Portable data transfer and mass storage device for removable memory modules
AssigneeSmartDisk Corporation
InventorsMichael S. Battaglia, Offie Lee Drennan
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Abstract
A hand-held battery powered device for transferring data between one or more flash memory modules and a mass storage device. The device includes one or more slots to accept a flash memory module into a housing which includes fixed or removable mass storage device and logic circuitry disposed within the housing for transferring data between the flash memory module and mass storage device. Ports are disclosed for transferring data from the resident mass storage device to the user's computer.
Claims15
For use in transferring image data between a removable digital memory module and a user's computer, a portable, hand-held, digital camera picture image data transfer and repository device embodied in a housing connectable to both a removable memory module and a user's notebook or desktop computer and which is of a size which can be held in a user's palm, said repository device comprising:
- a housing of a size to be held in the palm of a user's hand and including a memory input port sized to receive a digital camera memory module and including an output port for coupling said portable repository device to a user's computer;
- a mass storage device operatively coupled to receive and store picture image data from a digital camera memory module inserted into said memory input port and for storing said image data, said mass storage device being accessible for downloading said image data to a user's computer;
- a user operable control key for initiating a copy operation for copying image data stored in said memory module to said mass storage device;
- processing circuitry for controlling the transfer of data stored in said digital camera module inserted into said memory input port to said mass storage device, said processing circuitry being operable responsive to a user's actuation of said control key to initiate a copy operation and to verify that the copy operation has been correctly performed;
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- an output interface, coupled to said mass storage device, for use in transferring image data stored in said mass storage device to said user's computer, said output interface being compatible with an interface of said user's computer.
For use in transferring data between a removable flash memory module and a user's computer, a portable, hand-held, general purpose, digital data transfer and repository device embodied in a housing connectable to both a removable memory module and a user's notebook or desktop computer and which is of a size which can be held in a user's palm, said repository device comprising:
- a housing of a size to be held in the palm of a user's hand and including a memory insertion section for receiving a digital memory module having at least one digital data structure having a predetermined name, and including an output port for coupling said portable repository device to a user's computer,
- a mass storage device contained within said hand-held housing and operatively coupled to receive and store digital data from said digital memory module, said mass storage device being accessible for data transfer between said portable repository device and a user's computer;
- at least one user operable key for permitting a user to change the name of said at least one digital data structure;
- processing circuitry contained within said hand-held housing for controlling the transfer of data stored in said digital memory module to said mass storage device, said processing circuitry being operable in response to a user's actuation of said at least one user operable key to change the name of said digital data structure;
- a display device for displaying data relating to the contents of said digital memory module;
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- an output interface, coupled to said mass storage device, for use in transferring data between said mass storage device and said user's computer, said output interface being compatible with an interface of said user's computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.