H04L 41/12
Discovery or management of network topologies
H04L41/12 (Discovery or management of network topologies) appears on 7,558 US grants and 8,119 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 7,558
- Published applications
- 8,119
- Assignees
- 1,673
- Inventors
- 15,833
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 19 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 24 | 17 |
| 2002 | 43 | 71 |
| 2003 | 41 | 97 |
| 2004 | 56 | 89 |
| 2005 | 62 | 114 |
| 2006 | 82 | 138 |
| 2007 | 66 | 113 |
| 2008 | 81 | 139 |
| 2009 | 109 | 158 |
| 2010 | 170 | 165 |
| 2011 | 163 | 139 |
| 2012 | 160 | 145 |
| 2013 | 146 | 286 |
| 2014 | 236 | 337 |
| 2015 | 319 | 414 |
| 2016 | 343 | 527 |
| 2017 | 471 | 510 |
| 2018 | 429 | 568 |
| 2019 | 704 | 456 |
| 2020 | 611 | 479 |
| 2021 | 520 | 499 |
| 2022 | 578 | 629 |
| 2023 | 639 | 655 |
| 2024 | 615 | 625 |
| 2025 | 544 | 433 |
| 2026 | 262 | 316 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Automated infrastructure management for computer systems based on system rules, templates, and system state with deployment of computing environments6 Oct 2026US 12,754,773 B2Net-Thunder, LLC
- Score based certainty estimation of prediction6 Oct 2026US 12,755,207 B2Triangle IP, Inc.
- Binding indications for notification resiliency6 Oct 2026US 12,756,630 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Method for updating network topology and control node6 Oct 2026US 12,756,631 B2Moxa Inc.
- Filtered advertisements of secondary servers6 Oct 2026US 12,756,632 B2CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Technologies for coordinating disaggregated accelerator device resources8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310502 A1Intel Corporation
- Location determination based on network element clustering8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312872 A1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Systems and methods for use in location identification for network-based divisions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312874 A1Mastercard International Incorporated
- Automatically configuring network elements in multi-vendor and multi-domain topologies1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303463 A1AT&T Communications Services India Private Limited
- High availability design for network fabric controllers1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303465 A1Oracle International Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Using virtual networking devices and routing information to initiate external actions765US 8,224,971 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Method and apparatus for automatically configuring a network device to support a virtual network671US 5,751,967 ABay Networks Group, Inc. · 1998
- Template-driven approach for generating models on network services599US 6,336,138 B12002
- Method and system for adaptive network security using network vulnerability assessment549US 6,301,668 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2001
- Distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services528US 7,818,452 B2Fortinet, Inc. · 2010