H04L 2212/00
Encapsulation of packets
H04L2212/00 (Encapsulation of packets) appears on 1,261 US grants and 1,310 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,310
- Assignees
- 404
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Aggregating secured packets in a network device25 Aug 2026US 12,719,843 B2Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Per-port data security bypass for network devices18 Aug 2026US 12,712,853 B2Arista Networks, Inc.
- Techniques of handling overlay encapsulation11 Aug 2026US 12,706,861 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Networked device and method for communication between a profile module and a management unit of an integrated circuit card1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303141 A1Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security Germany GmbH
- Multi-Homing Device Handling of Host Changes During Control Plane Downtime1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303407 A1Arista Networks, Inc.
- Network design for substrate in the overlay24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291829 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Communication control system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291879 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method and apparatus for mapping threads of a unidirectional packet sequence flow in sdwan17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281045 A1Versa Networks, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Distributed connection-oriented services for switched communications networks673US 5,825,772 ACabletron Systems, Inc. · 1998
- System for signatureless transmission and reception of data packets between computer networks543US 5,548,646 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1996
- Interswitch link mechanism for connecting high-performance network switches430US 5,742,604 ACisco Systems, Inc. · 1998
- Method and apparatus for selectively retrieving information from a source computer using a terrestrial or satellite interface378US 5,852,721 AHughes Electronics Corporation · 1998
- Method and apparatus for selectively allocating and enforcing bandwidth usage requirements on network users341US 6,473,793 B1Hughes Electronics Corporation · 2002