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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2006
Ben Wei Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
David Sun, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
George K. L. Shiu, S. Pasadena, CA (US);
Ben Wei Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
David Sun, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
George K. L. Shiu, S. Pasadena, CA (US);
Kingston Technology Corporation, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and system for expanding the memory capacity of devices that use flash memory cards. In one aspect, a memory card expander assembly includes an adaptor shaped to be connected to a memory card slot of a host device, and a receptacle assembly in communication with the adaptor and operative to be attached to the host device. The receptacle assembly includes an expanded memory card slot operative to connect to a memory card such that the host device can communicate with the connected memory card when the adaptor is connected to the memory card slot.