Platform-independent preference setting method

• US 20070036463A1
• Filed: 07/20/2006
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lite-On It Corporation (Lite-On Technology Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lite-On It Corporation (Lite-On Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: Mao, Lu-Kang
• Application Number:
  US11/490,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20070036463A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/284
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

A platform-independent preference-setting method is used between a first electronic device, a second electronic device and a portable storage medium. The second electronic device includes a built-in memory. In the platform-independent preference-setting method, the portable storage medium is inserted into the first electronic device, which has been installed therein a first application program; the first application program is executed to generate a set of preference-setting parameters and to store the set of preference-setting parameters into the portable storage medium; the portable storage medium is removed from the first electronic device and is inserted into the second electronic device, which has been installed therein a second application program; and, said second application program is executed to read at least one parameter of the set of preference-setting parameters and to store the at least one parameter into the built-in memory of the second electronic device at a preset address.

Claims

1. A platform-independent preference setting method used between a first electronic device, a second electronic device and a portable storage medium, the second electronic device having a built-in memory therein, the platform-independent preference setting method comprising steps of:

inserting the portable storage medium into the first electronic device, which has been installed therein a first application program;

executing said first application program to generate a set of preference-setting parameters and storing the set of preference-setting parameters into the portable storage medium;

removing the portable storage medium from the first electronic device and inserting the portable storage medium into the second electronic device, which has been installed therein a second application program; and

executing said second application program to read at least one parameter of the set of preference-setting parameters and storing the at least one parameter into the built-in memory of the second electronic device at a preset address.

2. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 1 wherein the first electronic device and the second electronic device are a mobile phone and a personal digital assistant, respectively.

3. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 2 wherein the portable storage medium is a memory card.

4. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 3 wherein the first electronic device and the second electronic device have respective memory card slots for receiving the memory card therein.

5. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 2 wherein the portable storage medium is a USB flash drive.

6. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 5 wherein the first electronic device and the second electronic device have respective USB connecting ports for receiving the USB flash drive therein.

7. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 1 wherein the first electronic device and the second electronic device are a personal computer and a DVD recorder, respectively.

8. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 7 wherein the portable storage medium is a recordable optical disc.

9. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 1 wherein said first application program is executed in a first operation platform to generate a first function option operation interface a display screen of the first electronic device.

10. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 9 wherein said second application program is executed in a second operation platform to generate a second function option operation interface a display screen of the second electronic device.

11. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 1 wherein the set of preference-setting parameters are written in a plain text format.

12. The platform-independent preference setting method according to claim 1 wherein the built-in memory of the second electronic device is a nonvolatile memory.