| 摘要 |
<p>A System for providing removable, active, personal storage. The device itself (10) features sufficient computational power (18, 32, 38) and resources (24, 26, 32, 22) to perform various tasks with regard to data storage and retrieval. In particular, these resources are provided such that the management of the memory of the storage device is performed at the device level, rather than requiring management by an external operating system, such as the operating system of an external computational device. At a minimum, the device features a data processor of some type for executing instructions relating to memory management (32), a flash memory device for storing the data and instructions (20), a flash controller for controlling access to a flash memory device (22), a USB controller (24) and a USB connector (26), for connecting the device to an external computational device through the USB bus (14) of the external computational device (12).</p> |
