Patent ID: 8914477
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for mounting a physical internal memory of a wireless device as a private shared network drive on a virtual private network (VPN) to make the physical internal memory of the wireless device available as a private shared network drive on the VPN, the method comprising: presenting the physical internal memory of the wireless device as a universal serial bus (USB) mass storage device using a USB mass storage component of the wireless device configured to interface with the physical internal memory; establishing a private secure connection between the wireless device and a server of the network on the VPN; establishing a connection between a universal serial bus (USB) mass storage component of the wireless device and a physical internal memory of the wireless device; initiating a private file share between the wireless device and the server over the private secure connection using a file share component of the wireless device configured to mount mass storage devices as network drives on the VPN; and bridging the USB mass storage component of the wireless device and the file share component of the wireless device, to mount the physical internal memory as a private shared network drive on the VPN, by translating file system requests from the VPN to USB device requests, thereby making the physical internal memory of the wireless device available as a private shared network drive on the VPN; wherein the physical internal memory of the wireless device includes at least one of: physical internal random access memory (RAM); physical internal read-only memory (ROM); physical internal flash memory; a physical internal memory module connected to the wireless device; and a physical internal memory module connected to the wireless device; wherein the VPN includes at least one of a local area network and a wide area network, and communication between the wireless device and the server occurs wirelessly over one or more of the wide area network and the local area network.