Patents by Inventor Steve Kutz

Steve Kutz 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 setting optical drive write speed
    Patent number: 7423943
    Abstract: Optical medium identification codes, such as the ATIP start codes used for CD-R optical media, are preassigned by optical medium manufacturer for association with planned optical media of the manufacturer. Optical disc drive manufacturers build optical disc drives having the preassigned optical medium identification codes in write strategy tables even though the optical disc drives are manufactured and sold before release and development of write strategies for the planned optical media. General write strategies associated with the preassigned optical medium identification codes provide more rapid write speeds for optical media having preassigned codes than for optical media having unknown identification codes by basing the preassigned write strategies on planned optical media design parameters, such as similarities with existing optical media of the manufacturer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Munif Farhan Halloush, Christiaan Steenbergen, Steve Kutz
  • Method and system for setting optical drive write speed
    Publication number: 20050083811
    Abstract: Optical medium identification codes, such as the ATIP start codes used for CD-R optical media, are preassigned by optical medium manufacturer for association with planned optical media of the manufacturer. Optical disc drive manufacturers build optical disc drives having the preassigned optical medium identification codes in write strategy tables even though the optical disc drives are manufactured and sold before release and development of write strategies for the planned optical media. General write strategies associated with the preassigned optical medium identification codes provide more rapid write speeds for optical media having preassigned codes than for optical media having unknown identification codes by basing the preassigned write strategies on planned optical media design parameters, such as similarities with existing optical media of the manufacturer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Munif Halloush, Christiaan Steenbergen, Steve Kutz