H04L 45/122
By minimising distances
Official title: by minimising distances, e.g. by selecting a route with minimum of number of hops
H04L45/122 (By minimising distances) appears on 883 US grants and 981 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Enhancements to data radio bearer parameters for ue-to-ue relays17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281056 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Wireless network system and method for providing same525US 6,044,062 ACommUnique, LLC · 2000
- Wireless network gateway and method for providing same420US 6,249,516 B12001
- Geo-spacial Internet protocol addressing419US 6,236,652 B1Airbiquity Inc. · 2001
- Method and apparatus for controlling communication links between network nodes to reduce communication protocol overhead traffic243US 6,349,091 B1ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. · 2002
- Automatic clustering for self-organizing grids221US 8,041,773 B2The Research Foundation of State University of New York · 2011