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US 2009/0024786 A1Published application
External storage device
OwnerCheng-Sheng Chan, Chih-Chin Yang +1inventors
InventorsCheng-Sheng Chan, Chih-Chin Yang, Chia-Chang Lee
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Abstract
An external storage device includes a hard-drive, a flash memory, and a memory arrangement unit. The memory arrangement determines if the tag of the data accessed by a computer stored in the tag list of the memory arrangement unit and controls the hard-drive and the flash memory according to the result of the determination.
Claims8
An external storage device comprising:
- a hard-drive for accessing data;
- a flash memory for accessing data;
- a memory arrangement unit for reading a tag of data accessed by a computer, determining if the tag is in a tag list of the memory arrangement unit, and accordingly controlling the hard-drive or the flash memory to access data with the computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.