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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2008
Applicant:
Masahiro Hatada, Kanazawa, JP;
Inventor:
Masahiro Hatada, Kanazawa, JP;
Assignee:
I-O Data Device, Inc., Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A USB portable device includes an activating USB peripheral, a storing USB peripheral, and a controlling USB peripheral. If the USB portable device is connected to a host apparatus, the activating USB peripheral is recognized as a readable device and a switching program in the recognized readable device is read in the host apparatus and is executed. Consequently, a switching instruction is received from the host apparatus, the readable device is unmounted, and the storing USB peripheral is recognized as the readable device.