Patents by Inventor Steve Brittenham

Steve Brittenham 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 device utilizing erasure information as a reliability indicator in an information medium
    Patent number: 6134065
    Abstract: A method and a device in which information is written on a medium and is read out, and which establishes whether the information read is sufficiently reliable, and in which so-called erasure information is used to establish the influence of media defects and other imperfections on the occurrence of errors in a transmission system. The medium is, for example, a hard disk containing one or more bad spots whose location can be accurately detected. The implementation of the method makes accurate and fast computation of the bit error rate possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignees: U.S. Philips Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Johannes W. M. Bergmans, Johannes O. Voorman, Steve Brittenham