Practical multi-purpose color-coded flash drive organizer with compartmentalized separate memory sectors for enhanced efficiency and better effective anti-confusion performances in global personal, educational, professional, business and organizational works

• US 9,215,820 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2012
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Antony-Euclid C. Villa-Real
• Original Assignee: Antony-Euclid C. Villa-Real
• Inventors: Villa-Real, Antony-Euclid C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zarroli, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/507,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20130027868A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,240 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/447 Shutter or cover plate
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0278 of USB type details relating to connectors H01R27/00

Abstract

Multi-purpose anti-confusing, time-saving, cost-effective hybrid flash drive organizers, methods and systems with easily recognizable color-coded external sectors, color-coded differential LED signal lights, correlating respectively with related internal/external electronic components, achieving easier organized data/information sharing, transfer, storage, retrieval and display when connected to host system; one embodiment having attachable/detachable sectors providing different combinations of USB connectors; another embodiment of with uni-body housing having one common USB prong; another embodiment with at-least a pair of USB prongs; all offering faster conveniences to millions of global flash drive users in all walks of life, providing vast applicability for numerous personal, professional, educational, organizational and business works; providing to different manufacturers, distributors and merchandisers with greater range of practical applications and marketing advantages; broadly applicable to inter-link with desktop/laptop computers, netbooks, tablet PCs or other compatible portable hand-held or stationary electronic multi-media devices.

Claims

1. A practical multi-purpose flash drive organizer device comprising of a combination of:

(a) color-coded sectors of a housing of said device configured to facilitate in aiding the user to choose which particular sector of said device is to be activated;

(b) at least one USB connector in the respective sector for electrically connecting and linking with a host computer system linked to a compatible monitor;

(c) at least one LED signal activity light, located externally of said housing, configured to turn on when the respective sector of said device is electrically linked and activated with the host system;

(d) at least one microprocessor in said device for processing data and information when actively electrically linked with a host system;

(e) at least one ROM incorporated within said device configured for storing and retrieving at least one program when actively electrically linked with a host system;

(f) at least one RAM in said device configured for storing, editing, updating, deleting, displaying, transferring and exchanging data/information when actively electrically linked with a host system;

(g) at least one cap configured for covering the respective USB connector or connectors of said device; and

(h) at least one external labeling area configured for easily writing and identifying data/information contents within said device.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the designated color-coded sectors of said housing are differentiated by certain colors for specific color-coding;

said sectors of said housing capable of being detached from each other, and, then also capable of being reconnected again and electrically linked to each other again to allow a variety of combinations of USB connectors, when at least two compatible USB connectors are needed by the user of said device.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the color-coded sectors of said housing are structurally of uni-body type and completely joined, but have separate internal components that are not linked to each other, having separate USB connectors at each end of each of the respective color-coded sectors.

4. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein between the respective color-coded sectors there is a common data/information buffer to allow the transfer and exchange of data/information between said color-coded sectors.

5. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein, within the internal portions of the color-coded sectors there is a plurality of microprocessors for operating said device.

6. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein between the at least two color-coded sectors there is one common microprocessor for operating said device.

7. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein within an internal portion of each color-coded sector there are two separate but communicating RAMs.

8. A device as claimed in claim 7, wherein within the internal portion of the color-coded sectors there are at least two partitioned memory RAM cells.

9. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein within each of the color-coded sectors there is only one ROM for storing and operating the program files when actively electrically linked with a compatible host system.

10. A device according to claim 2, wherein there is further comprising a pair of complementing electrically conductive plates or points to allow the exchange of data/information between the linkable color-coded sectors.

11. A flash drive organizer device having easily distinguishable external color-coded sectors of the housing wherein the colored-coded sectors having at least one electrical USB connectors capable of being plugged into a corresponding compatible computer USB interface of a host computer system, are configured to identify which sector is to be activated, so as to enable the user of said device to easily utilize certain definite desired selection or selections of data/information stored within the memory or memories of said device and outputted from said device, as well as inputted into said device through the connected corresponding host computer system and linked compatible monitor wherein said device is electrically connected.

12. A device as claimed in claim 11 having one visible external LED activity light indicator.

13. A device as claimed in claim 11, wherein said device is provided with one or more linked visible external LEDs activity light indicators.

14. A device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the color-coded sectors of said housing are unitary in structure, having only one common housing, one USB interface connector and one swingable cover for the USB interface connector.

