MAXTOR CORPORATION
722Patents
63Active
722Granted
49Portfolio score
Filing activity: Nov 24, 1982 → Feb 19, 2010 · 62 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6336174B1 | Hardware assisted memory backup system and method | Physics | 257 | Expired |
| US6738205B1 | Self-writing of servo patterns in disk drives | Physics | 183 | Expired |
| US5282247A | Apparatus and method for providing data security in a computer system having removable memory | Physics | 179 | Expired |
| US6381726B1 | Architecture for soft decision decoding of linear block error correcting codes | Electricity | 166 | Expired |
| US6519107B1 | Hard disk drive having self-written servo burst patterns | Physics | 165 | Expired |
| US5237675A | Apparatus and method for efficient organization of compressed data on a hard disk utilizing an estimated compression factor | Physics | 157 | Expired |
| US6883079B1 | Method and apparatus for using data compression as a means of increasing buffer bandwidth | Physics | 147 | Expired |
| US6487646B1 | Apparatus and method capable of restricting access to a data storage device | Physics | 137 | Expired |
| US5454157A | Method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed disk drive | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 131 | Expired |
| US6304407A | Self-writing of servo patterns based on printed reference pattern in rotating disk drive | Physics | 118 | Expired |
| US6374383B1 | Determining error locations using error correction codes | Electricity | 114 | Expired |
| US5546250A | Elastomer gasket that extends around the outer edge of a hard drive | Physics | 113 | Expired |
| US6975123B1 | Method and apparatus for calibrating piezoelectric driver in dual actuator disk drive | Physics | 108 | Expired |
| US5381528A | Demand allocation of read/write buffer partitions favoring sequential read cache | Physics | 105 | Expired |
| US6637002B1 | Decoder for error correcting block codes | Electricity | 104 | Expired |
| US6704156B1 | Self-writing of servo patterns in a disk drive using a printed reference pattern | Physics | 102 | Expired |
| US6560747B1 | Error counting mechanism | Electricity | 98 | Expired |
| US6446236B1 | Reading encoded information subject to random and transient errors | Physics | 97 | Expired |
| US6381659B2 | Method and circuit for controlling a first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer using a bank of FIFO address registers capturing and saving beginning and ending write-pointer addresses | Physics | 94 | Expired |
| US6412042B1 | System and method for improved disk drive performance and reliability | Physics | 86 | Expired |
| US7019924B2 | Patterned medium and recording head | Physics | 84 | Expired |
| US7173783B1 | Media noise optimized detector for magnetic recording | Electricity | 83 | Expired |
| US7088533B1 | Method of self-servo writing in a disk drive using a spiral pattern | Physics | 81 | Expired |
| US7253984B1 | Disk drive that generates a position error signal and a fly height signal from a servo burst pattern | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US5103359A | Connector apparatus for electrically coupling a transducer to the electronics of a magnetic recording system | Physics | 77 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.