H04L 45/566
Routing instructions carried by the data packet
Official title: {Routing instructions carried by the data packet, e.g. active networks}
H04L45/566 (Routing instructions carried by the data packet) appears on 635 US grants and 754 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 754
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2003 | 4 | 26 |
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| 2020 | 25 | 27 |
| 2021 | 27 | 45 |
| 2022 | 34 | 102 |
| 2023 | 64 | 118 |
| 2024 | 116 | 103 |
| 2025 | 103 | 75 |
| 2026 | 57 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for facilitating dynamic command management in a network interface controller (NIC)6 Oct 2026US 12,754,857 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- System and method for validating origin information of a data item22 Sep 2026US 12,744,758 B2Bank of America Corporation
- Traffic filtering based on destination address and incoming interface of a network device15 Sep 2026US 12,739,196 B1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Utilizing network routing to communicate covert message15 Sep 2026US 12,739,197 B2Code-X Delaware, Inc.
- Servicing both virtualized and non-virtualized customer premises equipment in a unified platform15 Sep 2026US 12,739,223 B1Harmonic, Inc.
- Adaptive routing with endpoint feedback17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281030 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Application-Agnostic Puncturing of Network Address Translation (NAT) Services17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281077 A1LiveU Ltd.
- Multicast Traffic Over Static MPLS Pseudowire Tunnels3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261511 A1Arista Networks, Inc.
- Packet network path tracking through ipv6 extension header27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254615 A1Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc.
- Network device and routing method with equal-cost multi-path routing dynamic adjustment mechanism13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238585 A1Realtek Singapore Private Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Intelligent demand driven recognition of URL objects in connection oriented transactions340US 7,228,350 B2Avaya Technology Corp. · 2007
- Request routing utilizing popularity information228US 8,756,341 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Network flow switching and flow data export222US 6,243,667 B1Cisco Systems, Inc. · 2001
- Direct memory access execution engine with indirect addressing of circular queues in addition to direct memory addressing182US 6,463,059 B1Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2002
- Request routing using a popularity identifier at a DNS nameserver161US 9,191,458 B2Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2015