H04L 45/037
Routes obligatorily traversing service-related nodes
H04L45/037 (Routes obligatorily traversing service-related nodes) appears on 162 US grants and 201 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 162
- Published applications
- 201
- Assignees
- 70
- Inventors
- 445
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2016 | 5 | 8 |
| 2017 | 8 | 14 |
| 2018 | 8 | 15 |
| 2019 | 15 | 12 |
| 2020 | 9 | 15 |
| 2021 | 31 | 23 |
| 2022 | 15 | 16 |
| 2023 | 14 | 17 |
| 2024 | 12 | 28 |
| 2025 | 21 | 22 |
| 2026 | 13 | 15 |
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Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Methods, network nodes and computer readable media for network node reselection25 Aug 2026US 12,720,371 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Secure identification of applications in communication network18 Aug 2026US 12,713,240 B2Nokia Technologies Oy
- Network service chains using sustainability11 Aug 2026US 12,706,836 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Apparatuses, methods and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for network access11 Aug 2026US 12,707,514 B2Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Fabric interconnect as a service in middle mile network4 Aug 2026US 12,701,033 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Encapsulation device, communication system, encapsulation method, and encapsulation program13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238592 A1NTT, Inc.
- Route Configuration Method and Apparatus, Device, Storage Medium, and Computer Program6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230429 A1Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Multi-tenanted service fabric through sdwan30 Jul 2026US 2026/0222335 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Network link establishment in a multi-cloud infrastructure16 Jul 2026US 2026/0205451 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Data packet processing method and apparatus, and network device2 Jul 2026US 2026/0189638 A1Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Three tiers of SaaS providers for deploying compute and network infrastructure in the public cloud128US 10,999,165 B2VMware, Inc. · 2021
- Software defined wide area network (SD WAN) enabled network fabric for containers112US 10,911,374 B1Riverbed Technology, Inc. · 2021
- Service node originated service chains in a network environment75US 9,344,337 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2016
- Service node originated service chains in a network environment73US 9,608,896 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2017
- Method and system of service placement for service chaining45US 9,319,324 B2Telefonaktiebolaget'l M Ericsson (Publ) · 2016