InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

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Let me know what you think of TIME DOMAIN. I think you already know about Schilling's 4G company (Golden Bridge).


Donald L. Schilling, Ph.D.
Chairman
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Dr. Schilling has been recognized throughout the world for his extensive contributions to the field of telecommunications. In addition, he is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering with the City College of New York where he taught for many years. An invited speaker and lecturer at numerous conferences worldwide, he holds more than eighty patents, has published more than 200 technical papers, and is the recipient of numerous international awards.

Dr. Schilling has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Golden Bridge Technology since 1996, where he filed six new patent applications in addition to the numerous patents already held. Previously, Dr. Schilling served as CEO and Vice-Chairman of the Board of InterDigital Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: IDCC). From 1982 to 1992, he was Chairman and CEO of SCS Mobilcom Inc. and SCS Telecom Incorporated. During this time, fifteen fundamental patents were granted covering W-CDMA.


Here's an interesting 1999 interview:

.........Then there was a "shootout." By the time there was a shootout, Milicom had decided to withdraw from the project. SCS then merged with Interdigital Communications Corporation (IDC) and I became executive vice president and also vice chairman of the board, and a large shareholder.

At that time I retired from City College and went to work fulltime at this job. Primarily we were selling wireless loop systems, which is a wireless telephone system there was no wired infrastructure.

For example, how do you run cable to 25,000 islands in Indonesia? In China there is not enough copper in the world to supply wired communications, nor enough people to install that copper, if there was such copper, in a lifetime. In a capitalistic society you must communicate, and in order to communicate quickly, we had to provide them with wireless communications.

Interdigital’s business was doing that initially with TDMA, and then they wanted our broadband CDMA system, and that was under development. IDC also received about 50 of my CDMA related patents. They now have the CDMA product working. They are also very active 3G technology.

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/oral_histories/transcripts/schilling.html