H04L 45/64
Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks: using an
Official title: using an overlay routing layer
H04L45/64 (Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks: using an) appears on 2,945 US grants and 3,266 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 2,945
- Published applications
- 3,266
- Assignees
- 513
- Inventors
- 4,828
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 4 |
| 2003 | 0 | 8 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 10 |
| 2006 | 2 | 6 |
| 2007 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 5 | 17 |
| 2009 | 10 | 23 |
| 2010 | 14 | 29 |
| 2011 | 18 | 24 |
| 2012 | 19 | 34 |
| 2013 | 31 | 90 |
| 2014 | 51 | 112 |
| 2015 | 97 | 205 |
| 2016 | 133 | 278 |
| 2017 | 215 | 270 |
| 2018 | 240 | 269 |
| 2019 | 296 | 321 |
| 2020 | 385 | 376 |
| 2021 | 347 | 348 |
| 2022 | 314 | 258 |
| 2023 | 293 | 211 |
| 2024 | 217 | 152 |
| 2025 | 162 | 138 |
| 2026 | 87 | 72 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optimized assignment of replication-multicast IP addresses to overlay-multicast groups15 Sep 2026US 12,739,189 B2VMware, Inc.
- Broadcast traffic forwarding at a stitching border network device15 Sep 2026US 12,739,191 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Efficient resource management for role-based traffic segmentation in an overlay network15 Sep 2026US 12,739,199 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Distributed content distribution network15 Sep 2026US 12,739,297 B2CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Distributed network stack using an overlay network8 Sep 2026US 12,732,396 B2Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
- Programming multicast forwarding entries in an overlay network1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303388 A1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Overlay-based oam for bgp fault detection1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303525 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Networking design for substrate in the overlay24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291909 A2Oracle International Corporation
- Concurrently supporting internet protocol version 6 (ipv6) and internet protocol version 4 (ipv4) in a cloud-managed wireless telecommunication network17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281032 A1Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
- Transmission of Packets Relating to a Processing Rule10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270200 A1Orange
Most cited
By later US patents
- Software defined network controller402US 9,450,817 B1Juniper Networks, Inc. · 2016
- Scalable high speed router apparatus342US 7,466,703 B1Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. · 2008
- Authentication for software defined networks328US 9,038,151 B1Wiretap Ventures, LLC · 2015
- System and method for a context layer switch301US 8,504,718 B2Futurewei Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- User-configured on-demand virtual layer-2 network for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) on a hybrid cloud network269US 9,154,327 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2015