Co-existing dedicated system software and read/writeable data storage space on removable media
a technology of read/writeable data and removable media, applied in the field of software exchange and upgrade, can solve the problems of software being subject to accidental erasure, complex hardware, diversified,
Inactive Publication Date: 2006-03-30
SPECTRA LOGIC
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[0011] Yet a further embodiment of the present invention can also comprise a mobile data storage media adapted for operability with a drive device comprising: a data space accessible by an end user; and a drive software space accessible by the drive device and inaccessible by an end user wherein the drive software space is adapted to accommodate firmware for use by the drive device and the reading and writing of firmware by the drive device, and wherein the media is adapted to receive and store a higher order software from the drive device automatically if the media does not contain the higher order software or the media is adapted to transmit the higher order software to the drive device if the drive device does not contain the higher order firmware.
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Not only has hardware become smaller and more streamlined, hardware has become more complex and diversified.
In some cases, a user may load software onto mobile media for use as described, but that software may be subject to accidental erasure or if “burned” onto a media, and a user only has read access from there on out.
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[0028] Referring to the drawings in general, and more particularly to FIG. 1A, shown therein is a pictorial representation of a mobile readable and writeable media of configuration 100 constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. In what follows, similar or identical structure is identified using identical callouts.
[0029] Configuration 100 is a diagrammatic illustration of a mobile readable and writeable media having data space 104 accessible for use by an end user and having drive device software space 102 allocated for a drive device. FIG. 1B is an alternative embodiment to 100 illustrating two data spaces 104 and two drive device software spaces 102. Here, in FIG. 1B, the drive software space 102 and the user data space 104 are not contiguous. The mobile readable and writeable media 100 has many equivalence embodying different forms, such as a floppy disc, removable hard disc, a thumb or flash memory media, compact disc (CD) or other optical digital med...
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Disclosed is a method and apparatus for mobile media with both dedicated readable and writeable user data space and dedicated readable and writeable drive device space. The mobile data storage media adapted for operatively working with a drive device comprises a data space accessible by an end user and a drive software space accessible by the drive device and inaccessible by an end user. The drive software space is adapted to accommodate firmware for use by the drive device in addition to the reading and writing of software by the drive device. The media is adapted to receive and store software from the drive device or, alternatively, is adapted to transmit software to the drive device.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] None. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates generally to software exchanges and upgrades. More particularly, the present invention relates to exchanging software between a dedicated space on a mobile storage media with a drive device adapted for use with the memory media. BACKGROUND [0003] Storage technology has been on an aggressive trajectory of minimization with hardware and related devices coinciding with an explosive growth in memory capacity. Not only has hardware become smaller and more streamlined, hardware has become more complex and diversified. The once stationary “all-in-one” gigantic machines that dominated computing have diversified to include modular components with high mobility. This is evidenced by mobile storage media adapted to insert into a drive device connected to a computing system for use by an end user. [0004] Modern computing systems generally function by means of an operating system, of ...
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IPC IPC(8): G06F9/445
CPCG06F9/445
Inventor STARR, MATTHEW THOMASLANTRY, MARK LORIN
Owner SPECTRA LOGIC