H04L 12/40006
Architecture of a communication node
Official title: {Architecture of a communication node (current supply arrangements H04L12/10; intermediate storage or scheduling H04L49/90)}
H04L12/40006 (Architecture of a communication node) appears on 3,548 US grants and 3,662 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 12/40013Details regarding a bus controller1,077
- H04L 12/40032Details regarding a bus interface enhancer906
- H04L 12/40045Details regarding the feeding of energy to the node from the bus739
- H04L 12/40039Details regarding the setting of the power status of a node according399
- H04L 12/40019Details regarding a bus master260
- H04L 12/40026Details regarding a bus guardian128
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