H04L 12/1403
Architecture for metering, charging or billing
Official title: {Architecture for metering, charging or billing}
H04L12/1403 (Architecture for metering, charging or billing) appears on 2,396 US grants and 2,919 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 2,396
- Published applications
- 2,919
- Assignees
- 500
- Inventors
- 3,500
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2012 | 69 | 146 |
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| 2024 | 142 | 138 |
| 2025 | 119 | 112 |
| 2026 | 64 | 94 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Methods for supporting user notification services for events in a network6 Oct 2026US 12,756,586 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Obtaining information relating to tethering events6 Oct 2026US 12,756,587 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- 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
- Performance measurements for network exposure function8 Sep 2026US 12,732,447 B2Intel Corporation
- 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)
- Support for dynamic pcc with prose sa8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313739 A1InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
- Network node and a method in a wireless communications network1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304206 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works1,495US 5,629,980 AXerox Corporation · 1997
- System, method and article of manufacture for communications utilizing calling, plans in a hybrid network1,175US 5,867,495 AMCI Communications Corporations · 1999
- System and method for providing requested quality of service in a hybrid network755US 6,335,927 B12002
- System, method and article of manufacture with integrated video conferencing billing in a communication system architecture751US 5,867,494 AMCI Communication Corporation · 1999
- Verifiable service billing for intermediate networking devices555US 8,023,425 B2Headwater Partners I LLC · 2011