Patents by Inventor Giuseppe Piersantelli

Giuseppe Piersantelli 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: 20100280897
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method of providing a content-on-demand service to a user by a communication network. The method includes transmitting content to a first terminal of the user and determining whether the user wishes to pay for the content at a reduced price. In the affirmative, the method further includes: generating an acknowledge request message and an expected acknowledge message; generating an advertising block including k commercials and the acknowledge request message in such a way that the user is able to answer the acknowledge request message after consuming the k commercials; transmitting the advertising block to a second terminal of the user; listening for an acknowledge message from the second terminal; and determining whether the received acknowledge message corresponds to the expected acknowledge message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gabriele Elia, Stefania Lisa, Giuseppe Piersantelli