SECURED FILE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A media distribution system provides controlled distribution of media owned by various parties hosted on a local media access device. A dynamic multiple assignable partition provides management features to govern access and usage of storage devices such as hard drives, flash drives, logical drives and other repositories that store and manage digital content. The storage devices can be assigned to a single user, or to a group of users, and can be configured to provide specific permissions to each user or group, governing their access and other permissions.

主权项

1. A media access device comprising:
one or more storage devices having a plurality of storage partitions, wherein the plurality of storage partitions are defined by configuration parameters; one or more databases storing a plurality of user groups, each of the plurality of user groups comprising one or more user accounts and associated with a distinct one of the plurality of storage partitions; one or more communication devices that receive a plurality of files from users; and one or more processors that, for each file in the plurality of files:
identify the user that transmitted the one or more files;identify a user group in the plurality of user groups to which the identified user belongs; andstore the file in the distinct one of the plurality of storage partitions associated with the identified user group; wherein at least two of the plurality of files are received from users in different user groups.