H04L 12/14
Charging, metering or billing arrangements specially adapted for data communications
Official title: Charging, metering or billing arrangements specially adapted for data communications, e.g. authentication, authorisation and accounting [AAA] framework
H04L12/14 (Charging, metering or billing arrangements specially adapted for data communications) appears on 4,712 US grants and 5,736 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 4,712
- Published applications
- 5,736
- Assignees
- 1,115
- Inventors
- 7,681
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 34 | 137 |
| 2003 | 37 | 135 |
| 2004 | 49 | 138 |
| 2005 | 59 | 150 |
| 2006 | 73 | 146 |
| 2007 | 73 | 174 |
| 2008 | 89 | 188 |
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| 2012 | 203 | 339 |
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| 2024 | 209 | 174 |
| 2025 | 165 | 152 |
| 2026 | 81 | 118 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 12/1403Architecture for metering, charging or billing2,396
- H04L 12/1453Methods or systems for payment or settlement of the charges for data935
- H04L 12/1432Metric aspects791
- H04L 12/1485Tariff-related aspects726
- H04L 12/141Indication of costs325
- H04L 12/1442At network operator level305
- H04L 12/1428Invoice generation242
- H04L 12/1425Involving dedicated fields in the data packet for billing purposes135
Recent patents
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- Provisioning for event trigger based policy at near-RT RIC on A1 interface6 Oct 2026US 12,756,625 B2Parallel Wireless, Inc.
- Concurrent control for share quota for strict limits in realtime charging15 Sep 2026US 12,737,223 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Enabling role-based operations to be performed on machine data in a machine environment15 Sep 2026US 12,739,256 B1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Machine learning based rating failure characterization in wireless communication networks8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312878 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Methods and apparatuses for supporting charging of a federated service8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313327 A1Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Interworking between congestion information exposure mechanisms for wireless communications8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313452 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Enterprise Access Control and Accounting Allocation for Access Networks8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313724 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Support for dynamic pcc with prose sa8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313739 A1InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
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