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William G. Bliss
Also filed as: BLISS WILLIAM · BLISS WILLIAM G · BLISS WILLIAM GENE
84 granted patents·5 pending applications·3,391 citations·filing 1994–2015
99Inventor score
Files withCIRRUS LOGIC INC41BROADCOM CORP23INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG10BLISS WILLIAM3BLISS WILLIAM GENE3
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89 records- 0199US6009549ADisk storage system employing error detection and correction of channel coded data, interpolated timing recovery, and retroactive/split-segment symbol synchronizationCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 28, 1999·249 cites·37 claims
- 0299US5585975AEqualization for sample value estimation and sequence detection in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1994·Granted Dec 17, 1996·227 cites·29 claims
- 0398US5802118ASub-sampled discrete time read channel for computer storage systemsCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1996·Granted Sep 1, 1998·188 cites·42 claims
- 0497US5796535ASampled amplitude read channel employing a user data frequency synthesizer and a servo data frequency synthesizerCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1995·Granted Aug 18, 1998·137 cites·22 claims
- 0596US5563746AReal time media defect scanning in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 8, 1996·85 cites·21 claims
- 0695US7715143B2Delta-sigma PLL using fractional divider from a multiphase ring oscillatorBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2007·Granted May 11, 2010·30 cites·17 claims
- 0795US6646822B1Sampled amplitude read channel employing pipelined reads to reduce the gap between sectorsCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 11, 2003·99 cites·14 claims
- 0895US6216249B1Simplified branch metric for reducing the cost of a trellis sequence detector in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 10, 2001·154 cites·14 claims
- 0995US6208481B1Gain and phase constrained adaptive equalizing filter in a sampled amplitude read channel for magnetic recordingCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 27, 2001·101 cites·26 claims
- 1095US6023386AFault tolerant sync mark detector for synchronizing a time varying sequence detector in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 8, 2000·99 cites·30 claims
- 1195US5999355AGain and phase constrained adaptive equalizing filter in a sampled amplitude read channel for magnetic recordingCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1996·Granted Dec 7, 1999·101 cites·26 claims
- 1294US6594094B2Read/write channelINFINEON TECHNOLOGIES CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 15, 2003·86 cites·17 claims
- 1394US6141169ASystem and method for control of low frequency input levels to an amplifier and compensation of input offsets of the amplifierCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 31, 2000·108 cites·14 claims
- 1494US5966258AAsynchronous/synchronous digital gain control loop in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 12, 1999·65 cites·12 claims
- 1593US7768730B2Base line control electronics architectureBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 3, 2010·21 cites·21 claims
- 1693US6449110B1Optimizing operation of a disk storage system by increasing the gain of a non-linear transducer and correcting the non-linear distortions using a non-linear correction circuitCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 10, 2002·117 cites·28 claims
- 1793US6052248AParity channel code for enhancing the operation of a remod/demod sequence detector in a d=1 sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1998·Granted Apr 18, 2000·79 cites·25 claims
- 1893US5648738ARead channel having auto-zeroing and offset compensation, and power-down between servo fieldsCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1994·Granted Jul 15, 1997·61 cites·26 claims
- 1992US6111710AAsynchronous/synchronous gain control for interpolated timing recovery in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 29, 2000·84 cites·14 claims
- 2092US6032284ATrellis coding system for disc storage systemsCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 29, 2000·74 cites·20 claims
- 2192US5754352ASynchronous read channel employing an expected sample value generator for acquiring a preambleCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1996·Granted May 19, 1998·72 cites·18 claims
- 2292US5726818AMagnetic disk sampled amplitude read channel employing interpolated timing recovery for synchronous detection of embedded servo dataCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1995·Granted Mar 10, 1998·76 cites·8 claims
- 2391US6246723B1Sampled amplitude read channel employing early-decisions from a trellis sequence detector for sampling value estimationCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 12, 2001·70 cites·20 claims
