Patents by Inventor Mark Schultz

Mark Schultz 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).

  • Publication number: 20060279935
    Abstract: A structure for cooling an electronic device is disclosed. The structure includes a top layer disposed over the electronic device. The structure further includes a plurality of spring elements disposed between the top layer and the electronic device for providing a heat path from the electronic device and wherein the plurality of spring elements provide mechanical compliance. In one alternative, the structure further includes a solid heat-conducting layer disposed over the electronic device, wherein the plurality of spring elements are coupled to the solid heat-conducting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: John Karidis, Mark Schultz, Bucknell Webb
  • Publication number: 20060279932
    Abstract: A structure for cooling an electronic device is disclosed. The structure includes a top layer disposed over the electronic device. The structure further includes a plurality of spring elements disposed between the top layer and the electronic device, wherein at least one of the spring elements comprises a spring portion and a fin portion. At least one of the spring elements provides a heat path from the electronic device and provides mechanical compliance. In another embodiment, the structure further includes a heat-conducting layer disposed over the electronic device, wherein the fin portion of each of at least one of the spring elements is coupled to the heat-conducting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: John Karidis, Mark Schultz, Bucknell Webb
  • Publication number: 20060262280
    Abstract: A method and a system for identifying a copy of an image sequence that is presented on a screen. At least one identifier distinct from the image sequence is projected such that the identifier is displayed on the screen using visible light along with the image sequence. The identifier can be presented at periodic intervals and can define a theater location, a date and/or a time. A color and/or an illumination of at least a portion of the image sequence presentation can be measured. Based on the measured illumination and/or color, a projection brightness and/or color can be determined for the identifier. Also, a location on the screen where the identifier should be projected can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: David Duffield, Mark Schultz, Michael Sterling
  • Publication number: 20060263056
    Abstract: A video processing system adaptively generates and processes volume/file structure and navigation data of different data format and converts data between different formats for decoding, recording and other applications. The system processes the volume/file structure and navigation data in distinct modes including (a) pre-processing, (b) contemporaneous and (c) post-processing modes. In addition, the system provides navigation information supporting navigation through different images of one or more video programs by parsing encoded packetized data representative of a sequence of individual images to determine parameters to support navigation through the sequence of individual images. The determined parameters are formatted into a predetermined data structure and incorporated into a pre-formed navigation data field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Shu Lin, Donald Willis, Mark Schultz
  • Publication number: 20060186196
    Abstract: A stored-value card assembly includes a plurality of stored-value cards and a package. The plurality of stored-value cards each include an account identifier linking the respective stored-value card to a different financial account or record. The package is configured to maintain the plurality of stored-value cards such that the account identifier of each of two of the plurality of stored-value cards is visible for scanning. Other stored-value card assemblies and associated methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Schultz, Dennis Smith
  • Publication number: 20060118616
    Abstract: A stored-value card including a first surface and a second surface. The first surface stores data adapted to be read by an electronic device to perform at least one interactive activity. The second surface is opposite the first surface. The second surface includes account indicia signifying a financial account linked to the stored-value card, and brand indicia relating to a retail setting configured to redeem the stored-value card. The at least one interactive activity includes displaying at least one of a character, an object, a textual passage, and a symbol associated with the retail setting. Financial transaction card assemblies, packaged stored-value cards, and methods of using such cards are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Schultz, Stacey Donovan
  • Publication number: 20060118618
    Abstract: A stored-value card including a first surface and a second surface. The first surface stores data adapted to be read by an electronic device to perform at least one interactive activity. The second surface is opposite the first surface. The second surface includes account indicia signifying a financial account linked to the stored-value card, and brand indicia relating to a retail setting configured to redeem the stored-value card. The at least one interactive activity includes displaying at least one of a character, an object, a textual passage, and a symbol associated with the retail setting. Financial transaction card assemblies, packaged stored-value cards, and methods of using such cards are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Schultz, Stacey Donovan
  • Publication number: 20060060367
    Abstract: A cooling structure for an electronic device comprises a plate including a thermally conducting material disposed over the electronic device. The cooling structure includes a first support and a second support. One of the first support and the second support provides compliance in the x-y directions, and the other support provides compliance in the z direction. In another embodiment of the present invention, the plate comprises a material having high thermal conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventor: Mark Schultz
  • Publication number: 20060044667
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing combined radial and timing multislot self-servowrite propagation is disclosed. Radial bursts are combined with each timing mark and requires only three recovery/read-write spacing allocations per sector. The channel operates without requiring the writing of any bursts between reading radial bursts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Blake Finstad, Gary Herbst, Kishan Kumbia, Mark Schultz, Scott Thomas, Satoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20060034060
    Abstract: A cooling structure for an electronic device comprises a compliant cap preloaded over the electronic device. The compliant cap comprises a horizontal top surface and at least one vertical support for the surface, the vertical support comprising a compliant portion and wherein the compliant cap comprises a thermally conducting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventor: Mark Schultz
  • Publication number: 20060021747
    Abstract: A structure for cooling an electronic device. The structure includes a first layer disposed over the electronic device for providing a heat path from the electronic device and a bottom layer including a fin structure and a lower surface opposite the fin structure, wherein the lower surface contacts the first layer. The structure further includes a liquid layer disposed over the fin structure of the bottom layer and a top layer including a fin structure and a top surface opposite the fin structure, wherein the fin structure of the top layer contacts the liquid layer. The structure further includes a heat sink in contact with or integral with the top layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventor: Mark Schultz
  • Publication number: 20060002000
    Abstract: The periodic component of a timing mark position error of a self-servo write pattern on a disk of a disk drive is determined based on measurements that are made of the timing mark position error at selected radial track locations. The determined periodic component of the timing mark position error is then removed based on the radial location on the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, B.V.
