H04L 12/2854
Wide area networks
Official title: {Wide area networks, e.g. public data networks}
H04L12/2854 (Wide area networks) appears on 4,199 US grants and 4,316 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 4,199
- Published applications
- 4,316
- Assignees
- 1,186
- Inventors
- 7,638
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2022 | 152 | 151 |
| 2023 | 138 | 100 |
| 2024 | 144 | 97 |
| 2025 | 71 | 54 |
| 2026 | 44 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Proxy device with delay measuring capability22 Sep 2026US 12,744,828 B2Bright Data Ltd.
- Initiating a communication or connectivity service between a first location and a second location based on optical data transmission of a user-defined optical signal15 Sep 2026US 12,739,048 B2Deutsche Telekom AG
- Apparatus, system, and method for selectively configuring line cards to conserve power in network fabrics15 Sep 2026US 12,739,172 B1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Content fetching by mobile device selected based on battery charge level15 Sep 2026US 12,739,296 B2Bright Data Ltd.
- Broadband access management systems and methods1 Sep 2026US 12,726,566 B2Epic Lane Networks, LP
- Systems and methods for supporting phase adjustments over docsis1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303247 A1ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303681 A1Bright Data Ltd.
- Selective forwarding, prioritization, and queueing by edge devices17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280929 A1Insight Direct USA, Inc.
- Analog and digital communication system for interfacing plain old telephone service devices with a network17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281861 A1Granite Telecommunications, LLC
- System and method for path computation service for a service aware virtual topology over a wide area network9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197267 A1Arista Networks, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- System and method for providing content, management, and interactivity for client devices1,890US 7,130,616 B2Simple Devices · 2006
- System and methodology for managing internet access on a per application basis for client computers connected to the internet1,331US 5,987,611 AZone Labs, Inc. · 1999
- Automatic configuration for internet access device763US 6,012,088 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000
- Access to telecommunications networks in multi-service environment695US 5,610,910 ANorthern Telecom Limited · 1997