Daniel P. Williams
Daniel P. Williams concentrates his practice in preparing and prosecuting high-quality patent applications in a number of high-tech areas. In particular, he has extensive patent-prosecution experience in telecommunications, directed to and involving infrastructure elements such as mobile stations and base stations, as well as protocols such as CDMA, EV-DO, WiMax, and others. More specifically, he has experience with concepts and mechanisms such as preferred roaming list (PRL), slot cycle index, frame error rate (FER), packet error rate (PER), signal-to-noise ratio (SINR), carrier-frequency selection, neighbor lists, channel-list messages, forward and reverse-link waveform architecture, reverse activity bit (RAB), reverse-link transitional probabilities, control-channel bit rates, carrier-frequency selection, etc. Furthermore, Mr. Williams has experience prosecuting applications involving Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) networks, location-based services, digital rights management, Mobile IP, VoIP, E-911 services, Domain Name Service (DNS), wireless local loop (WLL), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications, third-party call control (3PCC), network address translation (NAT), Internet security protocols (IPSec), cable-delivered data services, the TCP/IP protocol suite, surveillance of packet-based communications, database-searching techniques, on-board vehicle diagnostic systems, as well as many other technologies. He also has experience in a number of other technical areas, including software development, operating systems, and microprocessor architecture, as well as in both patent and trade-secret litigation.
Mr. Williams is also the editor-in-chief of MBHB's Snippets® newsletter, and the inventor of U.S. Patent No. 7,130,664.
education
J.D., Harvard Law School
B.S.E., University of Michigan, Computer Engineering, Magna Cum Laude
bar admissions
Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office