| US 7,555,582 B2 | ||
| Portable universal serial bus memory devices and methods for using such devices | ||
| Grady David Lambert, 26 New Pond Rd., Groton, Mass. 01450 (US); Joydeep Chowdhury, 10808 Ashland Mill Ct., Raleigh, N.C. 27617 (US); Carson Stuart, 903 Emory Dr., Chapel Hill, N.C. 27517 (US); and Ryan McDaniel, 1 Cayuga Dr., Hudson, Mass. 01749 (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 15, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/640,527. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0147899 A1, Jun. 19, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 710—74 [710/62; 710/72] | 6 Claims |
| 1. A portable memory device, comprising:
a casing having a form factor;
a flash-based hard drive in the casing;
a serial data bus in the casing and coupled to the hard drive, wherein the serial data bus is configured to read data from
and write data to the hard drive; and
a connector coupled to the serial data bus and having a plurality of pins configured to transfer signals to and from the memory
device, and wherein the pins are configured to interface with a fifty pin socket of a host device,
wherein the fifty pin socket includes pin locations 1 through 50 arranged in a pattern corresponding to a standard socket
configuration; and
the connector includes two power lines, seven ground lines, a first data line, a second data line, a reset line, a write protect
line, a card detect line, and a status line, and wherein the connector does not include pins corresponding to the remaining
pin locations of the fifty pin socket.
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