Patents by Inventor Dan J. Malone

Dan J. Malone 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).

  • Adaptive data recovery method and means tuned to thermal asperities in a cyclic, multitracked magnetic storage subsystem
    Patent number: 6040953
    Abstract: A method and system for resolving error or erasure in binary data streams read back using MR heads from a cyclic, multitracked recording medium. The method assesses whether an erasure or error was coincident with a thermal asperity. If the coincidence occurred, the method branches to and executes an ordered list of data recovery procedures tuned to thermal asperity. This list emphasizes early use of burst ECC correction and alteration of MR head and read channel attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dan J. Malone, Paul Hardy