H04L 45/245
Link aggregation
Official title: {Link aggregation, e.g. trunking}
H04L45/245 (Link aggregation) appears on 1,476 US grants and 1,534 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 1,476
- Published applications
- 1,534
- Assignees
- 334
- Inventors
- 2,635
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 6 |
| 2002 | 10 | 31 |
| 2003 | 20 | 22 |
| 2004 | 18 | 20 |
| 2005 | 23 | 19 |
| 2006 | 28 | 36 |
| 2007 | 10 | 36 |
| 2008 | 17 | 47 |
| 2009 | 30 | 36 |
| 2010 | 58 | 33 |
| 2011 | 51 | 58 |
| 2012 | 42 | 68 |
| 2013 | 55 | 77 |
| 2014 | 79 | 113 |
| 2015 | 94 | 121 |
| 2016 | 121 | 110 |
| 2017 | 115 | 101 |
| 2018 | 100 | 74 |
| 2019 | 112 | 94 |
| 2020 | 99 | 94 |
| 2021 | 82 | 87 |
| 2022 | 91 | 61 |
| 2023 | 65 | 52 |
| 2024 | 53 | 51 |
| 2025 | 50 | 45 |
| 2026 | 36 | 42 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Intelligent network interface system method for protocol processing398US 6,226,680 B1Alacritech, Inc. · 2001
- Passing a communication control block from host to a local device such that a message is processed on the device330US 6,247,060 B1Alacritech, Inc. · 2001
- Fast-path apparatus for receiving data corresponding to a TCP connection288US 6,591,302 B2Alacritech, Inc. · 2003
- Method for sending packets between trunk ports of network switches278US 6,104,696 ABroadcom Corporation · 2000
- Method for weighted load-balancing among network interfaces251US 7,898,959 B1Marvell Israel (M. I. S. L.) Ltd. · 2011