Patent ID: 8806073

Claim:
A digital media storage device comprising: a host device interface adapted for exchanging digital information with a host; a memory, at least a first portion of which for storing the digital information received from the host via the host device interface; a wireless communications interface; and a controller communicatively coupled to the host device interface, the memory and the wireless communications interface and configured to interpret directory information associated with the digital information stored in the memory so as to selectively access said digital information, wherein said memory stores, in a second portion of the memory not used for storing the digital information and not accessible to the host, (i) a wireless network configuration utility for the wireless communication interface, said configuration utility including controller-executable instructions for causing said controller to store configuration information for the wireless communication interface to associate with a wireless network, and (ii) controller-executable instructions to cause the controller to proxy all accesses from the host device interface to storage locations of the memory at which the digital information is to be stored before resolving said accesses to said storage locations of the memory.