H04L 43/10
Active monitoring
Official title: Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
H04L43/10 (Active monitoring) appears on 7,853 US grants and 8,252 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 7,853
- Published applications
- 8,252
- Assignees
- 1,913
- Inventors
- 14,917
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 20 | 0 |
| 2000 | 33 | 0 |
| 2001 | 36 | 21 |
| 2002 | 32 | 113 |
| 2003 | 62 | 101 |
| 2004 | 74 | 112 |
| 2005 | 49 | 128 |
| 2006 | 78 | 135 |
| 2007 | 79 | 147 |
| 2008 | 88 | 155 |
| 2009 | 114 | 148 |
| 2010 | 170 | 160 |
| 2011 | 190 | 180 |
| 2012 | 164 | 220 |
| 2013 | 207 | 291 |
| 2014 | 271 | 448 |
| 2015 | 391 | 536 |
| 2016 | 403 | 570 |
| 2017 | 546 | 573 |
| 2018 | 580 | 542 |
| 2019 | 644 | 568 |
| 2020 | 678 | 583 |
| 2021 | 652 | 540 |
| 2022 | 614 | 554 |
| 2023 | 583 | 507 |
| 2024 | 463 | 401 |
| 2025 | 385 | 326 |
| 2026 | 188 | 193 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for facilitating dynamic command management in a network interface controller (NIC)6 Oct 2026US 12,754,857 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Networks for packet monitoring and replay6 Oct 2026US 12,756,641 B2BGC Partners, Inc.
- Application transaction monitoring with contextual flow information6 Oct 2026US 12,756,648 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Systems and methods for optimized tracing in IPV6 environments6 Oct 2026US 12,756,649 B2Zscaler, Inc.
- Highly available data-processing network functions for radio-based networks6 Oct 2026US 12,756,657 B2Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- System for detecting circuit anomalies in trailer wiring8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309762 A1Grote Industries, Inc.
- Device, method and medium in spectrum sharing system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313385 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Mapping user agents in network traffic data to client devices associated with a media exposure location1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303489 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Performance testing using asymmetric synthetic traffic1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303503 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Overlay-based oam for bgp fault detection1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303525 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Smart remote monitoring system and method1,009US 6,553,336 B1Telemonitor, Inc. · 2003
- Directory enabled policy management tool for intelligent traffic management997US 6,502,131 B1Novell, Inc. · 2002
- Method and apparatus for automatically updating software components on end systems over a network926US 6,009,274 A3Com Corporation · 1999
- Association management in a wireless node network755US 8,989,053 B1Fedex Corporate Services, Inc. · 2015
- System and method for measuring wireless device and network usage and performance metrics692US 6,754,470 B2Telephia, Inc. · 2004