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Marian Croak
Engineer of voice over IP and text-to-donate
At a glance
- Inventor
- Marian Croak
- Life
- b. 1955
- Birthplace
- New York City
- Country
- United States
- Region
- United States
- Era
- 2000–Present
- Fields
- Technology & Computing
- Evidence
- Verified
- Records
- 1 in this archive
What they did
Croak holds more than 200 patents, many in voice over Internet Protocol, and developed the text-to-donate system used for large-scale disaster relief giving.
Historical context
Telephony ran on circuit switching. Moving voice onto packet networks required solving quality, routing and reliability problems at scale.
The legacy
Every internet voice and video call inherits this work. Croak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022.
The evidence
Marian Croak patent portfolio
Marian Croak inductee record, 2022