Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

William D. Gentry

17Patents
8h-index
30Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: May 5, 1998 → Apr 12, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6453162B1 Method and system for subscriber provisioning of wireless services Electricity 75 Expired
US6519242B1 Apparatus and method of PSTN based network roaming and SCP based subscriber management for internet telephony systems Electricity 73 Expired
US6799210B1 Dynamic association of endpoints to media gateway controllers Electricity 64 Expired
US6888803B1 System, method, and computer program product for connectivity of wireless base station to PSTN via an IP data network Electricity 59 Expired
US7286545B1 Service broker Electricity 44 Expired
US7587031B1 Forced hold call handling in a VoP environment Electricity 22 Active
US6496578B1 Integrated telecommunications services for mobile and landline telephony service subscriber Electricity 14 Expired
US6704796B1 Method and system for integrated wireline and wireless services in a switching system Electricity 8 Expired
US6745244B1 Method and system for integrated wireline and wireless services in a switching system Physics 6 Expired
US6732174B1 Apparatus and method of establishing a call using wireless and wireline integration through a telecommunication switch Electricity 2 Expired
US8433298B2 Enabling mid-call services to be added to a communication session by a wireless device Electricity 1 Active
US8233591B2 Forced hold call handling in a VoP environment Electricity 1 Active
US8107932B1 Enabling mid-call services to be added to a communication session by a wireless device Electricity 1 Active
US11758049B1 Techniques for using call metadata as an indicator for calling party authenticity Electricity 0 Active
US11522921B1 Core network bypass for toll-free calling Electricity 0 Active
US8705517B2 Forced hold call handling in a VoP environment Electricity 0 Active
US9161190B2 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for unifying fixed and mobile devices via third party call control Electricity 0 Active

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