Patents Assigned to CenterBeam, Inc.
  • System and Method for Serving and Managing Independent Access Devices
    Publication number: 20120096133
    Abstract: A third party service provider can provide data, management, and configuration services to a plurality of unrelated entities. The services are separated from the management and configuration aspect, and a system of trust is arranged to avoid the unrelated parties affecting one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: CENTERBEAM, INC.
    Inventors: Marc Epstein, Mark Collins, Peter Barclay, Brian Karney, Glenn Ricart
  • Architecture for serving and managing independent access devices
    Patent number: 8095624
    Abstract: A method of providing services from a service provider to a plurality of independent entities, includes defining a predetermined one way trust relationship, separating first services wherein the relationship runs from the service provider to the serviced entity from second services wherein the relationship runs from the serviced entity to the service provider, thus preventing transitive trust. Preferably, the second services do not trust the first services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: CenterBeam Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Epstein, Mark Collins, Peter Barclay, Brian Karney, Glenn Ricart
  • Method and apparatus for creating a backup of data of from multiple sources
    Patent number: 7356734
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for data backup is disclosed in which prior to actually performing a backup operation from a subscriber computer, the backup server device checks a specified server to determine if parts of the subscriber data to be backed up can be backed up or replicated from data on the specified server. If it can, the backup server uses that specified server to create a backup of the subscriber data to be backed up. If it cannot, then the data is backed up from the subscriber computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: CenterBeam, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Ricart, Marc Epstein, Sheldon Laube
  • Migration of computer personalization information
    Patent number: 6795835
    Abstract: A migration tool and methods for migrating computer personalization information from one computer to another when a network is not available, when a network is available but use of the network is undesirable for some reason, and/or when the computer which is the source of the data being migrated has limited or unknown resources to support conventional forms of data migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Centerbeam, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Ricart, Sheldon Laube, Arno A. Penzias, Marc Epstein