Control device connected to external device
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsAtsushi Miyagaki, Dai Taninaka
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Abstract
The control device is a device which can be connected to an external device that transmits data, comprising a computer program which analyzes data received from the abovementioned external device using data format information related to the format of the data, wherein the abovementioned data format information is stored in a separate location from said computer program.
Claims11
A control device which can be connected to a host computer that outputs access destination data indicating an access destination and an external storage control device which has one or more external storage devices, and which transmits external data constituting data that relates to the external storage devices, comprising:
- a memory part which stores external device information that indicates which external storage device is associated with which access destination data;
- and
- a control part which receives access destination data from said host computer, specifies the external storage device that corresponds to said received access destination data by referring to said external device information, and accesses said specified external storage device;
- wherein
- said control part comprises a computer program that refers to data format information relating to the format of said external data, and analyzes said external data received from said external storage control device, and
- said memory part stores said data format information that is referred to by said computer program.
A control device which can be connected to an external device that transmits data, comprising a computer program which analyzes data received from said external device using data format information related to the format of the data, wherein said data format information is stored in a separate location from said computer program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.