Patents by Inventor Romano Fantacci

Romano Fantacci 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).

  • Short authentication procedure in wireless data communications networks
    Patent number: 8621201
    Abstract: In a wireless communications network including at least one authenticator and at least one authentication server, wherein the authenticator is adapted to interact with the authentication server for authenticating supplicants in order to conditionally grant thereto access to the wireless communications network, a short authentication method for authenticating a supplicant, the method including: providing a shared secret, shared by and available at the supplicant and the authentication server; having the supplicant provide to the authenticator an authentication token, wherein the authentication token is based on the shared secret available thereat; having the authenticator forward the authentication token to the authentication server; having the authentication server ascertain an authenticity of the received authentication token based on the shared secret available thereat; in case the authenticity of the authentication token is ascertained, having the authentication server generate a first authentication key b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Luciana Costa, Giorgio Freguglia, Federico Frosali, Romano Fantacci, Leonardo Maccari, Tommaso Pecorella
  • Short Authentication Procedure In Wireless Data Communications Networks
    Publication number: 20090217033
    Abstract: In a wireless communications network including at least one authenticator and at least one authentication server, wherein the authenticator is adapted to interact with the authentication server for authenticating supplicants in order to conditionally grant thereto access to the wireless communications network, a short authentication method for authenticating a supplicant, the method including: providing a shared secret, shared by and available at the supplicant and the authentication server; having the supplicant provide to the authenticator an authentication token, wherein the authentication token is based on the shared secret available thereat; having the authenticator forward the authentication token to the authentication server; having the authentication server ascertain an authenticity of the received authentication token based on the shared secret available thereat; in case the authenticity of the authentication token is ascertained, having the authentication server generate a first authentication key b
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Luciana Costa, Giorgio Freguglia, Federico Frosali, Romano Fantacci, Leonardo Maccari, Tommaso Pecorella