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US 2009/0125683 A1Published application
Portable auxiliary storage device
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsSatoshi Okamoto, Taiho Nakazawa, Sadatoshi Chozui, Koichi Morioka
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Abstract
Versatility of a memory card is improved by providing a memory card wherein data protection mode and normal mode can be selected at discretion.
Claims5
A portable auxiliary storage device comprising:
- a mode setting section for allowing a user to set normal mode for permitting reading a data stored in a memory section or writing a data to the memory section without restriction and data protection mode for restricting the reading or writing;
- a mode detecting section for detecting the mode set in the mode setting section;
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- a memory access control section for controlling the read or write according to a state of the mode setting section detected by the mode detecting section.
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