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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
David Q. Chow, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles C. Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Frank I-kang Yu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ming-shiang Shen, Taipei, TW;
David Q. Chow, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles C. Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Frank I-Kang Yu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ming-Shiang Shen, Taipei, TW;
Super Talent Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An extended universal serial bus (USB) card reader device is described herein. In one embodiment, a card reader includes a first extended USB (EUSB) connector to be coupled to an external host system, multiple flash memory card sockets capable of receiving multiple flash memory cards inserted therein, multiple flash controllers coupled to the plurality of flash memory card sockets respectively. The card reader further includes a memory for storing executable code, a processor coupled to each of the flash controllers for executing the executable code to control each of the plurality of flash controllers in order to access the corresponding flash memory card inserted therein. The card reader further includes a second EUSB connector to be coupled to an external EUSB device using the extended USB protocols, which is one of an EUSB slave device and an EUSB hub device. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.