Patents by Inventor Anthony F. Violante

Anthony F. Violante 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).

  • Cellular telephone manifest system
    Patent number: 6035043
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cellular telecommunications systems that records in the cellular telephone all the telephone calls made by that particular cellular telephone. This enables the owner or agent of the cellular telephone to compare the telephone calls made by his cellular telephone with the telephone calls that were charged to his assigned number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald P Sansone, Anthony F Violante
  • Auditable security system for the generation of cryptographically protected digital data
    Patent number: 5949879
    Abstract: A secure system for Authentication information. The system includes a scanner for reading the information contained in a document, a timing mechanism for entering the time the document was read, an encryptor for encrypting the read and timed information and a counter for counting the number of documents processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: William Berson, Elizabeth Bernobich, Richard W. Heiden, Richard A. Potoczek, Robert W. Sisson, Anthony F. Violante
  • Metered payment cellular telephone communication system
    Patent number: 5812945
    Abstract: This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a cellular telephone metering systems that allows phone calls to be made as long as sufficient funds or call units reside in the phone. The apparatus of this invention also utilize encryption and employ seed numbers for the addition of funds or call units to the cellular phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Gary G. Hansen, David W. Riley, David K. Lee, Frederick W. Ryan, Jr., Nathan Rosenberg, Anthony F. Violante, Ronald P. Sansone
  • Authorized cellular voice messaging and/or analog or digital data communication access and verification control system
    Patent number: 5768383
    Abstract: This invention relates to cellular voice messaging and/or analog or digital data messaging systems that utilize encryption and employ encrypted seed number signals to make it more difficult to make unauthorized use of cellular voice messaging and/or analog or digital data messaging systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald P. Sansone, Anthony F. Violante
  • Authorized cellular telephone communication access and verification control system
    Patent number: 5765106
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cellular telecommunications systems that utilizes encryption and employs encrypted seed number signals to make it more difficult to make unauthorized cellular telephone calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony F. Violante, Ronald P. Sansone
  • Authorized cellular telephone communication payment refill system
    Patent number: 5740247
    Abstract: This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing cellular telecommunications systems that utilize encryption and employ encrypted seed number signals to enable various payment plans for access and payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony F. Violante, Ronald P. Sansone