Patents by Inventor Daniel J. Malone

Daniel 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).

  • Method and apparatus for providing a marker for adaptive formatting via a self-servowrite process
    Patent number: 7079347
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a marker at the end of the adaptive self-servowrite process for adaptive formatting via the self-servowrite process. The mark is used later in the drive manufacturing process to identify the number of tracks written on the surface and thus determine the appropriate format to use in the drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul M. Cisewski, Blake Finstad, Peter Kui Ho, Kishan Kumar Kumbla, Daniel J. Malone, Scott Arthur Thomas
  • Adaptive data format method integrating spare sectors
    Patent number: 6927930
    Abstract: The performance capability of different heads that are part of the same hard disk drive (HDD) are utilized by an adaptive format that includes a plurality of storage zones and at least one reset zone that are distributed along a radius of the hard disk such that a reset zone is disposed between two adjacent storage zones. Each storage zone has a plurality of associated data tracks and each reset zone includes a plurality of data tracks. The number of data tracks associated with each respective storage zone is based on a performance capability of a head associated with the hard disk and includes at least one data track of at least one reset zone adjacent to the storage zone when the number of data tracks associated with the storage zone exceeds the number of data tracks that are between each reset zone adjacent to the storage zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: George Anthony Dunn, Daniel J. Malone
  • Method and apparatus for providing a marker for adaptive formatting via a self-servowrite process
    Publication number: 20040085669
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a marker at the end of the adaptive self-servowrite process for adaptive formatting via the self-servowrite process. The mark is used later in the drive manufacturing process to identify the number of tracks written on the surface and thus determine the appropriate format to use in the drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul M. Cisewski, Blake Finstad, Peter Kui Ho, Kishan Kumar Kumbla, Daniel J. Malone, Scott Arthur Thomas