H04L 43/20
The monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined
Official title: the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV
H04L43/20 (The monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined) appears on 3,078 US grants and 3,364 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 3,078
- Published applications
- 3,364
- Assignees
- 633
- Inventors
- 6,752
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 3 | 8 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 | 4 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 | 5 |
| 2007 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 4 | 7 |
| 2009 | 4 | 5 |
| 2010 | 9 | 12 |
| 2011 | 9 | 20 |
| 2012 | 11 | 11 |
| 2013 | 15 | 46 |
| 2014 | 27 | 62 |
| 2015 | 46 | 131 |
| 2016 | 98 | 223 |
| 2017 | 128 | 251 |
| 2018 | 229 | 292 |
| 2019 | 307 | 385 |
| 2020 | 426 | 419 |
| 2021 | 450 | 387 |
| 2022 | 376 | 301 |
| 2023 | 331 | 288 |
| 2024 | 280 | 244 |
| 2025 | 213 | 147 |
| 2026 | 87 | 100 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Network security threat detection by user/user-entity behavioral analysis997US 9,516,053 B1Splunk Inc. · 2016
- End-to-end monitoring of overlay networks providing virtualized network services314US 9,787,559 B1Juniper Networks, Inc. · 2017
- Configurable stresser for a web server291US 6,446,120 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2002
- Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring networks266US 8,228,818 B2AT&T Intellectual Property II, L. P. · 2012
- Fault management in a VDSL network243US 7,134,135 B2Qwest Communications International Inc. · 2006