Patents by Inventor Pierre-Alain Etique

Pierre-Alain Etique 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).

  • Patent number: 7444674
    Abstract: For end-to-end securing of transactions between a mobile terminal and an Internet server on the application layer, cryptographic transaction identification records, which are directed by the Internet server application to transaction partner applications in the mobile terminal, are stored, assigned to the mobile terminal, in a proxy server. In each case a record identification is transmitted to the mobile terminal for a stored transaction identification record as well as a proxy record, which is calculated by the proxy server from the respective stored transaction identification record. In each case a record identification and a proxy record are taken by the proxy server from the messages directed by the mobile terminal to the Internet server application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain Etique, Adriano Huber
  • Patent number: 7249111
    Abstract: Method for distribution of value codes configured to be cashed in to obtain credit for services subject to charges. The value codes are generated and stored in a database of a value code issuer. A value code is ordered by a customer through transmission of order data, containing at least one monetary amount value, via an order channel, to the value code issuer. A delivery number, linked in the database with the value code, is transmitted via a delivery channel to the customer, and the receipt of the transmitted delivery number is confirmed by the customer through transmission of at least one part of the delivery number via a confirmation channel to the value code issuer. A value, linked in the database to the monetary amount value, is transmitted via a delivery channel to the customer, and a monetary amount value corresponding to at least the monetary amount value linked to the confirmed value code is charged to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Karin Busch Lauper, Pierre-Alain Etique
  • Patent number: 7016666
    Abstract: Method for verifying in a mobile device (13) the authenticity of electronic partner certificates issued by a certification authority. Said mobile device (13) has an identification module (16) (SIM or WIM). Said issued certificates are verified with the certificate of the certification authority. A reference to said electronic certificate of the certification authority is stored in a second module (14) that is connected with said mobile device (13). Advantages: the second module can be distributed independently from the first module and from the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG
    Inventors: Karin Busch Lauper, Pierre-Alain Etique, Renato Cantini
  • Patent number: 6611955
    Abstract: A method for on-line monitoring and testing the behavior of middleware based, distributed application software during run-time of such software is disclosed. In order to automatize the monitoring of the behavior of the application software, the monitoring method comprises: defining events capturing the behavior of the software execution, the events being based on an abstraction of the application software, the abstraction being provided by middleware; using code generating means and an instrumentation technique for automatically adding code to the implementation of the software code suitable for generating traces suitable to be sent to an observer, the information carried by the added code including information on the order of occurrence of the events and on the application software part location where each event occurs; and using a monitoring mechanism based on sending of trace reports to the observer, which ensures or takes into account the time order of the reported traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignees: Swisscom AG, Alcatel, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Xavier Logean, Falk Dietrich, Jean-Pierre A. Hubaux, Sylvain Grisouard, Pierre-Alain Etique, Shawn E. Koppenhoefer
  • Publication number: 20020098830
    Abstract: Method for verifying in a mobile device (13) the authenticity of electronic partner certificates issued by a certification authority. Said mobile device (13) has an identification module (16) (SIM or WIM). Said issued certificates are verified with the certificate of the certification authority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Karin Busch Lauper, Pierre-Alain Etique, Renato Cantini