H04L 41/04
Network management architectures or arrangements
H04L41/04 (Network management architectures or arrangements) appears on 5,104 US grants and 5,442 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 5,104
- Published applications
- 5,442
- Assignees
- 1,344
- Inventors
- 10,595
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 0 |
| 1996 | 12 | 0 |
| 1997 | 20 | 0 |
| 1998 | 39 | 0 |
| 1999 | 30 | 0 |
| 2000 | 53 | 0 |
| 2001 | 68 | 15 |
| 2002 | 57 | 151 |
| 2003 | 70 | 142 |
| 2004 | 60 | 132 |
| 2005 | 62 | 159 |
| 2006 | 79 | 150 |
| 2007 | 76 | 146 |
| 2008 | 95 | 151 |
| 2009 | 105 | 116 |
| 2010 | 150 | 101 |
| 2011 | 145 | 123 |
| 2012 | 137 | 139 |
| 2013 | 128 | 169 |
| 2014 | 172 | 186 |
| 2015 | 179 | 187 |
| 2016 | 178 | 264 |
| 2017 | 195 | 317 |
| 2018 | 249 | 374 |
| 2019 | 400 | 409 |
| 2020 | 441 | 447 |
| 2021 | 478 | 400 |
| 2022 | 404 | 332 |
| 2023 | 385 | 295 |
| 2024 | 299 | 218 |
| 2025 | 210 | 177 |
| 2026 | 110 | 142 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 41/046Comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor3,365
- H04L 41/044Comprising hierarchical management structures697
- H04L 41/042Comprising distributed management centres cooperatively managing the network639
- H04L 41/052Using standardised network management architectures163
- H04L 41/045Comprising client-server management architectures94
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Centralized management in a computer network1,326US 4,995,035 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1991
- Data processing system having double supervising functions1,003US 5,448,724 AFujitsu Limited · 1995
- Method and apparatus for automatically updating software components on end systems over a network926US 6,009,274 A3Com Corporation · 1999
- Method and system for grouping storage system components818US 7,500,053 B1CommvVault Systems, Inc. · 2009
- Computing infrastructure672US 8,706,914 B22014