Patent ID: 7496493

Claim:
A memory device attachable to a host computer system, the memory device comprising: an interface to couple the memory device to the host computer system; and a controller for controlling operations in the memory device by enabling: a first mode of operation in which the memory device communicates with the host computer system through the interface by emulating a disk device; a second mode of operation in which the memory device communicates with the host computer system through the interface by emulating an optical device, wherein upon connection of the memory device to the host computer system, the controller communicates the first and second modes of operation to the host computer system such that the host computer system upon a display device displays icons associated with the disk device and the optical device for selection by a user; and a translator operable with the controller, the translator to translate optical device data and disk device data received from the host computer system into a memory format for storage in a memory and to translate data requested by the host computer system from the memory into one of an optical device format or a disk device format.