System for detachably connecting memory cards which provide memory specified by predetermined range of addresses registered in list and updating list independent of the I/O operation

Patent 6182159 Issued on January 30, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date:

July 20, 2019. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Urabe, Akio

Assignee

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Application

No. 357499 filed on 07/20/1999

US Classes:

710/2, Input/Output expansion710/3, Input/Output addressing710/302, Hot insertion711/5, For multiple memory modules (e.g., banks, interleaved memory)711/115, Detachable memory711/163, Access limiting711/218Sequential addresses generation

Examiners

Primary: Lee, Thomas C.
Assistant: Perveen, Rehana

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Knoble & Yoshida, LLC

Foreign Patent References

59-92482 JP. 05/12/1984
2-110098 JP. 09/12/1990

International Classes

G06F 013/10
G06F 013/16

Foreign Application Priority Data

1995-09-19 JP

Abstract

The disclosure of the current invention describes the methods and systems for inputting and outputting to and from the large capacity memory cards which are used as external data storage and expanded random access memory.