Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-standard protocol storage devices
- Patent Title (中): 多标准协议存储设备
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Application No.: US12107630Application Date: 2008-04-22
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Publication No.: US07711865B2Publication Date: 2010-05-04
- Inventor: Yong-hyeon Kim , Tae-keun Jeon , Seong-hyun Kim
- Applicant: Yong-hyeon Kim , Tae-keun Jeon , Seong-hyun Kim
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F13/12

Abstract:
A movable storage device combined with a smart card can include a plurality of signal pins that are connected to at least one of a plurality of memory card hosts that use different communications protocols from each other or a smart card host, and at least one signal pin that is used as a mode distinguishing pin. A mode deciding unit can decide on an operation mode, which can be a smart card mode and/or a memory card mode based on a level of a first initial input signal received from the mode distinguishing pin. A smart card module can communicate with a smart card host in a smart card mode and a memory card module can be interfaced with memory card hosts, and communicates with a memory card host connected in a memory card mode and stores data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080191034A1 MULTI-STANDARD PROTOCOL STORAGE DEVICES Public/Granted day:2008-08-14
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