Title: Hot unpluggable media storage device
Patent application publication number: 20070028009
Publication date: February 1, 2007
Filing date: October 4, 2006 (priority to July 23, 2002)
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AIPW Summary: An existing problem with removable media storage devices is that the device could be unplugged from the host computer while a data transfer is occurring, leading to data loss and/or data corruption on the storage device. According to this invention, the storage device is “prepared” to be removable at any time, without the possibility of data loss or corruption. The device is mounted to the host computer during a synchronization process and is unmounted once synchronization is complete (paragraph 0032). A media database in both the host computer and the storage device is used to perform the synchronization.