Abstract:
A residential gateway (110) has a memory space (132), comprising at least one private memory space (130), made available to at least one device (111; 112) connected to a local area network (120). The residential gateway comprises: a table (140) managing rights of access to said private memory space or spaces; means for receiving commands for access to said memory space and administrator commands for updating said access rights management table; means for updating said table, on receipt of an administrator command coming from a predetermined device implementing an administrator module, and for ignoring any administrator command coming from another device; and means (150) for ignoring any command for access to said private memory space or spaces, when said command is received coming from a device not identified in said table.