Patents by Inventor Eve Suzanne Berman

Eve Suzanne Berman 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).

  • Mutual authentication with secure transport and client authentication
    Publication number: 20030221126
    Abstract: Methods for mutual authentication between a client and a server, including providing to the client an object reference comprising a component identifying the server's client authentication protocol, establishing an SSL connection between the client and the server, including authenticating the server with the server's public key, and authenticating the client using the client authentication protocol identified in the component in the object reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eve Suzanne Berman, David Yu Chang, Derek Wan Hok Ho, Stephen Patrick Lyons
  • Heterogeneous filing system with common API and reconciled file management rules
    Patent number: 5668958
    Abstract: A computer system manages first and second different file systems. The system comprises first and second, different file managers having first and second different APIs for the first and second file systems, respectively. The system also comprises a hybrid file manager for managing the second file system based on requests made using the first API. The hybrid manager applies rules from both APIs to control atomicity of requests, access concurrency, and data consistency rules. The hybrid rules prevent violation of the rules of either API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Joseph Bendert, Robert Bradley Bennett, Eve Suzanne Berman, Susan Marie Farrell, Eugene Johnson, Robert Michael Nugent, Mary Ellen Vendryes