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William B. Boyle

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 66 patents #11 of 3,180Top 1%
KMKeen Personal Media: 18 patents #1 of 14Top 8%
KTKeen Personal Technologies: 13 patents #1 of 6Top 20%
STSandisk Technologies: 3 patents #751 of 2,224Top 35%
IBM: 1 patents #44,794 of 70,183Top 65%
Lake Forest, CA: #11 of 1,030 inventorsTop 2%
California: #2,793 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #18,226 of 4,157,543Top 1%
89 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 89 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9117482 Hybrid drive changing power mode of disk channel when frequency of write data exceeds a threshold James N. Malina 2015-08-25
9064504 Electronic system with media recovery mechanism and method of operation thereof Anthony P. Sannino, Bernhard Hiller, Jih-Ping Peng 2015-06-23
9063838 Data storage device shifting data chunks of alignment zone relative to sector boundaries Kai Ling Lee, Sang Huynh, Ayberk Ozturk, Billy Rickey, Aznizam Abdullah Salehudin +1 more 2015-06-23
9058280 Hybrid drive migrating data from disk to non-volatile semiconductor memory based on accumulated access time Mei-Man L. Syu, Virgil V. Wilkins 2015-06-16
9003101 Prioritized access for media with heterogeneous access rates Robert M. Fallone 2015-04-07
8996839 Data storage device aligning partition to boundary of sector when partition offset correlates with offset of write commands Kai Ling Lee, Sang Huynh, Ayberk Ozturk, Billy Rickey, Aznizam Abdullah Salehudin +1 more 2015-03-31
8959284 Disk drive steering write data to write cache based on workload Alan T. Meyer, Mei-Man L. Syu 2015-02-17
8825977 Hybrid drive writing copy of data to disk when non-volatile semiconductor memory nears end of life Mei-Man L. Syu, Virgil V. Wilkins, Alan T. Meyer, William Carlos Cain 2014-09-02
8819367 Accelerated translation power recovery Robert M. Fallone 2014-08-26
8793532 Hard-disk drive work load profiling and capturing systems and methods Chun Sei Tsai, Sang Huynh, Anthony L. Pei, Kenneth J. D'Souza 2014-07-29
8788778 Garbage collection based on the inactivity level of stored data 2014-07-22
8782334 Hybrid drive copying disk cache to non-volatile semiconductor memory Curtis E. Stevens, Kenny T. Coker 2014-07-15
8775720 Hybrid drive balancing execution times for non-volatile semiconductor memory and disk Alan T. Meyer, Mei-Man L. Syu, Virgil V. Wilkins, Robert M. Fallone 2014-07-08
8706985 System and method for optimizing garbage collection in data storage Robert M. Fallone 2014-04-22
8699175 Disk drive mapping low frequency write addresses to circular buffer write zone Edwin S. Olds 2014-04-15
8699171 Disk drive selecting head for write operation based on environmental condition 2014-04-15
8670205 Hybrid drive changing power mode of disk channel when frequency of write data exceeds a threshold James N. Malina 2014-03-11
8639872 Hybrid drive comprising write cache spanning non-volatile semiconductor memory and disk Mei-Man L. Syu, William Carlos Cain 2014-01-28
8621133 Reading multiple metadata files across multiple tracks 2013-12-31
8576511 Disk drive executing log structured writes to physical zones based on power mode Kenny T. Coker 2013-11-05
8560759 Hybrid drive storing redundant copies of data on disk and in non-volatile semiconductor memory based on read frequency Curtis E. Stevens, Virgil V. Wilkins 2013-10-15
8521972 System and method for optimizing garbage collection in data storage Robert M. Fallone 2013-08-27
8443167 Data storage device employing a run-length mapping table and a single address mapping table Robert M. Fallone 2013-05-14
8397107 Data storage device employing data path protection using both LBA and PBA Mei-Man L. Syu 2013-03-12
8341339 Hybrid drive garbage collecting a non-volatile semiconductor memory by migrating valid data to a disk Alan T. Meyer, Mei-Man L. Syu 2012-12-25