Embedded software operating method and hardware architecture of portable drive

• US 20060036845A1
• Filed: 10/12/2004
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Transcend Information Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Transcend Information Incorporated
• Inventors: Shu, Chung Won
• Application Number:
  US10/960,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036845A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1456 Hardware arrangements for backup

Abstract

The present invention pertains to embedded software operating method and an embedded hardware architecture of a portable drive, which provides operating software to realize the operating method of the present invention; the operating software is built in a storage device of a general portable drive in order to cooperate with the hardware architecture and perform its functions. The process of the operating method of the present invention is designed to be that once the portable drive is engaged with an operating computer, the operating software will actively take the control power over the portable drive, and then compares contents of specified files in a hard disc of the operating computer with that of the portable drive, and then utilizes a mapping treatment method, provided by the present invention, to creates corresponding mapping files, and then creates associative index files for the specified files, and then dynamically traces changes in the hard disc of the operating computer, and instantaneously updates the corresponding mapping files and associative index files thus to enable the portable drive to achieve an objective of active update; while the portable drive is disengaged from the operating computer and engaged to a target computer, the operating software will actively duplicate the associative index files onto the target computer; via the associative index files and an address-translation, and in cooperation with a graphical user interface, the operating software provides a more convenient mode to directly access the corresponding mapping files of the portable drive. The present invention also provides an optional function of encrypting and compressing treatment, which is a combination of 128-bit encoding format and RC2 encoding algorithm. The present invention further provides an operating method to lock/unlock the screen and keyboard of a computer and to enable the portable drive to function as a lock/unlock key, and thus file security is promoted.

Claims

1. An embedded software operating method of a portable drive, including:

once receiving a signal of an engagement with an operating computer from a transmission interface, said embedded software operating method of said portable drive actively taking the control power over said portable drive;

scanning contents of mail-related files and a web-page-shortcut-related files in a hard disc of said operating computer, and comparing said contents with contents of said portable drive, and checking difference thereof, and then creating corresponding mapping files relating to both;

creating associative index files of said mail-related files and said web-page-shortcut-related files in said hard disc of said operating computer;

dynamically tracing an access state of said hard disc of said operating computer, and instantaneously updating said corresponding mapping files and said associative index files of said portable drive;

disengaging said portable drive from said operating computer, and engaging said portable drive to a target computer;

duplicating said associative index files in said portable drive onto a hard disc of said target computer;

while an access requirement referring to a mail-related file or a web-page-shortcut-related file in said hard disc of said target computer, via said duplicated associative index files, actively address-translating to related files of said portable drive, with the related setup and file contents in said hard disc of said target computer not involved or altered; and

disengaging said portable drive from said target computer.

2. The embedded software operating method of a portable drive according to claim 1, wherein said operating computer refers to a computer in which said mail-related file and said web-page-shortcut-related file are initially stored, and said target computer refers to a computer to which said portable drive is intended to be engaged.

3. The embedded software operating method of a portable drive according to claim 1, wherein said mail-related files is files in which files, including mail files, account setup files, and address book setup files, are stored.

4. The embedded software operating method of a portable drive according to claim 1, wherein said associative index files can be represented on the screen of said target computer in a manner of graphical user interface, and the user can directly click figural icons to access said mapping files in said portable drive.

5. The embedded software operating method of a portable drive according to claim 1, wherein said operating software can further utilize an internal compressing/decompressing and encrypting/decrypting operation to undertake a file encrypting/decrypting treatment for said portable drive.

6. The embedded software operating method of a portable drive according to claim 5, wherein said encrypting/decrypting operation is a combination of 128-bit encoding format and RC2 encoding algorithm.

7. The embedded software operating method of a portable drive according to claim 1, wherein said operating software can further lock/unlock the screen and keyboard of said operating computer in order to enter/cancel a security mode.

8. An embedded hardware architecture of a portable drive, including:

a control chip, controlling the basic transmission and access operation of files;

a storage device, being a medium for file storing

a transmission interface, linking said control chip and said storage device, and being a medium for file transferring; and

an operating software, which is built inside said portable drive to promote functions thereof, and in response to a sense of said transmission interface, actively takes a control power over said portable drive, and scans and compares mail-related files and web-page-shortcut-related files of an operating computer'"'"'s hard disc and said portable drive, and then actively creates mapping files, and creates associative index files corresponding to said mail-related files and said web-page-shortcut-related files in said hard disc of said target computer, and dynamically traces contents in said hard disc of said target computer, and instantaneously updates said mapping files and said associative index files of said portable drive, and address-translates said mail-related files and said web-page-shortcut-related files to said mapping files of said portable drive.

9. The embedded hardware architecture of a portable drive according to claim 8, wherein said operating software is built inside said storage device.

10. The embedded hardware architecture of a portable drive according to claim 8, wherein said storage device is selected from a flash memory chip, a memory card or small-sized hard discs.

11. The embedded hardware architecture of a portable drive according to claim 8, wherein said transmission interface is selected from self-powered USB2.0, USB OTG (On The Go), wireless USB, IEEE394 or SATA (Serial ATA) interface.