Patents by Inventor Secondo Gallo

Secondo Gallo 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 upgrading the software of a telecommunication terminal, in particular of a video telephone, and related computer program product
    Patent number: 9201641
    Abstract: A method of upgrading the software of a terminal of a telecommunication network, in particular a wired video telephone, includes the steps of periodically sending a first signal from the terminal to a service center via an intelligent network, the first signal including a service access code containing information related to the current software version installed on the terminal; checking, in a data base containing information on the different software versions available in the service center, if the current software version corresponds to a correct software version; sending from the service center to the terminal a second signal, in the form of a DTMF sequence, indicative of the result of the step of checking; possibly displaying a message on the terminal to inform the user that the software has to be upgraded; and remotely downloading the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Secondo Gallo, Andrea Bergaglio, Margherita Miali
  • Method and System For Upgrading the Software of a Telecommunication Terminal, In Particular of a Video Telephone, and Related Computer Program Product
    Publication number: 20080134166
    Abstract: A method of upgrading the software of a terminal of a telecommunication network, in particular a wired video telephone, includes the steps of periodically sending a first signal from the terminal to a service center via an intelligent network, the first signal including a service access code containing information related to the current software version installed on the terminal; checking, in a data base containing information on the different software versions available in the service center, if the current software version corresponds to a correct software version; sending from the service center to the terminal a second signal, in the form of a DTMF sequence, indicative of the result of the step of checking; possibly displaying a message on the terminal to inform the user that the software has to be upgraded; and remotely downloading the software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2004
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A
    Inventors: Secondo Gallo, Andrea Bergaglio, Margherita Miali
  • Method of and means for synchronizing a receiving section of a digital telecommunication system
    Patent number: 4472799
    Abstract: A terminal of a digital telecommunication system working in a so-called "ping-pong" mode, with alternate reception and transmission of data words in respective halves of a recurrent operating cycle, has a phase-lock circuit whose oscillator is stabilized by a control signal periodically extracted from an incoming bit stream during the data-receiving phases. The receiving section of the terminal has a branch obtaining incoming bipolar data words from an input/output transformer and converting them, with the aid of a peak detector and an integrator or a monoflop, into respective timing pulses whose leading edges recur with the same periodicity as the data words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Cselt-Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Fossati, Secondo Gallo, Renzo Ravaglia, Vincenzo Lazzari