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Bill Long — 9 Patents

LCLevel 3 Communications: 8 patents #201 of 1,318Top 20%
Redwood City, CA: #1,091 of 5,061 inventorsTop 25%
California: #67,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Bill Long has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Level 3 Communications. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in September 2014. Bill Long ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Bill Long in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 21987: 1 patents19872009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 2 patents20122014: 2 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8842817 Functionalities for local number portability in a telecommunications network Gregory Brown, James D. Carlson, Maria Farnon, Greg A. Land, Troy Lynette +1 more 2014-09-23 $78,803,000
8761371 Functionalities for local number portability in a telecommunications network Gregory Brown, James D. Carlson, Maria Farnon, Greg A. Land, Troy Lynette +1 more 2014-06-24 $39,225,000
8265258 Functionalities for local number portability in a telecommunications network Gregory Brown, James D. Carlson, Maria Farnon, Greg A. Land, Troy Lynette +1 more 2012-09-11 $10,564,000
8265259 Functionalities for local number portability in a telecommunications network Gregory Brown, James D. Carlson, Maria Farnon, Greg A. Land, Troy Lynette +1 more 2012-09-11 $10,564,000
8060101 Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) provisioning and voicemail routing by a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) Wayne Simpkins 2011-11-15 $25,959,000
7961863 System and method for major trading area (MTA) routing in a telecommunications network Dan Jordan, Alissa Baan, Janis Griffin 2011-06-14 $17,297,000
7657017 System and method for major trading area (MTA) routing in a telecommunications network Richard Dean Terpstra, Greg Gualtieri, Dan Jordan 2010-02-02 $44,514,000
7580516 System and method for major trading area (MTA) routing in a telecommunications network Dan Jordan, Alissa Baan, Janis Griffin 2009-08-25 $53,233,000
4700395 Recreational cooler and speaker system 1987-10-13