Patent ID: 8214556
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A peripheral device comprising: an interface configured to connect to a removable storage medium, the removable storage medium storing an action command to execute a certain action and an execution subject indicating a device to execute the action command; a detector configured to detect connection of the removable storage medium and directly in response to the connection being detected, to transmit a command to retrieve the execution subject stored in the removable storage medium to a processor; and the processor configured to acquire the execution subject from the removable storage medium in response to the command received from the detector, and to determine whether the peripheral device corresponds to the acquired execution subject stored in the removable storage medium, and to execute the action command stored in the removable storage medium when the peripheral device corresponds to the execution subject, wherein the action command stored in the removable storage medium includes a command to write information stored in the execution subject into the removable storage medium, a command to copy information stored in the execution subject to a different device, or a command to move information stored in the execution subject to a different device.