H04L 12/1496
Involving discounts
Official title: {involving discounts}
H04L12/1496 (Involving discounts) appears on 197 US grants and 239 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 197
- Published applications
- 239
- Assignees
- 81
- Inventors
- 239
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002 | 1 | 8 |
| 2003 | 3 | 12 |
| 2004 | 4 | 16 |
| 2005 | 14 | 13 |
| 2006 | 10 | 14 |
| 2007 | 9 | 3 |
| 2008 | 4 | 0 |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 | 7 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4 |
| 2012 | 6 | 26 |
| 2013 | 10 | 12 |
| 2014 | 4 | 15 |
| 2015 | 18 | 25 |
| 2016 | 22 | 19 |
| 2017 | 18 | 16 |
| 2018 | 13 | 16 |
| 2019 | 13 | 8 |
| 2020 | 13 | 2 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Producing routing information for voice over IP communications4 Aug 2026US 12,701,077 B2VolP-Pal.com, Inc.
- Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity14 Apr 2026US 12,603,845 B2Headwater Research LLC
- Determining a time to permit a communications session to be conducted19 Aug 2025US 12,395,425 B2VolP-Pal.com, Inc.
- Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity10 Dec 2024US 12,166,596 B2Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity19 Nov 2024US 12,149,370 B2Headwater Research LLC
- Device-Assisted Services for Protecting Network Capacity4 Dec 2025US 2025/0373612 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Determining a Time to Permit a Communications Session to be Conducted4 Dec 2025US 2025/0373732 A1Voip-Pal.Com, Inc.
- Device-Assisted Services for Protecting Network Capacity6 Mar 2025US 2025/0080370 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Device Group Partitions and Settlement Platform16 Jan 2025US 2025/0023749 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Device-Assisted Services for Protecting Network Capacity10 Oct 2024US 2024/0340190 A1Headwater Research LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works1,495US 5,629,980 AXerox Corporation · 1997
- System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works using digital tickets544US 6,236,971 B1ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. · 2001
- Service level management in a hybrid network architecture361US 6,556,659 B1Accenture LLP · 2003
- Distributed network communication system which enables multiple network providers to use a common distributed network infrastructure354US 6,732,176 B1Wayport, Inc. · 2004
- Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity175US 8,589,541 B2Headwater Partners I LLC · 2013