United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,666,495 Yeh 45 Date of Patent: Sep
USOO5666495A United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,666,495 Yeh 45 Date of Patent: Sep. 9, 1997 54 METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR DATA 5,224.216 6/1993 Gordon et al.................... 395/200.01 TRANSFER BETWEEN A STANDARD PORT 5,227,953 7/1993 Lindberg et al. ... ... 361/393 OFA HOST COMPUTER AND A CUSTOM 5,265,238 11/1993 Canova, Jr. et al. ... 395/500 PORT OF A PALMTOP COMPUTER USENGA 5,301,334 4/1994 Horiuchi .............. ... 395/750 DOCKING STATION 5,313,596 5/1994 Swindler et al. ... 395/281 5,317,691 5/1994 Traeger ............ ... 364,550 5,323,291 6/1994 Boyle et al. ... 351/683 76) Inventor: Keming W. Yeh, 43765 Abeloe Ter, 5,347,425 9/1994. Herron et al. .......................... 36A683 Fremont, Calif. 94539 5,497,464 3/1996 Yeh .................................... 395/2OOO1 21 Appl. No.: 602,405 Primary Examiner-Lance Leonard Barry, Esq. 22 Filed: Feb. 16, 1996 Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel; Edward C. Kwok Related U.S. Application Data 57 ABSTRACT 60 Division of Ser. No. 975,375, Nov. 13, 1992, Pat No. A portable information storage and transfer device for use 5,528,758, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 786, with IC memory card-based portable computers obviates 483, Nov. 1, 1991, abandoned. many operations traditionally requiring a desktop computer. I51] Int. Cl. .................. G06F 3/00; G06F 13/00 The floppy disk drive in the information storage and transfer 52 U.S. Cl. .......................... 395/281; 395/500; 395/882; device allows large amount of data and software programs 395/892: 364/DIG.
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