H04L 45/586
Of virtual routers
Official title: of virtual routers
H04L45/586 (Of virtual routers) appears on 1,972 US grants and 2,035 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 1,972
- Published applications
- 2,035
- Assignees
- 389
- Inventors
- 3,221
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 4 |
| 2002 | 3 | 15 |
| 2003 | 8 | 26 |
| 2004 | 7 | 29 |
| 2005 | 18 | 31 |
| 2006 | 14 | 34 |
| 2007 | 32 | 32 |
| 2008 | 33 | 32 |
| 2009 | 39 | 40 |
| 2010 | 40 | 45 |
| 2011 | 48 | 79 |
| 2012 | 34 | 68 |
| 2013 | 71 | 101 |
| 2014 | 85 | 68 |
| 2015 | 115 | 124 |
| 2016 | 107 | 155 |
| 2017 | 117 | 136 |
| 2018 | 150 | 125 |
| 2019 | 152 | 118 |
| 2020 | 166 | 155 |
| 2021 | 144 | 157 |
| 2022 | 160 | 162 |
| 2023 | 158 | 108 |
| 2024 | 116 | 81 |
| 2025 | 87 | 71 |
| 2026 | 59 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Hybrid cloud cellular network routing6 Oct 2026US 12,757,032 B2Boost SubcsriberCo L.L.C.
- BGP peering status-aware hitless reboot29 Sep 2026US 12,750,305 B2Arista Networks, Inc.
- Cost-aware provisioning and routing in a multi-cloud environment15 Sep 2026US 12,739,188 B2Arrcus Inc.
- System and method for supporting VRF-based traffic isolation across a network with dynamic provisioning15 Sep 2026US 12,739,198 B2Arista Networks, Inc.
- Virtual router function sharding for scalable multi-tenant routing1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303524 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Secure Virtual Private Mobile and IP Network in Cloud24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291865 A1Telnyx LLC
- Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Support, Including Private VLAN (PVLAN) Support In Association With Media Access Control (MAC) Based VLAN Assignment17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281031 A1Arista Networks, Inc.
- Method and Apparatus for Maintaining a Resilient VPN Connection17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281082 A1Netflow, UAB
- Enterprise slicing leveraging same upf instance10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270196 A1Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Using virtual networking devices and routing information to initiate external actions765US 8,224,971 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Standby router protocol631US 5,473,599 ACisco Systems, Inc. · 1995
- Distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services528US 7,818,452 B2Fortinet, Inc. · 2010
- Methods and apparatus for routing between virtual resources based on a routing location policy510US 8,054,832 B1Juniper Networks, Inc. · 2011
- Fully distributed routing over a user-configured on-demand virtual network for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) on hybrid cloud networks458US 8,660,129 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2014