H04L 12/2856

Access arrangements

Official title: {Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access (asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W)}

H04L12/2856 (Access arrangements) appears on 3,441 US grants and 3,542 published applications in this corpus.

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