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Credit card sized USB flash drive
   
Document Number
US Patent 7344072
Issued Date
March 18, 2008
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A flash memory mass storage drive stores user files in a convenient credit card sized drive. Embodiments function as both a credit card and a mass storage drive. Communication may be through a host interface connector such as a USB connector, a magnetic interface, a smart card interface, and/or a near field communication interface. In certain embodiments the drive comprises a portion that is sufficiently thin to be swiped through a standard credit card, ATM, or point of sale device. The USB connector of the drive can easily be plugged into even a crowded receptacle of a host computing device.
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SanDisk Corporation (Milpitas, CA)
Published
March 18, 2008
Application Number
11/536,886
Filed
September 29, 2006
US Classification
235/441   235/380 235/492
Int'l Classification
G06K   7/06   (20060101)  
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is related to and claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/745,813 to Gonzalez et al., filed Apr. 27, 2006. All patents, patent applications, articles, books, specifications, other publications, documents and things referenced herein are hereby incorporated herein by this reference in their entirety for all purposes. To the extent of any inconsistency or conflict in the definition or use of a term between any of the incorporated publications, documents or things and the text of the present document, the definition or use of the term in the present document shall prevail.
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235/492   235/380   235/441   235/451  
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