Inventor · Ossining, NY, US

Barry E. Willner

174Patents
36h-index
56Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 6, 1994 → Dec 12, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7103906B1 User controlled multi-device media-on-demand system Electricity 429 Expired
US5916302A Multimedia conferencing using parallel networks Electricity 380 Expired
US6091709A Quality of service management for packet switched networks Electricity 277 Expired
US5724646A Fixed video-on-demand Electricity 230 Expired
US5515511A Hybrid digital/analog multimedia hub with dynamically allocated/released channels for video processing and distribution Electricity 219 Expired
US7200566B1 Method and system for local wireless commerce Physics 214 Expired
US5682597A Hybrid video-on-demand based on a near-video-on-demand system Electricity 213 Expired
US5917817A User invocation of services in public switched telephone network via parallel data networks Electricity 211 Expired
US6167055A Apparatus for provision of broadband signals over installed telephone wiring Electricity 205 Expired
US7016899B1 Camera device, methods and program products for location and environmental stamping of images, communications and other applications Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 149 Expired
US5999612A Integrated telephony and data services over cable networks Electricity 149 Expired
US6591103B1 Wireless telecommunications system and method of operation providing users′ carrier selection in overlapping hetergenous networks Electricity 143 Expired
US6701271B2 Method and apparatus for using physical characteristic data collected from two or more subjects Physics 135 Expired
US6879835B2 Location-specific messaging system Electricity 133 Expired
US6985933B1 Method and system for increasing ease-of-use and bandwidth utilization in wireless devices Electricity 132 Expired
US7062437B2 Audio renderings for expressing non-audio nuances Physics 111 Expired
US6118780A Communication network and method of operation for real time user selection of voice and/or data paths in the network Electricity 111 Expired
US5991385A Enhanced audio teleconferencing with sound field effect Electricity 105 Expired
US6064666A Cross service common user image association Electricity 102 Expired
US5878047A Apparatus for provision of broadband signals over installed telephone wiring Electricity 94 Expired
US6560648B1 Method and apparatus for network latency performance measurement Electricity 91 Expired
US6163683A Broadcast data radio system and receiver apparatus therefor Electricity 88 Expired
US6078807A Telephony fraud detection using voice recognition techniques Electricity 88 Expired
US6529209B1 Method for providing privately viewable data in a publically viewable display Electricity 85 Expired
US6163510A Multimedia search and indexing system and method of operation using audio cues with signal thresholds Physics 79 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.