Patents by Inventor Gianluca Rizzo

Gianluca Rizzo 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).

  • Method and an apparatus for preventing traffic interruptions between client ports exchanging information through a communication network
    Patent number: 8000600
    Abstract: A method for preventing a temporary traffic interruption between two client ports and the consequent state transition of the receiving port in a communication network providing for the transmission of a data stream between two clients along at least one path when a fault condition is detected in the path. The method includes the steps of monitoring the data stream directed to the receiver and, upon detecting in the data stream an error sequence capable of starting the state transition, replacing the data stream with a filling data stream to prevent the receiver from detecting an error condition, and resuming the forwarding of the received data stream after a predetermined time interval. An apparatus able to mask to the receiver for the predetermined time interval, a storage area network and a computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Raffaele Girardi, Benedetto Riposati, Gianluca Rizzo
  • Method and an apparatus for preventing traffic interruptions between client ports exchanging information through a communication network
    Publication number: 20090190466
    Abstract: A method for preventing a temporary traffic interruption between two client ports and the consequent state transition of the receiving port in a communication network providing for the transmission of a data stream between two clients along at least one path when a fault condition is detected in the path. The method includes the steps of monitoring the data stream directed to the receiver and, upon detecting in the data stream an error sequence capable of starting the state transition, replacing the data stream with a filling data stream to prevent the receiver from detecting an error condition, and resuming the forwarding of the received data stream after a predetermined time interval. An apparatus able to mask to the receiver for the predetermined time interval, a storage area network and a computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Raffaele Girardi, Benedetto Riposati, Gianluca Rizzo