Patents by Inventor Giancarlo Tonino

Giancarlo Tonino 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).

  • Distributed system for issuing official stamps and/or titles applying dedicated smart cards
    Patent number: 7797246
    Abstract: A distributed system (10) for issuing official stamps and/or titles (25), particularly stamps, comprising a central control unit or Service Centre (12), a plurality of local terminals (11) distributed throughout the land for materially issuing the official stamps and/or titles (25), and a plurality of smart cards (21) assigned to the operators of the local terminals (11), in which an initialization programme (40) is provided for initialising, in combination, a given local terminal (11) and a given smart card (21) of the system (10), in order to establish between that given terminal (11) and that given smart card (21) a bi-unequivocal type relationship of correspondence and cooperation, so that the given local terminal (11) and the given smart card (21), once initialised, are enabled within the system (10) to cooperate uniquely between one another to the exclusion of all other terminals and all other smart cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giancarlo Tonino, Pier Domenico Di Benedetto, Giovanni Quaranti
  • Distributed system for issuing official stamps and/or titles comprising a plurality of smart cards
    Publication number: 20060004678
    Abstract: A distributed system (10) for issuing official stamps and/or titles (25), particularly stamps, comprising a central control unit or Service Centre (12), a plurality of local terminals (11) distributed throughout the land for materially issuing the official stamps and/or titles (25), and a plurality of smart cards (21) assigned to the operators of the local terminals (11), in which an initialisation programme (40) is provided for initialising, in combination, a given local terminal (11) and a given smart card (21) of the system (10), in order to establish between that given terminal (11) and that given smart card (21) a bi-unequivocal type relationship of correspondence and cooperation, so that the given local terminal (11) and the given smart card (21), once initialised, are enabled within the system (10) to cooperate uniquely between one another to the exclusion of all other terminals and all other smart cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giancarlo Tonino, Pier Di Benedetto, Giovanni Quaranti