Patents by Inventor Kenneth Lawrence Barham

Kenneth Lawrence Barham 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).

  • Performance and power management for rotating data storage device
    Patent number: 9075538
    Abstract: A data storage device may generally be directed to a buffer that stores a plurality of command requests pending for a data storage medium and a processor that is configured to skip a first command request and execute a second command request in response to the second command request having an access latency within a first predetermined performance impact range and a power consumption within a second predetermined power savings range compared to the first command request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Ryan Fulkerson, Lingzhi Yang, Kenneth Lawrence Barham
  • PERFORMANCE AND POWER MANAGEMENT FOR ROTATING DATA STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140379940
    Abstract: A data storage device may generally be directed to a buffer that stores a plurality of command requests pending for a data storage medium and a processor that is configured to skip a first command request and execute a second command request in response to the second command request having an access latency within a first predetermined performance impact range and a power consumption within a second predetermined power savings range compared to the first command request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Christopher Ryan Fulkerson, Lingzhi Yang, Kenneth Lawrence Barham
  • Physical zone table for use with surface-based serpentine format
    Patent number: 7035961
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing data stored on surfaces of discs in a disc drive utilizing more than one serpent per recording zone. The serpents are traversed using a defect descriptor table and one or more physical zone tables (PZTs). An Address Translation Logic Unit is configurable to use one or more PZTs to access multiple serpents per recording zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Seagate Technologgy LLC
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Edgar, Bang Cong Nguyen, Jimmie R. Shaver, Mark Alan Heath, Mark Allen Gaertner, Kenneth Lawrence Barham
  • Physical zone table for use with surface-based serpentine format
    Publication number: 20030065872
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing data stored on surfaces of discs in a disc drive utilizing more than one serpent per recording zone. The serpents are traversed using a defect descriptor table and one or more physical zone tables (PZTs). An Address Translation Logic Unit is configurable to use one or more PZTs to access multiple serpents per recording zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Edgar, Bang Cong Nguyen, Jimmie R. Shaver, Mark Alan Heath, Mark Allen Gaertner, Kenneth Lawrence Barham