Patents by Inventor Curtis R. Jons

Curtis R. Jons 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).

  • Queued posted-write disk write method with improved error handling
    Patent number: 5065354
    Abstract: A posted-write queuing program for writing information sectors to disk sectors includes error-handling routines to minimize the risk of data loss upon specified types of errors. Upon timeouts, queuing is suspended and all information sectors pending in the queue are written out to the corresponding disk sectors. Upon specified types of write errors, queuing is discontinued and repeated attempts are made to write out all information sectors to the corresponding disk sectors. For each unsuccessful attempt, the corresponding information sector is saved in the queue; the user is alerted, and subsequent read or write requests directed to the corresponding disk sector is serviced from the saved information sector in the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Compaq Computer Corporation
    Inventors: Curtis R. Jons, Robert S. Gready