H04L 41/28
Restricting access to network management systems or functions
Official title: Restricting access to network management systems or functions, e.g. using authorisation function to access network configuration
H04L41/28 (Restricting access to network management systems or functions) appears on 1,431 US grants and 1,509 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 1,431
- Published applications
- 1,509
- Assignees
- 558
- Inventors
- 3,202
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 12 | 0 |
| 2000 | 18 | 0 |
| 2001 | 21 | 4 |
| 2002 | 12 | 21 |
| 2003 | 21 | 34 |
| 2004 | 8 | 27 |
| 2005 | 17 | 50 |
| 2006 | 19 | 32 |
| 2007 | 15 | 26 |
| 2008 | 6 | 30 |
| 2009 | 26 | 18 |
| 2010 | 21 | 39 |
| 2011 | 29 | 32 |
| 2012 | 25 | 53 |
| 2013 | 46 | 57 |
| 2014 | 52 | 74 |
| 2015 | 69 | 93 |
| 2016 | 86 | 101 |
| 2017 | 114 | 112 |
| 2018 | 104 | 94 |
| 2019 | 105 | 106 |
| 2020 | 113 | 118 |
| 2021 | 108 | 94 |
| 2022 | 101 | 85 |
| 2023 | 97 | 74 |
| 2024 | 90 | 73 |
| 2025 | 58 | 37 |
| 2026 | 23 | 25 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for automatically updating software components on end systems over a network926US 6,009,274 A3Com Corporation · 1999
- Automatic configuration for internet access device763US 6,012,088 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000
- Distributed administration of access to information650US 6,408,336 B12002
- Graphical network security policy management615US 6,484,261 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Method and system for adaptive network security using network vulnerability assessment549US 6,301,668 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2001