    Inventor: Mark Schultz
  • Publication number: 20050240635
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems of snapshot management of a file system in a data storage system. To represent the snapshots, the invention maintains pointers to the root block pointer of each snapshot. When the active file system is modified, this invention avoids overwriting any blocks used by previous snapshots by allocating new blocks for the modified blocks. When the invention needs to put an established block in a new location, it must update a parent block to point to the new location. The update to the parent block may then require allocating a new block for the new parent block and so forth. Parts of the file system not modified since a snapshot remain in place. The amount of space required to represent snapshots scales with the fraction of the file system that users modify. To maintain snapshot integrity, this invention keeps track of the first and last snapshots that use each block in space map blocks spread throughout the file system data space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Vikram Kapoor, Kurt Shoens, Mark Schultz, Rex Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20050213936
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and digital recording device for faster than normal playback of a 24 fps presentation without any loss of program information. A 24 fps playback signal is produced from a storage medium. Subsequently, a pull-down process can be performed to reformat the 24 fps playback signal for a video display, for example at 30 fps. Finally, redundant field pictures produced by the pull-down process can be selectively dropped to increase a playback speed of the presentation. The method can further include the step of selectively controlling a number of the redundant field pictures that are dropped responsive to a user input. This step can be performed automatically by calculating the rate at which the redundant field pictures must be dropped responsive to a user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Mark Schultz, Steven Barron
  • Publication number: 20050105200
    Abstract: Improvements in placement of timing patterns in self-servowriting include correcting for systematic errors due to geometric effects. A correction is made for varying systematic errors, such as when the recording head has spatially separate read and write elements. Further, servopattern rotation due to residual or unmeasured systematic errors is reduced by using a once per revolution clock index derived from the motor drive current waveform or any other sensor. In one aspect of correcting for systematic errors in the writing of timing patterns on a storage medium of a storage device, a time interval between a trigger pattern written at a first radial position of the storage medium and a rotational index is measured. The rotational index is related to the rotational orientation of the storage medium with respect to a fixed frame of the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Timothy Chainer, Anthony Praino, Mark Schultz, Bucknell Webb, Edward Yarmchuk
  • Publication number: 20050021565
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems of snapshot management of a file system in a data storage system. To represent the snapshots, the invention maintains pointers to the root block pointer of each snapshot. When the active file system is modified, this invention avoids overwriting any blocks used by previous snapshots by allocating new blocks for the modified blocks. When the invention needs to put an established block in a new location, it must update a parent block to point to the new location. The update to the parent block may then require allocating a new block for the new parent block and so forth. Parts of the file system not modified since a snapshot remain in place. The amount of space required to represent snapshots scales with the fraction of the file system that users modify. To maintain snapshot integrity, this invention keeps track of the first and last snapshots that use each block in space map blocks spread throughout the file system data space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Vikram Kapoor, Kurt Shoens, Mark Schultz, Rex Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20050002120
    Abstract: A system and method for improved self-servo-writing of multi-slot timing patterns is described. Individual timing marks are replaced with groups of timing mark slots. At each timing mark location, a time measurement is made by detecting a timing mark in one of the slots. Also, extensions to the existing timing marks are written in other slots. The combination of timing measurements at every timing mark and extensions to those timing marks written at every opportunity improves the overall precision of the timing propagation. The improved accuracy of timing mark placement produces a commensurate improvement in the placement of the concomitantly written servo-data. In addition, the alignment accuracy of the written pattern is less sensitive to variations in rotation speed and variations in the shape of written transitions. Moreover, only a single disk revolution is required at each servo radius to write servo data and propagate the timing marks to maintain timing alignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Timothy Chainer, Mark Schultz, Bucknell Webb
  • Publication number: 20040249748
    Abstract: A reloadable stored-value card assembly includes a stored-value card adapted for use in making purchases, and a reloader card, separable from the stored-value card, adapted for loading value on the stored-value card. The stored-value card and the reloader card are initially attached together, each share a common bar code, and are each linked to a common financial account or record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Mark Schultz, Anne L. Couch, Kathy Hartley, Tim Tormoen
  • Patent number: 5332927
    Abstract: An auxiliary power supply system includes an internal combustion engine driving an alternator the output of which is rectified and supplied to DC bus lines across which a storage battery is connected. The DC bus lines may supply a consuming device such as an uninterruptible power supply or telecommunications system. The voltage across the bus lines is sensed and when the voltage drops below a selected value, indicating that the consuming devices is drawing power from the battery beyond a desired limit, the engine is turned on for a period of time to warm it up, during which the power from the generator is not supplied to the DC bus lines. Thereafter, the generator supplies power to the DC bus lines to supply the consuming device and partially recharge the battery until the consuming device is no longer drawing power, after which the engine is shut off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Best Power Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Paul, Murray Leonard, Mark Schultz, Kevin Mengelt, Robert Colburn
  • Patent number: 5198698
    Abstract: An auxiliary power supply system includes an internal combustion engine driving an alternator the output of which is rectified and supplied to DC bus lines across which a storage battery is connected. The DC bus lines may supply a consuming device such as an uninterruptible power supply or telecommunications system. The voltage across the bus lines is sensed and when the voltage drops below a selected value, indicating that the consuming devices is drawing power from the battery beyond a desired limit, the engine is turned on for a period of time to warm it up, during which the power from the generator is not supplied to the DC bus lines. Thereafter, the generator supplies power to the DC bus lines to supply the consuming device and partially recharge the battery until the consuming device is no longer drawing power, after which the engine is shut off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Best Power Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Paul, Murray Leonard, Mark Schultz, Kevin Mengelt, Robert Colburn