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Kent D. Anderson
Also filed as: ANDERSON KENT · ANDERSON KENT D · ANDERSON KENT DOUGLAS
42 granted patents·1,621 citations·filing 1988–2021
98Inventor score
Files withWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC19CIRRUS LOGIC INC8AMERICAN TEL A SYSTEMS INC5SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC3ANDERSON KENT D2
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42 records- 0199US5406279AGeneral purpose, hash-based technique for single-pass lossless data compressionCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1992·Granted Apr 11, 1995·273 cites·96 claims
- 0298US8593753B1Touchdown detectionANDERSON KENT D·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 26, 2013·140 cites·21 claims
- 0398US8000053B1Write jog value determination for a disk driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 16, 2011·115 cites·28 claims
- 0497US9059742B1System and method for dynamic scaling of LDPC decoder in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 16, 2015·41 cites·26 claims
- 0597US7365671B1Communication channel with undersampled interpolative timing recoverySEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 29, 2008·65 cites·19 claims
- 0697US5291499AMethod and apparatus for reduced-complexity viterbi-type sequence detectorsCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1992·Granted Mar 1, 1994·150 cites·29 claims
- 0796US8773802B1Disk drive resetting fly height reference generated from a degrading calibration trackANDERSON KENT D·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 8, 2014·120 cites·20 claims
- 0895US5424881ASynchronous read channelCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1993·Granted Jun 13, 1995·81 cites·7 claims
- 0994US9214963B1Method and system for monitoring data channel to enable use of dynamically adjustable LDPC coding parameters in a data storage systemWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 15, 2015·22 cites·33 claims
- 1092US7196644B1Decoupling of analog input and digital outputSEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 27, 2007·83 cites·6 claims
- 1192US5812334ASynchronous read channel employing discrete timing recovery, transition detector, and sequence detectorCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1994·Granted Sep 22, 1998·34 cites·44 claims
- 1289US9251856B1Read failover method and apparatus for a data storage systemWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 2, 2016·14 cites·22 claims
- 1388US10951233B2System and method for decoding iterations and dynamic scalingWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 16, 2021·4 cites·20 claims
- 1488US8856615B1Data storage device tracking log-likelihood ratio for a decoder based on past performanceKRISHNAN ANANTHA RAMAN·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 7, 2014·15 cites·24 claims
- 1588US7549654B2Wheel-mounted wire rack system for shipping, storage, and deliveryUNIFIRST CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 23, 2009·55 cites·2 claims
- 1688US6021011ASynchronous read channel employing a digital center frequency setting for a variable frequency oscillator in discrete time timing recoveryCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 1, 2000·30 cites·11 claims
- 1787US6959412B2Error correction coding utilizing numerical base conversion for modulation codingSEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 25, 2005·23 cites·35 claims
- 1886US10374634B2Read tail latency reductionWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Aug 6, 2019·5 cites·26 claims
- 1986US10061640B1Soft-decision input generation for data storage systemsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 28, 2018·7 cites·18 claims
- 2085US9350391B1System and method for dynamic scaling of LDPC decoder in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 24, 2016·4 cites·12 claims
- 2184US7957370B2Synchronous read channelLAKE CHEROKEE HARD DRIVE TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 7, 2011·4 cites·22 claims
- 2284US4916726ATelephone answering service with integrated voice and textual message storageAMERICAN TEL A SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1988·Granted Apr 10, 1990·77 cites·51 claims
- 2380US5903857AMethod 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
- 2480US5844738ASynchronous read channel employing a sequence detector with programmable detector levelsCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 1, 1998·17 cites·10 claims
- 2579US5978162ASynchronous read channel integrated circuit employing a channel quality circuit for calibrationCIRRUS LOGIC INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 2, 1999·23 cites·15 claims
- 2675US10528265B1Write latency reductionWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jan 7, 2020·2 cites·30 claims
- 2773US11630722B2Method and system for decoding data based on association of first memory location and second memory locationWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2021·Granted Apr 18, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 2872US8990668B2Decoding data stored in solid-state memoryWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 24, 2015·4 cites·30 claims
- 2970US5469491ATelephone answering service with integrated voice and textual message storageAMERICAN TEL A SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1994·Granted Nov 21, 1995·46 cites·80 claims
- 3069US5420852ADigital switching system connecting buses with incompatible protocols and telephone answering system and private automatic branch exchange with integrated voice and textual message recordingAMERICAN TEL A SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1992·Granted May 30, 1995·57 cites·57 claims
- 3168US11175983B2Soft-decision input generation for data storage systemsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 16, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 3267US5113429ATelephone answering service with integrated voice and textual message storageAMERICAN TEL A SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1990·Granted May 12, 1992·51 cites·19 claims
- 3365US9053749B1Disk drive comprising a per-drive and per-head fly height filterWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 9, 2015·1 cites·24 claims
- 3463US10635524B1Soft-decision input generation for data storage systemsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 28, 2020·0 cites·17 claims
- 3558US7379452B2Synchronous read channelBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2001·Granted May 27, 2008·1 cites·23 claims
- 3654US10389381B2System and method for dynamic scaling of LDPC decoder in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Aug 20, 2019·0 cites·20 claims
- 3751US9985652B2System and method for dynamic scaling of LDPC decoder in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted May 29, 2018·0 cites·20 claims
- 3848US10770431B1Memory die layouts for failure protection in SSDsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 8, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 3948US10635327B2Data availability during memory inaccessibilityWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 28, 2020·0 cites·16 claims
- 4043US5259024ATelephone answering service with integrated voice and textual message storageAMERICA TEL A SYSTEM INC·Filed 1992·Granted Nov 2, 1993·14 cites·22 claims
- 4140US5341368ADigital switching system interconnecting buses with imcompatible protocolsAMERICAN TEL A SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1992·Granted Aug 23, 1994·9 cites·52 claims
- 4238US10372344B2Read tail latency reductionWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Aug 6, 2019·0 cites·27 claims
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