Inventor
VALLIS MARK F
US8 patents
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WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC
6 patentsUS7149046B1Dec 12, 2006
Disk drive implementing wear prevention in a high frequency access band of tracks
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC146 citations98
US7050252B1May 23, 2006
Disk drive employing off-line sector verification and relocation of marginal sectors discovered during read error recovery procedure
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC172 citations98
US6480932B1Nov 12, 2002
Computer system having a host computer coupled to a disk drive with a drive-selected-application partition for storing data for execution by the host computer in response to drive-determined conditions
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC163 citations98
US7028174B1Apr 11, 2006
Disk drive employing a non-volatile serial semiconductor memory for storing a control program for a microprocessor
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC167 citations97
US6968422B1Nov 22, 2005
Disk drive employing a modified rotational position optimization algorithm to account for external vibrations
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC142 citations97
US6710953B1Mar 23, 2004
Method and disk drive for improving data storage capacity of data tracks using push-down wedges
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC116 citations97
WESTERN DIGITAL VENTURES INC
2 patentsUS6948165B1Sep 20, 2005
Method for installing an application program, to be executed during each bootload of a computer system for presenting a user with content options prior to conventional system startup presentation, without requiring a user's participation to install the program
WESTERN DIGITAL VENTURES INC177 citations98
US6691213B1Feb 10, 2004
Computer system and method for accessing a protected partition of a disk drive that lies beyond a limited address range of a host computer's BIOS
WESTERN DIGITAL VENTURES INC190 citations98