Patent ID: 7850082
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An extended universal serial bus (USB) card reader device, comprising: a first extended USB (EUSB) connector to be coupled to an external host system, the first EUSB connector capable of communicating with the external host system according to extended USB protocols; a plurality of flash memory card sockets capable of receiving a plurality of flash memory cards inserted therein; a plurality of flash controllers coupled to the plurality of flash memory card sockets respectively, each corresponding to one of the flash memory card sockets and controlling the corresponding flash memory card sockets including reading and writing data from and to a flash memory card inserted in the associated socket; a memory for storing executable code; a processor coupled to each of the plurality of flash controllers, the processor executing the executable code retrieved from the memory to control each of the plurality of flash controllers in order to access the corresponding flash memory card inserted therein; and a second EUSB connector to be coupled to an external EUSB device using the extended USB protocols, wherein the external EUSB device is one of an EUSB slave device and an EUSB hub device.