H04L 41/00
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks
Official title: Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
H04L41/00 (Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks) appears on 65,112 US grants and 74,363 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 65,112
- Published applications
- 74,363
- Assignees
- 8,796
- Inventors
- 105,879
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 197 | 0 |
| 1999 | 228 | 0 |
| 2000 | 333 | 0 |
| 2001 | 410 | 157 |
| 2002 | 394 | 1000 |
| 2003 | 434 | 1177 |
| 2004 | 525 | 1162 |
| 2005 | 548 | 1378 |
| 2006 | 807 | 1489 |
| 2007 | 712 | 1644 |
| 2008 | 972 | 1779 |
| 2009 | 1111 | 1736 |
| 2010 | 1666 | 1658 |
| 2011 | 1640 | 1797 |
| 2012 | 1724 | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1899 | 2690 |
| 2014 | 2648 | 3548 |
| 2015 | 3078 | 4122 |
| 2016 | 3300 | 4275 |
| 2017 | 3884 | 4329 |
| 2018 | 3823 | 4255 |
| 2019 | 4850 | 4635 |
| 2020 | 5428 | 4869 |
| 2021 | 4975 | 4472 |
| 2022 | 4583 | 4283 |
| 2023 | 4475 | 4304 |
| 2024 | 4134 | 4320 |
| 2025 | 3652 | 4031 |
| 2026 | 2391 | 3242 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 41/08Configuration management of networks or network elements30,823
- H04L 41/50Network service management14,727
- H04L 41/06Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications14,188
- H04L 41/14Network analysis or design8,521
- H04L 41/22Comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [gui]8,221
- H04L 41/12Discovery or management of network topologies7,558
- H04L 41/02Standardisation6,458
- H04L 41/40Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks: using virtualisation5,905
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- H04L 41/04Network management architectures or arrangements5,104
- H04L 41/16Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks: using machine4,653
- H04L 41/34Signalling channels for network management communication1,726
- H04L 41/28Restricting access to network management systems or functions1,431
- H04L 41/20Network management software packages932
- H04L 41/18Delegation of network management function411
- H04L 41/24Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks: using dedicated366
- H04L 41/32Specific management aspects for broadband networks252
- H04L 41/26Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks: using dedicated177
- H04L 41/30Decision processes by autonomous network management units using voting and bidding166
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