15. A device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the internal electronic components within said device have one or several intercommunicating RAMs or writeable or rewriteable flash memory partitioned cells.

16. A device according to claim 11 having at least one or several micro-processors.

17. A device as claimed in claim 11, wherein said external color-coded sectors of said housing being provided with external electrical interface components at each of the respective color-coded sector ends, and, also being provided with labeling areas for the user to use for better convenient organizational labeling of relevant respective contents in any language or symbols to well designate the desired data/information to achieve better organized file recognition during work performance using said multi-purpose flash drive organizer device.

18. A device of claim 11, wherein there is provided at least one color-coded cover or covers for the corresponding external electrical USB interface connectors;

said color-coded cover or covers having available labeling areas for the user of said device to easily use for marking definite needed data/information regarding the relevant respective important contents in said device or corresponding sector.

19. A device as claimed in claim 13 having a plurality of visible external LED activity light indicators of different colors.

20. A device as claimed in claim 13, wherein said plurality of visible external LEDs activity light indicators are not of different colors.

21. A practical multi-purpose flash drive organizer device having external color-coded sectors of the housing adapted to enable a user to determine the contents of a sector, wherein the said color-coded sectors having at least one electrical USB connectors adapted to be plugged into a corresponding compatible computer USB interface of a host computer system, so as to enable the user of said device to display and work on certain definite desired selection or selections of data and information stored within the memory of said device, wherein said external color-coded sectors of said housing are both detachable and attachable with each other, yet having electrical contact points between said separate external sectors of said housing, so as to allow various connectivity and switchable capabilities for greater range of compatible adaptability in establishing electrical connections with various kinds of compatible electronic devices.

22. A method involving the use of a flash drive organizer device that can be optimally plugged into a variety of selected specific compatible host system;

said method using said flash drive organizer having at least one USB interface connector or connectors, having external labels of “

ALL CORRECT” and

“

NOT FINAL”

on its first and second sectored halves, respectively;

said method comprising of steps;

(a) the user of said flash drive organizer electrically connecting said device to a compatible host system and verifying whether or not the respective USB connector of the ALL CORRECT color-coded half-sector is really connected to the host system with the proper USB connector;

(b) double checking to see that the right color-coded half sector of said device is really connected to the host system with the right USB connector of the ALL CORRECT COLOR-CODED HALF SECTOR of said device by checking if the LED-1 light is turned on, then indicating that said device is correctly connected to the respective ALL CORRECT color-coded half sector in use;

(c) modifying and reading the desired contents of the desired chosen data file then saving the modified chosen data file;

(d) deciding whether to convert the chosen modified data file to the NOT FINAL data sector;

(e) if Yes, then deciding whether to copy the modified file in the current folder, and if deciding Yes to copy and save the modified file content into the “

NOT FINAL”

sector then entering the PIN or password, if required, and then the modified file is copied to the Data Buffer, then, unplugging the flash drive organizer device and connecting it to the other side and transferring the file into the “

NOT FINAL”

sector;

(f) if the decision is not to convert the modified data into NOT FINAL, then the modified data still remains in the “

ALL CORRECT”

color-coded sector;

(g) if the decision is not to make a copy of the current file, then, entering the PIN or password, if required, and the file is moved to the Data Buffer, then unplugging the flash drive organizer device and connecting it to the other side and transferring the file through the NOT Final data connector through the host system;

(h) verifying if the device is not connected with the ALL CORRECT connector by visual confirmation that the LED-2 signal activity light is turned on;

(i) selecting a data file;

(j) deciding whether to modify the selected data file;

(k) saving the selected data file;

(l) deciding whether or not to convert the modified data file to the ALL CORRECT;

(m) if the decision is NO, then end;

(n) if the decision is YES, then deciding whether to make a copy of the data file or not;

(o) if the decision is YES, then copying the file into the current folder;

(p) entering the PIN or password if required;

(q) copying the file in the DATA BUFFER;

(r) unplugging the respective flash drive organizer device connector and connecting the other side of USB connector of the corresponding other sector and transferring the file to the ALL CORRECT with the respective USB connector through the compatible linked host system, then ending the process;

(s) if, the decision is NO in making a copy of the data file, then entering the PIN or password, if required;

(t) moving the file to the DATA BUFFER;

(u) unplugging the connected respective USB connector of the flash drive and connecting the other USB connector and transferring the file to the ALL CORRECT sector, and ends.

