Patent ID: 8725840

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a first request at a data storage device from a host device to provide information to the host device, wherein the data storage device includes a local web-server and is at least one of a flash-memory device, a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, and a memory card, and wherein the local web-server provides local data residing in the host device, and wherein the data storage device is attached to or embedded within the host device; and in response to receipt of the first request, autonomously initiating, by the local web-server, an exchange of the information via a network interface of the host device between the local web-server and a remote web-server by sending a second request for the information to the remote web-server, wherein the exchange is autonomously initiated conditioned on a determination that the information is not stored in the data storage device, and wherein the exchange between the local web-server and the remote web-server occurs without the host device providing a man-machine interface.