Patent ID: 7832645

Claim:
A memory card expander assembly comprising: an adaptor shaped to be connected to a memory card slot of a handheld or portable host device, the host device having a housing; a receptacle assembly having a receptacle assembly housing and in communication with the adaptor and including an attachment mechanism operative to physically attach the receptacle assembly housing to the housing of the host device while the adaptor is connected to the memory card slot, wherein the receptacle assembly includes an expanded memory card slot shaped to connect to a memory card such that the host device communicates with the connected memory card when the adaptor is connected to the memory card slot; and a flexible cable connecting the adaptor to the receptacle assembly, wherein at least a portion of the flexible cable is retractable and stored on a spool in the receptacle assembly housing, the flexible cable being extendable to variable lengths to accommodate the distance from the attached receptacle assembly to the memory card slot of the host device.