23. A flash drive organizer device comprising of:

(a) a USB connector of the first half sector of said device capable of connecting to a host computer system (desktop computer, laptop, netbook, TV, etc);

said USB connector being internally electrically linked to the Micro-Controller Unit-1, which handles the communications with the USB interface of a host computer system, wherein said Micro-Controller Unit-1 being also connected to both LED 1 labeled of the first half sector, and LED-2 of the second half sector of said device, and said USB connector as being also internally electrically linked to LED-1 which becomes lit when being used to indicate that said first half sector of said device is activated;

(b) a USB connector of the second half sector of said device being electrically linked with MCU-1 and LED-2, when connected and linked to a USB host system, the respective LED-2 is being lit to indicate that the second half sector of said device is activated and being used;

(c) RAM of said device being connected to MCU-1, and said RAM which is divided into three partitions, Partition-1, Partition-2, and Partition 3, allowing the user to select into which RAM partition each selected file data/information is to be stored for better classification, and, thus enabling the user of said device to retrieve and work on the exact file contents from the relevant selected partition where the selected file is currently located and then access and work on or display the exact desired file contents when needed, after looking for the desired file contents.

24. A programmed flash drive organizer device having a joint uni-body housing with two electrically separate color-coded first and second half sectors, wherein at the respective ends of said first and second half sectors there is a corresponding first USB connector and a second USB connector, capable of being plugged into the USB interface of a host system, and wherein said first color-coded sector contains a Micro-Controller-1 (MCU-1) which controls the communications between the host system and the ROM and the electrically linked LED-1, and wherein said second color-coded half sector contains a Micro-Controller-2 which handles the communications between the host system and said second color-coded half sector that is electrically connected to said second USB connector and a RAM and an LED-2, said device enabling the user to use the ROM with its stored application programs using a separate said first half sector, and also enabling the user to work on the stored editable data and information using the other side of the plugged second color-coded half sector, with verification that the corresponding LED-1 of said first color-coded half sector or the LED-2 of the second color-coded half sector is actively lit thus providing the user with a choice of storage, display, editing, modification and retrieval of all editable data/information organized on said second color-coded half sector and separate from the stored programs in said first color-coded half sector thus providing the user with a choice of storage to keep all editable data/information organized and separate from the stored programs.

25. A method for providing the user of a multi-purpose color-coded flash drive organizer device with recognition of which sector of said device is to be plugged in said method comprising the steps of:

(a) the user plugging the correct USB connector of said flash drive of either with the Program Data sector or the Editable Data sector into a host system;

(b) checking whether or not said device is connected with the Program sector/connector to the host system;

(c) if Yes that said device is connected to the Program Data sector/connector of said device, then,

(d) LED-1 will be turned on to indicate this correct Program sector/connector is in use, and the user may access and work with the read-only data, then ending,

(e) if said device is not connected to the Program Data sector/connector of said device, then said device is connected to the Editable Data sector/connector of said device, then LED-2 will be turned on to indicate this particular Editable sector/connector of said device is in use, and the user may the access, modify, read, or display the files from the corresponding memory of said device, then, saving the modified file or displayed data file, then, the process ends.

26. A programmed multi-purpose color-coded flash drive organizer device, comprising:

(a) a housing with differential color-coded external sectors for aiding the user of said device to rapidly delineate which sector contains the desired selected file and file contents to work on, modify, edit and display, store, exchange or transfer through the selected sector'"'"'s USB connector inter-linked with a host computer system and monitor;

(b) at least one USB connector located at the end of at least one sector adapted for inter-linking with a compatible computer host system;

(c) at least one internal microprocessor located within the housing and the color-coded sector or sectors;

(d) at least one ROM containing the program files adapted for operating the said flash drive organizer;

(e) at least one RAM or partitioned memory cells adapted for storing and extracting selected rewriteable or final data and information or not-final editable data and information;

(f) at least one LED signaling activity lights adapted to indicate whether or not the selected sector is properly linked and activated for proper operations;

(g) at least one covering cap adapted to protect and expose the respective at least one selected USB connector;

(h) at least one labeling area on either/or both the external housing and/or on at least one color-coded sector and/or on the external face of the covering cap for the user to label.

27. A device as in claim 26, further comprising at least one data buffer configured for use as temporary storage and link for transferring data/information between the memory RAMs of partitioned memory cells.