H04L 2101/60
Types of network addresses
H04L2101/60 (Types of network addresses) appears on 8,460 US grants and 9,218 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 8,460
- Published applications
- 9,218
- Assignees
- 1,912
- Inventors
- 13,922
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 480 | 369 |
| 2025 | 371 | 308 |
| 2026 | 181 | 145 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 2101/618Details of network addressesIndexing code5,930
- H04L 2101/604Address structures or formatsIndexing code1,125
- H04L 2101/668Internet protocol [ip] address subnetsIndexing code967
- H04L 2101/69Using geographic informationIndexing code769
- H04L 2101/677Multiple interfacesIndexing code270
- H04L 2101/686Using dual-stack hostsIndexing code229
- H04L 2101/695Using masks or ranges of addressesIndexing code147
- H04L 2101/681Using addresses for wireless personal area networks or wireless sensor networksIndexing code130
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Universal access multimedia data network693US 5,790,548 ABell Atlantic Network Services, Inc. · 1998
- Security system for network address translation systems670US 5,793,763 ACisco Technology, Inc. · 1998
- Firewall providing enhanced network security and user transparency578US 5,898,830 ANetwork Engineering Software, Inc. · 1999
- Network device identity authentication499US 7,240,364 B1Ciena Corporation · 2007
- Universal access multimedia data network497US 6,452,925 B1Verizon Services Corp. · 2002