H04J 2203/0012
Switching modules and their interconnections
H04J2203/0012 (Switching modules and their interconnections) appears on 146 US grants and 61 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04J- Granted patents
- 146
- Published applications
- 61
- Assignees
- 59
- Inventors
- 283
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Physical network orchestration for data centers12 May 2026US 12,627,557 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Physical network orchestration for data centers21 Oct 2025US 12,452,128 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Physical network orchestration for data centers6 Jul 2021US 11,057,270 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- OTN adaptation for support of subrate granularity and flexibility and for distribution across multiple modem engines15 Jun 2021US 11,038,610 B2Ciena Corporation
- Protection group superposition switching method, control apparatus, and optical communication device13 Apr 2021US 10,979,138 B2Sino-Telecom Technology Co., Inc.
- Physical network orchestration for data centers24 Nov 2022US 2022/0376973 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Physical network orchestration for data centers14 Apr 2022US 2022/0116271 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Protection group superposition switching method, control apparatus, and optical communication device3 Dec 2020US 2020/0382209 A1Sino-Telecom Technology Co., Inc.
- OTN adaptation for support of subrate granularity and flexibility and for distribution across multiple modem engines16 Jul 2020US 2020/0228221 A1Ciena Corporation
- Physical network orchestration for data centers26 Mar 2020US 2020/0099581 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Intra-switch communications in narrow band ATM networks314US 5,428,607 AAT&T Corp. · 1995
- Communication system control arrangement255US 4,720,850 AAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories · 1988
- ATM networks for narrow band communications248US 5,422,882 AAT&T Corp. · 1995
- Access switches for large ATM networks246US 5,452,297 AAT&T Corp. · 1995
- Reverse path multiplexer for use in high speed data transmissions245US 6,137,793 ACOM21, Inc. · 2000