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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2007
Amir Ansari, Plano, TX (US);
George A. Cowgill, Farmersville, TX (US);
Leon E. Nicholls, Plano, TX (US);
Atousa Raissyan, Potomac, MD (US);
Jude P. Ramayya, Wylie, TX (US);
Ramprakash Masina, Wylie, TX (US);
Alvin R. Mcquarters, Euless, TX (US);
Amir Ansari, Plano, TX (US);
George A. Cowgill, Farmersville, TX (US);
Leon E. Nicholls, Plano, TX (US);
Atousa Raissyan, Potomac, MD (US);
Jude P. Ramayya, Wylie, TX (US);
Ramprakash Masina, Wylie, TX (US);
Alvin R. McQuarters, Euless, TX (US);
Prodea Systems, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
The disclosed examples of a system for providing and managing backup and restore services of one or more endpoint devices include at least one gateway device at a user premises and a service management center. The gateway device has a first interface for enabling bi-directional communications with one or more of the endpoint devices associated with the gateway device, a second interface for enabling bi-directional communications for the one or more endpoint devices via a wide area network, and for enabling at least some bidirectional communications with at least one storage area external to the user premises via the wide area network. The gateway device also has a processor configured to manage backups and restores of data between the one or more of the endpoint devices and the at least one storage area. The service management center is external to the user premises and communicates with the gateway device via the wide area network, and controls access by the gateway device to the at least one storage area.