Patent ID: 8259621

Claim:
A method for simultaneously supporting network sharing and data synchronization, suitable for a first operating system (OS) and a second OS, wherein the first OS connects to a network, and the second OS only connects to the network through the first OS, the method comprising: establishing a virtual network between the first OS and the second OS via a physical cable, wherein the first OS is an embedded OS and the second OS is a non-embedded OS, and the data in the first OS and in the second OS are externally coupled and stored in two different physical devices; and connecting the first OS and the second OS by the virtual network to directly synchronize a plurality of data stored in the first OS and the second OS through the virtual network and to connect the second OS to the network through the first OS and the virtual network; and performing data synchronization between the first OS and the second OS and simultaneously having the second OS accessing the network through the first OS.