Inventor · Wonfurt, DE

Karl Hellwig

45Patents
12h-index
56Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 20, 1984 → Jul 24, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5490136A Method of controlling transmission on a same radio channel of variable-rate information streams in radio communication systems Electricity 116 Expired
US6345251B1 Low-rate speech coder for non-speech data transmission Physics 81 Expired
US8634838B2 Connection set-up between two terminals Electricity 70 Active
US6856612B1 Methods and systems for call routing and codec negotiation in hybrid voice/data/internet/wireless systems Electricity 55 Expired
US6611804B1 Universal TTY/TDD devices for robust text and data transmission via PSTN and cellular phone networks Physics 49 Expired
US6295302A Alternating speech and data transmission in digital communications systems Electricity 49 Expired
US5982766A Power control method and system in a TDMA radio communication system Electricity 34 Expired
US6658381B1 Methods and systems for robust frame type detection in systems employing variable bit rates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US7500018B2 Efficient in-band signaling for discontinuous transmission and configuration changes in adaptive multi-rate communications systems Electricity 19 Active
US5687184A Method and circuit arrangement for speech signal transmission Electricity 19 Expired
US4889756A Sheet-like, multilayer, laser-optical recording material Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US6163577A Source/channel encoding mode control method and apparatus Electricity 13 Expired
US5799201A Signal processor Electricity 11 Expired
US6826404B2 Tone signalling with TFO communication links Electricity 10 Expired
US8374587B2 Method for codec negotiation and selection Electricity 8 Active
US5602766A Method of and device for forming the sum of a chain of products Physics 6 Expired
US4607362A Method of and circuit arrangement for establishing conference connections in a switching system Electricity 6 Expired
US5657421A Speech signal transmitter wherein coding is maintained during speech pauses despite substantial shut down of the transmitter Physics 5 Expired
US8595018B2 Technique for controlling codec selection along a complex call path Electricity 5 Active
US9204276B2 Relaying a private emergency point to a public emergency point Electricity 4 Active
US7620052B2 Method and node for selecting a codec type or configuration by extending the list comprising codecs for transcoder/tandem free operation by further codecs supported by the node Electricity 4 Expired
US6466789B1 Method and device for avoiding interruptions in voice transmissions Electricity 4 Expired
US7328038B2 Power control in mobile communication systems Electricity 3 Expired
US8817617B2 Individual codec pathway impairment indicator for use in a communication Electricity 3 Active
US8351973B2 Short message service (SMS) over service access point identifier 0 (SAPI-0) Electricity 2 Active

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