Patents by Inventor Joseph Gargiulo

Joseph Gargiulo 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).

  • System and method for disaster recovery in an open metering system
    Patent number: 5793867
    Abstract: System and method for securely backing up and reliably retrieving vault data in a metering system that includes a host processor operatively coupled to a vault. Whenever a transaction is completed by the vault, the vault cryptographically signs the vault data, including ascending register, descending register and piece count and sends the cryptographically signed vault data to the host processor where it is stored in a data file assigned to the vault. Each storage of the cryptographically signed vault data is indexed to create a historical log of vault transactions. If the vault is lost or damaged so that vault data cannot be retrieved from the vault, the cryptographically signed vault data is retrieved from the host processor data file and verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Cordery, David K. Lee, Leon A. Pintsov, Frederick W. Ryan, Jr., Walter J. Baker, Joseph Gargiulo, Richard W. Heiden