H04B 10/27
Arrangements for networking
H04B10/27 (Arrangements for networking) appears on 2,721 US grants and 2,954 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 2,721
- Published applications
- 2,954
- Assignees
- 746
- Inventors
- 4,540
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 11 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 16 | 0 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
| 1990 | 9 | 0 |
| 1991 | 15 | 0 |
| 1992 | 8 | 0 |
| 1993 | 12 | 0 |
| 1994 | 19 | 0 |
| 1995 | 13 | 0 |
| 1996 | 20 | 0 |
| 1997 | 15 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 22 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 19 | 7 |
| 2002 | 28 | 47 |
| 2003 | 23 | 29 |
| 2004 | 19 | 28 |
| 2005 | 14 | 29 |
| 2006 | 28 | 41 |
| 2007 | 24 | 88 |
| 2008 | 41 | 70 |
| 2009 | 33 | 64 |
| 2010 | 29 | 52 |
| 2011 | 41 | 66 |
| 2012 | 59 | 90 |
| 2013 | 80 | 132 |
| 2014 | 97 | 178 |
| 2015 | 160 | 215 |
| 2016 | 185 | 185 |
| 2017 | 195 | 215 |
| 2018 | 201 | 154 |
| 2019 | 201 | 153 |
| 2020 | 159 | 157 |
| 2021 | 154 | 175 |
| 2022 | 167 | 187 |
| 2023 | 159 | 189 |
| 2024 | 166 | 160 |
| 2025 | 117 | 151 |
| 2026 | 85 | 92 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical communication system, optical transmitting and receiving apparatus, and optical communication method6 Oct 2026US 12,756,471 B2NTT, Inc.
- Quantum key distribution in an optical network and quantum-secured optical channels6 Oct 2026US 12,756,546 B2Ciena Corporation
- Interworking between variable capacity optical layer and Ethernet/IP/MPLS layer6 Oct 2026US 12,756,961 B2Ciena Corporation
- Distributed wireline/wireless bandwidth orchestration/aggregation to PON/WAN nodes using licensed and/or unlicensed spectrum (including satellite)29 Sep 2026US 12,750,684 B2AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Granularity aware end-to-end bandwidth reservation and routing path selection22 Sep 2026US 12,744,727 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Optical transmission device and optical transmission method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303209 A1NTT, Inc.
- Bidirectional communications in passive optical networks24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291609 A1Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Optical Communication System And Reset Method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291622 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Optical line termination power saving mode17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280713 A1Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Optical distribution network with coexisting passive optical network and coherent passive optical network10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269943 A1Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical communications network466US 4,977,593 ABritish Telecommunications plc · 1990
- Transport of payload information and control messages on multiple orthogonal carriers spread throughout substantially all of a frequency bandwith320US 6,275,990 B1ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2001
- Local area network optical fiber data communication278US 4,366,565 A1982
- Channel selection for a hybrid fiber coax network264US 6,334,219 B1ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2001
- Optical fiber-based distributed antenna systems, components, and related methods for calibration thereof243US 8,532,492 B2Corning Cable Systems LLC · 2013