Patents by Inventor YingEe Yip

YingEe Yip 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).

  • Partition recovery method
    Patent number: 6963951
    Abstract: There is provided a method and system of maintaining partition information relating a computer disc drive. The method includes detecting partition information which is located in the first sector of a partition of a disc drive and determining if it is valid, and comparing the valid partition information with a corresponding duplicate of the partition information which is located in a reserved area. For valid partition information which is the same as the corresponding duplicate of the partition information, a standard booting procedure for the computer is allowed to continue. For valid partition information which is not the same as the corresponding duplicate partition information, valid partition information is stored in the reserved area. For partition information which is not valid, the invalid partition information is replaced with corresponding duplicate partition information which is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: WeiLoon Ng, YingEe Yip, YongPeng Chng, Liza MuiCheng Chia
  • Partition recovery method
    Publication number: 20040044886
    Abstract: There is provided a method and system of maintaining partition information relating a computer disc drive. The method includes detecting partition information which is located in the first sector of a partition of a disc drive and determining if it is valid, and comparing the valid partition information with a corresponding duplicate of the partition information which is located in a reserved area. For valid partition information which is the same as the corresponding duplicate of the partition information, a standard booting procedure for the computer is allowed to continue. For valid partition information which is not the same as the corresponding duplicate partition information, valid partition information is stored in the reserved area. For partition information which is not valid, the invalid partition information is replaced with corresponding duplicate partition information which is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: WeiLoon Ng, YingEe Yip, YongPeng Chng, Liza MuiCheng Chia
  • Partition recovery method
    Publication number: 20020059498
    Abstract: There is provided a method and system of maintaining partition information relating a computer disc drive. The method includes detecting partition information which is located in the first sector of a partition of a disc drive and determining if it is valid, and comparing the valid partition information with a corresponding duplicate of the partition information which is located in a reserved area. For valid partition information which is the same as the corresponding duplicate of the partition information, a standard booting procedure for the computer is allowed to continue. For valid partition information which is not the same as the corresponding duplicate partition information, valid partition information is stored in the reserved area. For partition information which is not valid, the invalid partition information is replaced with corresponding duplicate partition information which is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: WeiLoon Ng, YingEe Yip, YongPeng Chng, Liza MuiCheng Chia