Patent ID: 7184264

Claim:
A memory device comprising: a housing including a top major surface and a bottom major surface connected by an edge; a memory in the housing; a host connector protruding from the edge of the housing, the host connector allowing access to the memory by a host computer upon insertion of the host connector into a host computer interface; and a first set of electrical contacts accessible through the top major surface of the housing and a second set of electrical contacts accessible through the bottom major surface of the housing, wherein at least one of the first and second set of electrical contacts allows access to another device by the host computer through the memory device upon coupling another set of electrical contacts included in the another device to the one of the first and second set of electrical contacts of the memory device such that the memory device and the another device are coupled when the host connector of the memory device is coupled with the host computer interface of the host computer and the host computer can access both the memory device and the another device trough the memory device.