Portable storage device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorNasrollah A. Kavian
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Abstract
Portable storage devices and methods of configuring portable storage devices are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method for configuring a portable storage device may include receiving user input on a portable storage device indicating a mode of operation of the portable storage device. The method may also include receiving user input on the portable storage device indicating a file selection for one of a plurality of image files stored on the portable storage device. The method may also include providing access by an external computer system to the selected image file based on the selected mode of operation.
Claims18
A portable storage device, comprising:
- a USB connection for connecting a memory component in the portable storage device to a separate computer system;
- an I/O interface for translating electrical signals received from the separate computer system by the USB connection into read/write requests at the portable storage device based on a user-selected mode of operation;
- a memory controller operatively associated with the I/O interface, the memory controller handling the read/write requests to provide access by the computer system to a plurality of image files stored in the memory component;
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- a switching element, the switching element operable by a user to select between different modes of operation, wherein the modes of operation are a read/write mode and a drive-emulating mode.
A portable storage device, comprising:
- a memory component;
- a USB connection for connecting the memory component to a separate computer system;
- and
- at least one switching element operatively associated with the memory component, the at least one switching element operable by a user to select between at least different modes of operation;
- and
- translating electrical signals received from the separate computer system by the USB connection into read/write requests at the portable storage device based on the different modes of operation, wherein the modes of operation are a read/write mode and a drive-emulating mode.
A method for configuring a portable storage device, comprising:
- receiving user input on the portable storage device indicating a mode of operation of the portable storage device, wherein the modes of operation are a read/write mode and a drive-emulating mode;
- receiving user input on the portable storage device indicating a file selection for one of a plurality of image files stored on the portable storage device;
- and
- providing access by an external computer system to the selected image file based on the selected mode of operation.
A portable storage device, comprising:
- a USB connection for connecting a memory component in the portable storage device to a separate computer system;
- an I/O interface for translating electrical signals received from the separate computer system by the USB connection into read/write requests at the portable storage device based on a user-selected mode of operation;
- a memory controller operatively associated with the I/O interface, the memory controller handling the read/write requests to provide access by the computer system to a plurality of image files stored in the memory component, wherein the memory component includes a plurality of individual data stores, each data store configured to store only one of the plurality of image files.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.