Electronic device and electronic device system
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuaki Amemura
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Abstract
A BIOS storage unit of an electronic device is connected to a USB 3.0 extension unit of a USB 3.0 host connector. A microcomputer of a USB compatible device is connected to a USB 3.0 extension unit of a USB 3.0 device connector. The microcomputer of the USB compatible device can write and read the BIOS data to/from the BIOS storage unit of the electronic device through the USB 3.0 extension units. Moreover, the microcomputer of the USB compatible device compares the BIOS data read from the BIOS storage unit of the electronic device with the BIOS data stored in its own storage unit, and notifies a result of the comparison.
Claims7
-5. (canceled)
An electronic device including a USB connector for a USB 3.0 interface having nine terminals from a first terminal to a ninth terminal, the electronic device comprising:
- a storage unit for storing BIOS data,
- wherein the storage unit is configured to be accessible from an external device through at least one terminal among the fifth to the ninth terminals in the USB connector.
An electronic device including a USB connector for a USB 3.0 interface having nine terminals from a first terminal to a ninth terminal, the electronic device comprising:
- a data storage unit storing BIOS data;
- and
- a sending-out unit that sends out the BIOS data stored in the data storage unit to an external device through at least one terminal among the fifth to the ninth terminals in the USB connector.
An electronic device system comprising:
- a first electronic device including a first USB connector for a USB 3.0 interface having nine terminals from a first terminal to a ninth terminal;
- and
- a second electronic device including a second USB connector for a USB 3.0 interface having nine terminals from a first terminal to a ninth terminal,
- the first electronic device being connected to the second electronic device through the first USB connector and the second USB connector, wherein
- the first electronic device includes a storage unit for storing BIOS data, the storage unit being configured to be accessible from an external device through at least one terminal among the fifth to the ninth terminals in the first USB connector, and
- the second electronic device includes:
- a data storage unit storing BIOS data, and
- a writing unit that sends out the BIOS data stored in the data storage unit to the first electronic device through at least one terminal among the fifth to the ninth terminals in the second USB connector, and writes the BIOS data to the storage unit of the first electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.