H04L 12/2807
Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network
Official title: {Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network (arrangements for maintenance or administration involving network analysis for automatically determining the actual topology of a network H04L41/12; hardware or software tools for network management using graphical user interfaces H04L41/22; address allocation H04L61/50)}
H04L12/2807 (Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network) appears on 3,434 US grants and 4,379 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 12/2809Indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network1,606
- H04L 12/2814Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home739
- H04L 12/2812Describing content present in a home automation network588
- H04L 12/281Indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home483
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