Patents by Inventor Mario Andrea Franco

Mario Andrea Franco 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).

  • Memory support for a program for controlling a method for securely conducting commercial and banking transactions in a telecommunications and computer network, and the method itself
    Publication number: 20020087466
    Abstract: A memory support for a program for controlling a method for securely conducting commercial and banking transactions in a telecommunications and computer network with electronic commerce sites and credit institutions, portable, of the laser-read type, functioning as a payment card to be inserted in a related reader on a users computer, containing a stored software that includes: a user data certificate in digital format able to allow banking operations, once it is duly activated by means of a secret code of a user holding said memory support as holder of an account with a credit institution, and a program able to communicate with other programs residing in computers or servers at said electronic commerce sites and credit institutions interested in said commercial and banking operations through any computer provided with common programs for connecting to the telecommunications and computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: GM&P s.r.l.
    Inventors: Andrea Fais, Mario Andrea Franco, Giuseppe Mele, Carlo Mulas