Patent ID: 8275961

Claim:
A flash device for secure delivery of digital media comprising: a controller module comprising: at least one central processing unit; at least one register having factory initialized data written therein; wherein the factory initialized data comprises: a vendor identification (VID) string; a product identification (PID) string; a manufacturer identification string; at least one memory module interface; and a memory module comprising: at least one read-only partition having digital data disposed therein; wherein at least a portion of the digital data comprises at least one machine executable instruction set; and at least one register to receive an external device identifier (EDID) from an external device communicatively coupled to the flash device wherein the digital data disposed within the memory module further comprises an automatically-executable instruction set; wherein the automatically-executable instruction set adapted to prevent the execution of at least a portion of the at least one machine executable instruction set except upon the supply of a data string matching a predetermined data string.