Patent ID: 7484020

Claim:
A Secure Digital Input Output wireless communications card comprising: a Secure Digital Input Output controller comprising: (i) a Secure Digital interface operably connectable with the Secure Digital Input Output host device to decode commands received from the Secure Digital Input Output host device, and to return a response to the Secure Digital Input Output host device; (ii) application interfaces selected from the group consisting of a PCMCIA interface, a PC card bus interface, and a UART interface; (iii) a temporary memory operably connected between the Secure Digital interface and one or more application interfaces; (b) a wireless communications module operably connected to the Secure Digital Input Output controller via the one or more application interfaces; (c) a Secure Digital Input Output compliant card enclosure, wherein the Secure Digital Input Output controller and the wireless communications module are disposed within the enclosure; and (d) a First-in, First-out controller comprising a direct memory access controller operably connected to transfer data between the temporary memory and the application interfaces.