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Gordon James Smith
Also filed as: MCCONNELL WILLIAM HARLOW · OTTESEN HAL HJALMAR · SMITH GORDON · SMITH GORDON J
173 granted patents·7 pending applications·8,608 citations·filing 1979–2022
99Inventor score
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180 records- 0198US6771440B2Adaptive event-based predictive failure analysis measurements in a hard disk driveIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 3, 2004·100 cites·37 claims
- 0298US6721572B1Mobile communication optimization near wireless dead zone regionsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 13, 2004·295 cites·36 claims
- 0398US6631493B2Method and apparatus for limiting soft error recovery in a disk drive data storage deviceIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 7, 2003·225 cites·19 claims
- 0498US6529685B2Multimedia direct access storage device and formatting methodIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 4, 2003·97 cites·20 claims
- 0598US5721815AMedia-on-demand communication system and method employing direct access storage deviceIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Feb 24, 1998·652 cites·24 claims
- 0697US6735035B1Method and apparatus for enabling cold temperature performance of a diskIBM·Filed 2000·Granted May 11, 2004·51 cites·52 claims
- 0797US6674590B2System and method for estimating a frequency of slider airbearing resonanceHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 6, 2004·63 cites·41 claims
- 0897US6519102B1Method and apparatus for implementing an in-situ digital harmonic computation facility for direct access storage device (DASD)IBM·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 11, 2003·100 cites·14 claims
- 0997US5930493AMultimedia server system and method for communicating multimedia informationIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Jul 27, 1999·461 cites·20 claims
- 1097US5721878AMultimedia control system and method for controlling multimedia program presentationIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Feb 24, 1998·353 cites·23 claims
- 1196US6587755B1Virtual signs for improving information communicated to the automotive driverIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 1, 2003·152 cites·28 claims
- 1296US5764430ADisk drive having optimized spindle speed for environmentIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 9, 1998·107 cites·8 claims
- 1396US5751883AMultimedia direct access storage device and formatting methodIBM·Filed 1997·Granted May 12, 1998·208 cites·28 claims
- 1496US5654747AIntelligent multimedia set-top control method and apparatus in which billing signals are communicated to an information network upon presentation of downloaded media programsIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Aug 5, 1997·242 cites·29 claims
- 1595US6801376B2Method and apparatus for evaluating a head-disk interface condition for disk drivesHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 5, 2004·57 cites·20 claims
- 1695US6763292B1Prediction and compensation for land vehicle dynamics based on feedforward road conditionsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 13, 2004·66 cites·24 claims
- 1795US6574754B1Self-monitoring storage device using neural networksIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 3, 2003·124 cites·21 claims
- 1895US6571310B1Method and apparatus for managing a heterogeneous data storage systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted May 27, 2003·114 cites·23 claims
- 1995US6546456B1Method and apparatus for operating vehicle mounted disk drive storage deviceIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 8, 2003·53 cites·16 claims
- 2095US6533466B1Hybrid connector assembly for electrical conductors and fiber optic data conductorsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 18, 2003·80 cites·19 claims
- 2195US5778135AReal-time edit control for video program materialIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Jul 7, 1998·196 cites·4 claims
- 2295US5739972AMethod and apparatus for positioning a magnetoresistive head using thermal response to servo information on the record mediumIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 14, 1998·75 cites·23 claims
- 2395US5544138AAdaptive system for optimizing disk drive power consumptionIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Aug 6, 1996·105 cites·9 claims
- 2495US5168413ATransducer head flying height monitoring methods and apparatus for disk drive systemIBM·Filed 1990·Granted Dec 1, 1992·109 cites·18 claims
- 2594US6671111B2Readback signal detection and analysis in a magnetic data storage systemIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 30, 2003·42 cites·37 claims
- 2694US6600622B1System and method for detecting displacement of disk drive heads on micro actuators due to contact with disksHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 29, 2003·47 cites·14 claims
- 2794US6563423B2Location tracking of individuals in physical spacesIBM·Filed 2001·Granted May 13, 2003·143 cites·45 claims
- 2894US6384995B1Apparatus and method for detecting defects in data storage devicesIBM·Filed 1996·Granted May 7, 2002·87 cites·7 claims
- 2994US6169930B1Method and apparatus for preventing cold temperature induced damage in a disk driveIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 2, 2001·123 cites·15 claims
- 3094US6104562AMultiple element transducer for magnetic recordingIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 15, 2000·92 cites·19 claims
- 3194US6097559ASystem and method for detecting head-to-disk contact in-situ a direct access storage device using a position error signalIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 1, 2000·93 cites·26 claims
- 3293US6802020B1Apparatus and method for dynamically rerouting a network request based on shared predictive failure informationIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 5, 2004·68 cites·31 claims
- 3393US6680806B2System and method for gracefully relinquishing a computer hard disk drive from imminent catastrophic failureHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 20, 2004·33 cites·19 claims
- 3493US6654201B2Shroud for disk drive with particulate filter elementsHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 25, 2003·41 cites·7 claims
- 3593US6384994B1Method for positioning a magnetoresistive head using a thermal response to servo information on the record mediumIBM·Filed 2000·Granted May 7, 2002·31 cites·20 claims
- 3693US6088176AMethod and apparatus for separating magnetic and thermal components from an MR read signalIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Jul 11, 2000·84 cites·77 claims
- 3793US6067203ADisk drive having optimized spindle speed for environmentIBM·Filed 1998·Granted May 23, 2000·70 cites·24 claims
- 3892US6717763B2Power savings method and apparatus for disk drivesHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 6, 2004·36 cites·20 claims
- 3992US6609212B1Apparatus and method for sharing predictive failure information on a computer networkIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 19, 2003·62 cites·34 claims
- 4092US6597906B1Mobile client-based station communication based on relative geographical position informationIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 22, 2003·182 cites·18 claims
- 4192US6154335AMethod and apparatus for positioning a dual element magnetoresistive headIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 28, 2000·55 cites·9 claims
- 4292US5630104AApparatus and method for providing multimedia dataIBM·Filed 1995·Granted May 13, 1997·62 cites·7 claims
- 4392US5594924AMultiple user multimedia data server with switch to load time interval interleaved data to plurality of time interval assigned buffersIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Jan 14, 1997·63 cites·6 claims
- 4491US6762899B2Method and apparatus for estimating the flyheight of an airbearing slider in a storage device using variable spindle velocityHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 13, 2004·32 cites·15 claims
- 4591US6529831B1Emergency vehicle locator and proximity warning systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 4, 2003·127 cites·22 claims
- 4691US6493184B1Dedicated disk burnishing zones for burnishing magnetic recording slidersIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 10, 2002·32 cites·8 claims
- 4791US6195219B1Method and apparatus for improving a thermal response of a magnetoresistive elementIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 27, 2001·62 cites·16 claims
- 4891US5751510AMethod and apparatus for restoring a thermal response signal of a magnetoresistive headIBM·Filed 1996·Granted May 12, 1998·67 cites·20 claims
- 4991US5412519AOptimization of disk drive spindle speed during low power modeIBM·Filed 1993·Granted May 2, 1995·75 cites·22 claims
- 5090US7027263B2Apparatus for look-ahead thermal sensing in a data storage deviceHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 11, 2006·27 cites·31 claims
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