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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

[1]Marian Croak patent portfolio
Primary record
United States Patent Office · Patent record
[2]Marian Croak inductee record, 2022
Institutional record
National Inventors Hall of Fame · Institutional record

Documentation strength

Strong

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Sources: 1
Primary: 2
Publishers

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