Patents by Inventor Greg A. Blaha

Greg A. Blaha 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).

  • Dynamic processor bandwidth allocation in response to environmental conditions
    Patent number: 8090906
    Abstract: Servo-related tasks are performed at a first processor in a disk drive. A signal indicative of an environmental condition is received at the first processor, and code associated with the environmental condition is identified based at least in part on the signal. A second processor in the disk drive is caused to execute the code associated with the environmental condition, and a responsive task is performed at the first processor based at least in part on the executed code associated with the environmental condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg A. Blaha, Kenny T. Coker, Alan T. Meyer