H04L 41/5029
Service quality level-based billing
Official title: {Service quality level-based billing, e.g. dependent on measured service level customer is charged more or less}
H04L41/5029 (Service quality level-based billing) appears on 435 US grants and 430 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 435
- Published applications
- 430
- Assignees
- 184
- Inventors
- 920
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 7 |
| 2002 | 10 | 20 |
| 2003 | 10 | 14 |
| 2004 | 6 | 4 |
| 2005 | 13 | 9 |
| 2006 | 5 | 6 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14 |
| 2008 | 3 | 11 |
| 2009 | 10 | 11 |
| 2010 | 11 | 8 |
| 2011 | 29 | 18 |
| 2012 | 16 | 18 |
| 2013 | 14 | 23 |
| 2014 | 22 | 28 |
| 2015 | 34 | 45 |
| 2016 | 31 | 31 |
| 2017 | 34 | 25 |
| 2018 | 23 | 14 |
| 2019 | 30 | 24 |
| 2020 | 31 | 26 |
| 2021 | 23 | 23 |
| 2022 | 20 | 16 |
| 2023 | 14 | 14 |
| 2024 | 15 | 10 |
| 2025 | 11 | 10 |
| 2026 | 5 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method and apparatus for determining slice information, storage medium, and electronic device28 Apr 2026US 12,615,210 B2Zte Corporation
- Systems and methods for supporting usage limits for a group of user equipment based on network slice admission control and policy and charging control21 Apr 2026US 12,610,352 B2Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity14 Apr 2026US 12,603,845 B2Headwater Research LLC
- Secured distributed mesh network27 Jan 2026US 12,538,365 B2Instant! Communications Inc
- Flow Tagging for Service Policy Implementation1 Jan 2026US 2026/0005945 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Device-Assisted Services for Protecting Network Capacity4 Dec 2025US 2025/0373612 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Methods of and devices for implementing and executing policy rules on a per application basis in a telecommunications system23 Oct 2025US 2025/0330541 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Personalized service scheduling16 Oct 2025US 2025/0323844 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Providing access by a user to a newly deployed enterprise system in a cloud computing environment (as amended)25 Sep 2025US 2025/0300909 A1Fidelity Information Services, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for providing requested quality of service in a hybrid network755US 6,335,927 B12002
- User device and system for traffic management and content distribution over a world wide area network569US 6,484,143 B1Speedera Networks, Inc. · 2002
- Content delivery and global traffic management network system547US 6,754,699 B2Speedera Networks, Inc. · 2004
- System and method for monitoring quality of service over network533US 6,078,953 AUkiah Software, Inc. · 2000
- System, method and article of manufacture for implementing a hybrid network484US 6,611,867 B1Accenture LLP · 2003