H04L 45/126
Minimising geographical or physical path length
Official title: {minimising geographical or physical path length}
H04L45/126 (Minimising geographical or physical path length) appears on 213 US grants and 228 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 228
- Assignees
- 120
- Inventors
- 473
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 3 | 6 |
| 2010 | 5 | 9 |
| 2011 | 2 | 8 |
| 2012 | 5 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 | 9 |
| 2014 | 10 | 16 |
| 2015 | 8 | 14 |
| 2016 | 10 | 12 |
| 2017 | 14 | 10 |
| 2018 | 12 | 12 |
| 2019 | 16 | 17 |
| 2020 | 29 | 16 |
| 2021 | 16 | 11 |
| 2022 | 16 | 12 |
| 2023 | 15 | 29 |
| 2024 | 17 | 4 |
| 2025 | 14 | 16 |
| 2026 | 14 | 6 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Dynamic expansion and contraction of edge clusters6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230420 A1Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Regression detection using indicators from dependent services30 Apr 2026US 2026/0121967 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Routing messages based on message priority5 Feb 2026US 2026/0039585 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Method and System for Forming a Device Network29 Jan 2026US 2026/0032784 A1Ledvance GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for authentication and identity management of communicating devices130US 9,967,173 B2AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P. · 2018
- Geolocation routing and simulation of network conditions120US 9,660,895 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Configuring routing in mesh networks115US 8,050,256 B1Tilera Corporation · 2011
- Method system and apparatus for providing pay-per-use distributed computing resources92US 7,596,784 B2Symantec Operating Corporation · 2009
- Redundancy for inter-AS L2VPN service with optimal forwarding87US 9,118,572 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2015