving the performance of a hard disk drive's input/output
    Patent number: 6490651
    Abstract: Software executing in a hard disk drive's host computer system increases the perceived efficiency and performance of the hard disk drive. The host computer system implements a “virtual disk” that models physical parameters associated with the actual hard disk drive, such as seek time and physical location of the read/write heads. These parameters are used to implement host based disk drive optimization techniques such as command reordering and read-on-arrival commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventors: Serge Shats, Claude Camp, Maurice Schlumberger, Iouri Bagachev