ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,330, issued on April 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Access-controlled delivery of content to network attached storage" was invented by Dean M. Jenkins (La Canada-Flintridge, Calif.) and Robert P. Ryan (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network attached storage device coupled to a local network and including a network interface configured to receive digital content from a remote content provider outside the local network. The network attached storage device includes storage having a first region accessible by a user of the local network and a secure region. The network attached s...