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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
May. 21, 2003
Dennis M. Summers, Port Orchard, WA (US);
Mark A. Green, Berthoud, CO (US);
Gregory P. Fry, Portland, OR (US);
David A. Coleman, Silverdale, WA (US);
Donald J. Mapes, Bremerton, WA (US);
Dennis M. Summers, Port Orchard, WA (US);
Mark A. Green, Berthoud, CO (US);
Gregory P. Fry, Portland, OR (US);
David A. Coleman, Silverdale, WA (US);
Donald J. Mapes, Bremerton, WA (US);
Sonic Solutions, Inc., Novato, CA (US);
Abstract
An invention is provided for automatically formatting removable media at the application level. The method includes intercepting a write request to write to removable media, and determining if the removable media is unformatted. When the removable media is unformatted, the removable media is automatically prepared for content. The write request is then provided to an operating system, which performs a write operation on the removable media. In one aspect, the method can determine whether the write request is directed to a supported drive, which is a drive within a predetermined set of supported drives. In this aspect, if the write request is not directed to a supported drive, the write request can be provided to the operating system without formatting the removable media.