Patents by Inventor Pere Valls Fontanals

Pere Valls Fontanals 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 system for protection of user information registrations applicable in electoral processes
    Patent number: 8316454
    Abstract: The present invention describes a method and system for protecting the integrity and authorship of a piece of registration information of the user, applicable in voter information registration, by means of biometric techniques. To that end, after a first stage of entering a piece of registration information, a second stage of protecting the integrity of the registration information is implemented. In this second stage, an item of integrity proof of said information is generated and said item of integrity proof is displayed to the user who wishes to protect it. In a third stage of generating an item of non-repudiation proof of the registration information, an item of biometric proof of the user which contains the item of integrity proof displayed is obtained, an item of non-repudiation proof is constructed from said item of biometric proof, and finally the item of non-repudiation proof is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: SCYTL Secure Electronic Voting S.A.
    Inventors: Pere Valls Fontanals, Jordi Puiggalí Allepuz, Victor Manuel Morales Rocha
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROTECTION OFUSER INFORMATION REGISTRATIONS APPLICABLE IN ELECTORAL PROCESSES
    Publication number: 20110131661
    Abstract: The present invention describes a method and system for protecting the integrity and authorship of a piece of registration information of the user, applicable in voter information registration, by means of biometric techniques. To that end, after a first stage of entering a piece of registration information, a second stage of protecting the integrity of the registration information is implemented. In this second stage, an item of integrity proof of said information is generated and said item of integrity proof is displayed to the user who wishes to protect it. In a third stage of generating an item of non-repudiation proof of the registration information, an item of biometric proof of the user which contains the item of integrity proof displayed is obtained, an item of non-repudiation proof is constructed from said item of biometric proof, and finally the item of non-repudiation proof is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: SCYTL SECURE ELECTRONIC VOTING S.A.
    Inventors: Pere Valls Fontanals, Jordi Puiggal´ Allepuz, Victor Manuel Morales Rocha