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Gregory B. Thelin
Also filed as: THELIN GREGORY B
28 granted patents·1 pending application·5,304 citations·filing 1991–2022
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29 records- 0199US7436610B1Disk drive employing different zone boundaries across disk surfacesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 14, 2008·146 cites·16 claims
- 0299US7120737B1Disk drive employing a disk command data structure for tracking a write verify status of a write commandWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 10, 2006·188 cites·2 claims
- 0399US7088545B1Disk drive decreasing head temperature to increase fly-height during seek operationWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 8, 2006·174 cites·27 claims
- 0499US7076604B1Disk drive employing a disk command data structure for tracking a write verify status of a write commandWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 11, 2006·196 cites·4 claims
- 0599US6850443B2Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systemsSANDISK CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 1, 2005·424 cites·12 claims
- 0699US6230233B1Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systemsSANDISK CORP·Filed 1991·Granted May 8, 2001·824 cites·33 claims
- 0799US6081447AWear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systemsSANDISK CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 27, 2000·516 cites·6 claims
- 0898US7353325B2Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systemsSANDISK CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 1, 2008·68 cites·8 claims
- 0998US7330323B1Disk drive determining a head-switch preheat period used to format a diskWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 12, 2008·155 cites·18 claims
- 1098US7114029B1Disk drive employing a multi-phase rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithmWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 26, 2006·148 cites·12 claims
- 1198US7088538B1Adaptively estimating a read access time to a second track based upon the binned radial position of the second track within a rotating media storage deviceWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 8, 2006·139 cites·27 claims
- 1298US6654193B1Disk drive for relocating a block of data sectors near a defective servo sector to expedite write operationsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 25, 2003·157 cites·8 claims
- 1398US6594183B1Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systemsSANDISK CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 15, 2003·409 cites·19 claims
- 1497US7024614B1Disk drive employing a configuration data structure comprising a plurality of configuration parameters to facilitate disk commandsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 4, 2006·162 cites·22 claims
- 1597US6910099B1Disk drive adjusting read-ahead to optimize cache memory allocationWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 21, 2005·148 cites·14 claims
- 1697US6854022B1Disk drive using rotational position optimization algorithm to facilitate write verify operationsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 8, 2005·203 cites·22 claims
- 1796US8307156B1Adaptively modifying pre-read operations within a rotating media storage deviceCODILIAN RAFFI·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 6, 2012·135 cites·9 claims
- 1896US8134798B1Disk drive maintaining a substantially constant host transfer rate when reading data from varying data rate data tracks across multiple disk surfacesTHELIN GREGORY B·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 13, 2012·138 cites·23 claims
- 1996US6965966B1Disk drive pre-computing seek parameters for a continuation track and a next command to facilitate continuing a read-ahead or aborting the read-aheadWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 15, 2005·139 cites·12 claims
- 2096US6961814B1Disk drive maintaining a cache link attribute for each of a plurality of allocation statesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 1, 2005·149 cites·26 claims
- 2196US6845405B1Disk drive executing part of a linked disk commandWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 18, 2005·149 cites·26 claims
- 2296US6711628B1Disk drive aborting a write command before a last target sector reached if an abnormal condition detected and selecting a second command according to a rotational positioning optimization algorithmWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 23, 2004·146 cites·20 claims
- 2396US6606714B1Disk drive using defect list to perform uninterrupted writing of non-relocated data blocks and caching of relocated data blocks for deferred writingWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 12, 2003·148 cites·8 claims
- 2495US7082494B1Disk drive executing a preemptive multitasking operating system comprising tasks of varying priorityWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 25, 2006·200 cites·38 claims
- 2594US11200911B1Data storage device employing partial codeword writes to magnetic mediaWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 14, 2021·5 cites·19 claims
- 2694US8904091B1High performance media transport manager architecture for data storage systemsGUDA CHANDRA M·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 2, 2014·36 cites·18 claims
- 2749US9106592B1Controller and method for controlling a buffered data transfer deviceARIMURA KENNETH K·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 11, 2015·2 cites·21 claims
- 2845US11657847B1Dynamic track interference write counting for magnetic disksWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2022·Granted May 23, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 2939US2008162798A1Wear leveling techniques for flash eeprom systemsLOFGREN KARL M J·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
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