Removable device and program startup method
AssigneeSaslite, Corp.
InventorsShinya Kobayashi, Shinji Uematsu
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Abstract
The present invention provides a highly convenient removable device and a program startup method. A hub division unit 31 in a single composite device 2 allocates data exchange with the computer 1 side to a plurality of devices, thereby easily realizing a plurality of functions. When connected to a USB, a recognition control unit 32 returns a signal representing a CD-ROM in a simulated manner in response to inquiry about the type of the device from the host side. When a device is mounted, a desired processing such as a program execution described in the script is automatically performed without installing a resident program for detecting a device mounting in advance in the computer side.
Claims13
A removable device which is attached/detached to/from a universal peripheral device interface of a computer executing an automatic startup script stored in a device of a specified type when the device is connected thereto, comprising:
- a ROM or a read-writable storage device as a main storage device;
- and
- a simulation unit configured to return a signal indicating that the device is of a specified type in which an automatic startup script is stored in the storage device and executed by a computer to which the device is attached, in response to an inquiry signal concerning the type of the device sent from the computer upon connection to the universal peripheral device interface.
7-8. (canceled)
A method for launching a program, comprising:
- executing an installer program for installing a detection program, which is stored in a removable device attached/detached to/from a universal peripheral device interface of a computer, such that the detection program is installed in the computer;
- executing the detection program a computer in advance;
- and
- launching, when the removable device is attached to a universal peripheral device interface of the computer, a program corresponding to specified data in the removable device by the detection program.
A removable device attached/detached to/from a universal peripheral device interface of a computer, comprising:
- a ROM or read-writable storage device as its main storage device;
- a boot controller configured to send a reply representing a flexible disk drive in response to access from a BIOS of the computer via the universal peripheral device interface and to boot the computer by providing information stored in the storage device and used for starting an operating system of the computer.
A removable device which is attached/detached to/from a universal peripheral device interface of a computer executing an automatic startup script stored in a device of a specified type when the device is connected thereto, comprising:
- a ROM or a read-writable storage device as a main storage device;
- and
- means for returning a signal indicating that the device is of a specified type in which an automatic startup script is stored in the storage device and executed by a computer to which the device is attached, in response to an inquiry signal concerning the type of the device sent from the computer upon connection to the universal peripheral device interface.
A removable device attached/detached to/from a universal peripheral device interface of a computer, comprising:
- a ROM or read-writable storage device as its main storage device;
- and
- means for sending a reply representing a flexible disk drive in response to access from a BIOS of the computer via the universal peripheral device interface and booting the computer by providing information stored in the storage device and used for starting an operating system of the computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.