Patents by Inventor Kevin Epstein

Kevin Epstein 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).

  • Publication number: 20160253633
    Abstract: A method of generating home repair estimate reports from subjective home or other building inspection reports may be provided. Such a method may allow preliminary high-level estimation of building repair costs, and may require uploading the inspection report and building and location data, generating a calibration model and location indexing information, extrapolating the sectional deficiencies identified in the inspection report, mapping the deficiencies to the building model, and applying the indexing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin EPSTEIN, Alan SCHULMAN
  • Patent number: 8516480
    Abstract: Virtualization snapshots are utilized for efficiently synchronizing virtual machines present on a client system and a server system. A snapshot of a virtual machine (VM) is taken by the client system before making modifications to the VM. The modifications to the VM are stored by the virtualization snapshot separate from the VM itself. The modified portions of the VM are communicated by the client system to the server system. The server system applies the modifications to a locally stored VM that corresponds to the original VM on the client system. The modified VM on the server system matches the modified VM on the client. As a result synchronization between the VMs on client system and the server system is obtained without transferring the entire VM multiple times. The server system performs format conversions between a format of the client system and the server system on the VM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignees: CloudShare, Inc., CloudShare Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Epstein, Uri Gilad, Ophir Kra-OZ, Avner Rosenan
  • Publication number: 20070203886
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for accelerating and improving access to network files is provided. One technique for providing data quickly and efficiently is to send a thumbnail of a file to a user rather than sending the entire file. Another technique for providing data quickly and efficiently is to generate the difference between a current version of data and a non-current version of data, to transmit this difference to the requesting user, and to use the difference to update the non-current version of data the user currently has access to. A third technique that can be used in combination with the first two techniques is to compress data, such as the thumbnail or file difference, before transmitting this data. A fourth technique that can be used in combination with the third technique is to securely transmit the compressed data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Kevin Epstein, Bradley Fowlow, Michael Chowla, Marco Zagha