- 2491US5966415AAdaptive equalization in a sub-sampled read channel for a disk storage systemCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 12, 1999·79 cites·20 claims
- 2591US5961658APR4 equalization and an EPR4 remod/demod sequence detector in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 5, 1999·74 cites·22 claims
- 2690US5771127ASampled amplitude read channel employing interpolated timing recovery and a remod/demod sequence detectorCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 23, 1998·66 cites·28 claims
- 2790US5668678ADetecting servo data and servo bursts from discrete time samples of an analog read signal in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1994·Granted Sep 16, 1997·48 cites·13 claims
- 2888US7743314B2Method and apparatus for a data-dependent noise predictive viterbiMARVELL INT LTD·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 22, 2010·7 cites·31 claims
- 2988US6819514B1Adaptive equalization and interpolated timing recovery in a sampled amplitude read channel for magnetic recordingCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 16, 2004·55 cites·17 claims
- 3088US6185173B1Sampled amplitude read channel employing a trellis sequence detector matched to a channel code constraint and a post processor for correcting errors in the detected binary sequence using the signal samples and an error syndromeCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 6, 2001·54 cites·28 claims
- 3186US5812336AFixed sample rate sampled amplitude read channel for zoned magnetic recordingCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1995·Granted Sep 22, 1998·51 cites·14 claims
- 3285US7904795B2Iterative decoder with stopping criterion generated from error location polynomialST MICROELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 8, 2011·13 cites·21 claims
- 3385US6108151ASampled amplitude read channel for reading user data and embedded servo data from a magnetic mediumCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 22, 2000·34 cites·8 claims
- 3484US8024640B2Read/write channel coding and methods for use therewithBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 20, 2011·6 cites·22 claims
- 3584US6115198APR4 sampled amplitude read channel for detecting user data and embedded servo dataCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 5, 2000·43 cites·18 claims
- 3684US5623377AFiltering a read signal to attenuate secondary pulses caused by pole tips of a thin film magnetic read headCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1994·Granted Apr 22, 1997·40 cites·38 claims
- 3783US8661309B2Systems for high-speed backplane applications using pre-codingBLISS WILLIAM·Filed 2011·Granted Feb 25, 2014·7 cites·18 claims
- 3883US6038091AMagnetic disk drive read channel with digital thermal asperity detectorCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 14, 2000·38 cites·28 claims
- 3983US5926490ASampled amplitude read channel employing a remod/demod sequence detector guided by an error syndromeCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 20, 1999·42 cites·40 claims
- 4082US9246587B2Compensation for optical multi-path interferenceBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 26, 2016·6 cites·20 claims
- 4182US7643233B2Disk clock system with up-sampler to generate frequency offsetBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 5, 2010·4 cites·16 claims
- 4282US6661590B2Efficient analog front end for a read/write channel of a hard disk drive running from a highly regulated power supplyINFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 9, 2003·18 cites·24 claims
- 4381US6144513ADetecting servo data and servo bursts from discrete time samples of an analog read signal in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 7, 2000·31 cites·3 claims
- 4480US7974035B2Timing recovery optimization using disk clockBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 5, 2011·4 cites·30 claims
- 4580US6731443B2Total error multiplier for optimizing read/write channelINFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG·Filed 2001·Granted May 4, 2004·15 cites·38 claims
- 4680US5903857AMethod and apparatus for calibrating an analog filter in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1996·Granted May 11, 1999·34 cites·25 claims
- 4779US5854714ADigital servo demodulation for sampled amplitude magnetic recordingCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1996·Granted Dec 29, 1998·26 cites·29 claims
- 4878US6771442B2Off-track interference emulatorINFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 3, 2004·12 cites·23 claims
- 4977US8015477B2Method and apparatus for a data-dependent noise predictive viterbiMARVELL INT LTD·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 6, 2011·3 cites·17 claims
- 5077US5987634AChannel quality circuit in a sampled amplitude read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 16, 1999·30 cites·20 claims
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