H04L 41/20
Network management software packages
Official title: {Network management software packages}
H04L41/20 (Network management software packages) appears on 932 US grants and 907 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 932
- Published applications
- 907
- Assignees
- 311
- Inventors
- 1,715
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 5 |
| 2003 | 4 | 9 |
| 2004 | 0 | 7 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 6 |
| 2008 | 7 | 14 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5 |
| 2010 | 2 | 5 |
| 2011 | 10 | 12 |
| 2012 | 11 | 7 |
| 2013 | 9 | 25 |
| 2014 | 9 | 29 |
| 2015 | 19 | 31 |
| 2016 | 48 | 79 |
| 2017 | 57 | 123 |
| 2018 | 67 | 94 |
| 2019 | 115 | 97 |
| 2020 | 125 | 97 |
| 2021 | 133 | 94 |
| 2022 | 94 | 54 |
| 2023 | 87 | 48 |
| 2024 | 56 | 29 |
| 2025 | 34 | 24 |
| 2026 | 9 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Interconnection platform for real-time configuration and management of a cloud-based services exchange15 Sep 2026US 12,737,157 B2Equinix, Inc.
- Access control and ownership transfer of digital content using a decentralized content fabric and ledger11 Aug 2026US 12,706,842 B2Eluvio, Inc.
- System and method for managing computing devices12 May 2026US 12,627,574 B2Core Scientific, Inc.
- Generating the ancestry of a deployment in a cloud environment12 May 2026US 12,627,686 B1Fortinet, Inc.
- Fine-grained SD-WAN optimization services for cloud-native applications5 May 2026US 12,621,180 B2
- Network virtual function health monitoring27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254731 A1Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
- Temporal gesture recognition for virtual and augmented reality systems13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237198 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Migrating legacy automation tools used in network monitoring systems11 Jun 2026US 2026/0161366 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Techniques for Recognizing Alternative Input Via Gesture Recognition Tuples for User Interactions with Assistant Systems11 Jun 2026US 2026/0162417 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- System and a Method for Determining an Optimal Network Configuration for a Communication Network28 May 2026US 2026/0149638 A1ABB Schweiz AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for defining and enforcing policies for configuration management in communications networks410US 5,872,928 ACabletron Systems, Inc. · 1999
- Policy management and conflict resolution in computer networks407US 5,889,953 ACabletron Systems, Inc. · 1999
- Network connection status monitor and display279US 5,751,965 ACabletron System, Inc. · 1998
- Method for building element manager for a computer network element using a visual element manager builder process268US 6,272,537 B1Fujitsu Limited · 2001
- Method and apparatus providing a graphical user interface for representing and navigating hierarchical networks256US 6,628,304 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2003