Patent ID: 7213088
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A mass storage apparatus comprising: a user interface for accepting user commands to the mass storage apparatus; a mass storage that reads from and writes to an external control device, the external control device being separate and external to the mass storage apparatus; an output device outputting data stored in the mass storage; and control means that interprets a command received from the external control device in a state of a connection with the external control device and performs output processing to the output device if the control means determines that the received command is an output command for giving an instruction for outputting the data previously stored in the mass storage to the output device, wherein the data previously stored in the mass storage comprises text data and at least one of graphic data and audio data, and wherein, when the outputted data is audio data, the audio data is outputted in an audible manner.