H04L 12/54
Store-and-forward switching systems
Official title: Store-and-forward switching systems (packet switching systems H04L45/00, H04L47/00)
H04L12/54 (Store-and-forward switching systems) appears on 9,801 US grants and 4,967 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 9,801
- Published applications
- 4,967
- Assignees
- 1,700
- Inventors
- 13,883
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 44 | 33 |
| 2025 | 37 | 28 |
| 2026 | 19 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Multi-level video processing within a vehicular communication network29 Sep 2026US 12,749,358 B2Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
- System and method for generating a unified network topology for incident detection and response22 Sep 2026US 12,744,794 B2BigPanda, Inc.
- Life cycle management of a receiver with an artificial intelligence receiver module15 Sep 2026US 12,739,068 B2Viavi Solutions Inc.
- Adaptive frame alignment8 Sep 2026US 12,732,397 B1Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- Fault response models for data replication spanning different methodologies25 Aug 2026US 12,719,817 B2Everpure, Inc.
- Techniques for diminishing latency in a distributed antenna system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269870 A1Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
- Ethernet collision detection27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254675 A1Infineon Technologies AG
- Method and Devices of Communication in a Computing Network using Switch Proxy20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246664 A1Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- System and Method for Registration and Resource Allocation in Distributed Networks Using Whisper Identifiers6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230510 A1Bank of America Corporation
- Systems and methods for managing sensor assignments in thermal management systems23 Jul 2026US 2026/0214863 A1Vertiv Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Distributed memory switching hub1,538US 6,175,571 B1Network Peripherals, Inc. · 2001
- Method of supporting unknown addresses in an interface for data transmission in an asynchronous transfer mode1,030US 6,151,323 A3Com Technologies · 2000
- Multimedia channel formulation mechanism978US 5,699,361 AIndustrial Technology Research Institute · 1997
- Method and apparatus for automatically updating software components on end systems over a network926US 6,009,274 A3Com Corporation · 1999
- Multimedia bidirectional broadcast system878US 5,027,400 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1991