Patents by Inventor Dana Bruce Berenson

Dana Bruce Berenson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7032011
    Abstract: A network based solution is described associated with the extraction, transfer, storage, and processing of application settings, files and other data from a subscriber's source computer-based device to a server system, and the subsequent transfer of the application settings, files, and other data from the server system onto a target computer-based device. A server downloads a software module onto the user's computer-based device. A series of pre-stored instructions commensurate with selected settings, files and data are sent from a remote server to the software module to uncover, extract, collect, and return to allocated storage space of the server the sought information. Once the application settings, files and other data are stored within the remote server system, they can be retrieved by the subscriber for purposes of restoring a crashed system, transference to a repaired or new system, converted for use on a new differing device or updated to reflect changes in software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Shay Woodard, Gerard D. Lynch, Dana Bruce Berenson
  • Patent number: 6963908
    Abstract: A method and system for transferring information from a first computer-based device to a web site, for temporary storage and later transfer of the stored information from the web site to a second computer-based device. First, a communication link is established between a first computer-based device and the web site. Next, the first computer-based device is scanned, via the web site, to determine the information contained on the first computer-based device. The user then selects which of the scanned information is to be uploaded from the first computer-based device onto the web site for temporary storage. Finally, the selected information is transferred from the first computer-based device onto the web site for temporary storage. Once retrieval of the temporarily stored information is desired, the user establishes a communication link between a second computer-based device and the web site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard D. Lynch, Dana Bruce Berenson, Andrew Shay Woodard
  • Publication number: 20020111972
    Abstract: A first group of application settings, files and other data, of a first specific format, is converted and transferred to a second related format with respect to a receiving computer-based device, so that the receiving computer-based device will have a substantially similar operating environment to that associated with the first group. First, a communication link is established between a first computer-based device and the web site. Next, the first computer-based device is scanned, via the web site, to determine the information contained on the first computer-based device. The user then selects which of the scanned information is to be uploaded from the first computer-based device onto the web site for temporary storage. Finally, the selected information is transferred from the first computer-based device onto the web site for temporary storage. Once retrieval of the temporarily stored information is desired, the user establishes a communication link between a second computer-based device and the web site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Applicant: Virtual access networks. INC.
    Inventors: Gerard D. Lynch, Chappell Floyd, Dana Bruce Berenson, Andrew Shay Woodard, Richard Joel Castello, Marcus Vinicius A. Goncalves
  • Publication number: 20020104080
    Abstract: A network based solution is described associated with the extraction, transfer, storage, and processing of application settings, files and other data from a subscriber's source computer-based device to a server system, and the subsequent transfer of the application settings, files, and other data from the server system onto a target computer-based device. A server downloads a software module onto the user's computer-based device. A series of pre-stored instructions commensurate with selected settings, files and data are sent from a remote server to the software module to uncover, extract, collect, and return to allocated storage space of the server the sought information. Once the application settings, files and other data are stored within the remote server system, they can be retrieved by the subscriber for purposes of restoring a crashed system, transference to a repaired or new system, converted for use on a new differing device or updated to reflect changes in software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: VIRTUAL ACCESS NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Shay Woodard, Gerard D. Lynch, Dana Bruce Berenson