Patents by Inventor Muhammad Nur Syukri Ahmad Shukor

Muhammad Nur Syukri Ahmad Shukor 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).

  • Disk drive defining guard bands to support zone sequentiality when butterfly writing shingled data tracks
    Patent number: 8699185
    Abstract: A disk drive is disclosed wherein a plurality of zones are defined on first and second disk surfaces, wherein each zone comprises a plurality of data tracks. Data is written to the data tracks of a first plurality of the zones on the first and second disk surfaces in an interleaved manner, in a first radial direction, and in a shingled manner. Data is written to the data tracks of a second plurality of the zones on the first and second disk surfaces in an interleaved manner, in a second radial direction opposite the first radial direction, and in a shingled manner. At least one guard band is defined at a boundary between a first zone and a second zone in the second plurality of zones on the first disk surface, wherein the guard band comprises at least one unused data track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joo Peng Teh, James N. Malina, Joe C. Lee, Muhammad Nur Syukri Ahmad Shukor