Patent ID: 9467449
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for protection of data shared between network devices, wherein the method is implemented by an interconnecting device interconnecting the network devices, the interconnecting device being a central point for data sharing between the network devices, the interconnecting device making visible data stored by the network devices as directories of a file system of the interconnecting device that are accessible to the network devices, the method comprising: determining a set of network devices that a program to be executed by the interconnecting device is authorized to share data with; launching a contained execution environment for execution of the program by the interconnecting device; making visible at least one of the directories of the file system of the interconnecting device in the contained execution environment, each of the at least one of the directories of the file system in the interconnecting device pointing to a data storage directory of one of the network devices, the at least one of the directories being chosen as a function of the set of network devices; and executing the program in the contained execution environment by the interconnecting device.