Patent ID: 8375103

Claim:
A system for file access and sharing, comprising: a storage device storing a file, the file having a file name; a home gateway having a routing identification code and connected to the storage device; and a server connected to the home gateway via the Internet so as for the home gateway to upload the routing identification code and the file name to the server, the server storing a user's registration information, the registration information corresponding to the routing identification code, wherein when a terminal device passes verification of the server by using the registration information and thus logs in the server, the server transmits the routing identification code and the file name to the terminal device, and when the terminal device sends to the server a request instruction containing the routing identification code and the file name, the server, according to the routing identification code and the file name in the request instruction, retrieves the file corresponding to the file name from the storage device by way of the home gateway and sends the file to the terminal device.