Patents by Inventor Randy Allen Fout

Randy Allen Fout 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 system for increasing recording format reliability for limited media space in a tape drive system
    Patent number: 7633701
    Abstract: A method for increasing recording format reliability in a tape drive system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a default media information region (MIR) on a media, wherein the default MIR includes MIR information divided into segments, reading the MIR information, rotating the MIR information into a first rotation MIR information by rotating the segments by one segment; and writing the first rotation MIR information into a first MIR on the media. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Gill, James Wolf, Randy Allen Fout, Roger D. Hayes
  • Method and system for increasing recording format reliability for limited media space in a tape drive system
    Publication number: 20070294461
    Abstract: A method for increasing recording format reliability in a tape drive system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a default media information region (MIR) on a media, wherein the default MIR includes MIR information divided into segments, reading the MIR information, rotating the MIR information into a first rotation MIR information by rotating the segments by one segment; and writing the first rotation MIR information into a first MIR on the media. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Richard A. Gill, James Wolf, Randy Allen Fout, Roger D. Hayes
  • Method of synchronizing physical and logical positions in a magnetic tape recording device
    Patent number: 6490114
    Abstract: An improved tape storage device having information for converting longitudinal physical positions written in a medium to logical positions used by a tape drive. The conversion information, an offset and an optional maximum physical position value, are stored in one or more locations in the tape storage device. Methods of operating the tape drive are disclosed to determine and store the conversion information in the tape storage device. Another method of operation enables the tape drive to read the conversion information and convert the physical positions to logical positions. The method works for both center loading and end loading medium. Possible numeric rollover of the physical positions is detected by one of several methods including the step values between adjacent physical positions, comparing the logical positions with an upper and lower boundary, and generating a lookup table where the rollover is represented by a wraparound between the top and bottom of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Gill, Robert Olin Wyman, Benjamin Joseph Baron, Randy Allen Fout