H04L 12/2814
Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home
Official title: {Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network (arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08)}
H04L12/2814 (Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home) appears on 739 US grants and 927 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 739
- Published applications
- 927
- Assignees
- 308
- Inventors
- 1,531
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 28 | 31 |
| 2025 | 28 | 25 |
| 2026 | 10 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for collecting data using compact internetworked wireless integrated network sensors (WINS)932US 6,735,630 B1Sensoria Corporation · 2004
- Multi-service in-home network with an open interface724US 6,526,581 B1Ucentric Holdings, Inc. · 2003
- Browser based command and control home network693US 6,288,716 B1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Programming tool for home networks with an HTML page for a plurality of home devices634US 6,182,094 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Multi-services application gateway and system employing the same602US 8,543,665 B2Prodea Systems, Inc. · 2013