Google Assigned Patent

Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,468,007) developed by Jean Baptiste Maurice Queru, Foster City, CA, and Christopher L. Tate, Berkeley, CA, for a "emulating a peripheral mass storage device with a portable device."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for emulating a mass storage device and a file system of a mass storage device. In a first aspect, a human-portable data processing device that includes one or more data processors that perform operations in accordance with machine-readable instructions, an incoming message classifier configured to classify an incoming read command according to an address of the data requested by the incoming read command, and an emulation data generation component connected to respond to the classification of the incoming read command by the incoming message classifier to generate emulation data emulating that which would have been read by the incoming read command were the human-portable data processing device a mass storage device; and a bus controller configured to respond to the incoming read command with the emulation data generated by the emulation data generation component."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 12, 2011 (13/208,596).