2007-03-14 12:01:08 · 5 answers · asked by Madam_Mimm_1961 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Trek was the first company to sell a USB Flash Drive (ThumbDrive) in early 2000.
However, the ownership of the patent for this device has been widely disputed. According to The Straits Times's report, other companies started marketing similar devices. M-Systems, which is listed on Nasdaq, called its gadgets DiskOnKey and Diskey. Electec is M-Systems' importer, and FE Global is its sole distributor in Singapore. Lexar can also lay claim to a pioneering USB flash drive product. In 2000 they introduced a Compact Flash (CF) card having an internal USB function. Lexar offered a companion card reader and USB cable that eliminated the need for a USB hub.
Trek sued the four companies for infringing its patent. They counterclaimed, asking that Trek's patent be revoked as it was invalid.
2007-03-14 12:04:52 · answer #1 · answered by sexylittlemisstweetybird83 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Several companies claim to be the first to have invented the USB Flash Drive in 1998 through 2000. Different companies claim to have been the first to have thought about it, to have written down a description, built, patented, or to have actually sold the first USB Flash drives.
Trek was the first company to sell a USB Flash Drive (ThumbDrive) in early 2000. However, their patent does not really describe the USB Flash Drive, but a very broad family of storage devices, of which the USB Flash Drive is one.
2007-03-14 12:03:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to http://www.wikipedia.com then put in USB and a page will open which will give you the information you are seaking.
If you have IE7 & have Wikipedia as an installed search engine, just click on the little down arrow, select Wikipedia from the list, then put USB in the search box and click the search icon.
If you have IE7, but do not currently have Wikipedia as a search engine choice, click on the little down arrow, then select, "Find more providers" and you will be taken to a page where you can add Wikipedia as a search engine provider. You can then follow the steps outlined above and find all the outstanding articles Wikipedia contains. It is the best information provider on the net today, by far.
Good luck and have a great day!
p.s. Wikipedia is the online encyclodedia
2007-03-14 12:07:25 · answer #3 · answered by Serenity 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think Trek sold the first ones. The technology is pretty much generic memory hardware packaged differently, and it is a fairly progressive technology so on some level credit goes to lots of people, and initially, perhaps Konrad Zuse.
2007-03-14 12:05:21 · answer #4 · answered by Jimee77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im sure you know how to use google or yahoo.
2007-03-14 12:03:06 · answer #5 · answered by fleetofworlds 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