Expandable wireless storage device for streaming a multi-media file

摘要

An expandable wireless storage device is provided that includes an interface slot, internal memory, a wireless interface and an aggregated file system view providing component. An external memory, which stores a first subset of multi-media files, can be physically coupled with the expandable wireless storage device using the interface slot. A second subset of multi-media files can be stored on the internal memory. A multi-media file of the multi-media files can be streamed to a playing device using the wireless interface. The internal memory is used as a buffer when the multi-media file resides on the external memory. An aggregated file system view providing component provides an aggregated file system view of the multi-media files.

主权项

1. A method of streaming a multi-media file using an expandable wireless storage device, the method comprises:
detecting that external memory has been physically coupled with an expandable wireless storage device that has internal memory; presenting an aggregated file system view to a user of the expandable storage device of the multi-media files that reside on the external memory and the internal memory, wherein the aggregated file system view presents to a user the mufti-media files that reside on the internal memory and the external memory as if the multi-media files resided on the same memory; and streaming a multi-media file to a playing device in response to a selection of the multi-media file from the multi-media files presented in the aggregated file system view.