H04L 47/10
Flow control
Official title: Flow control; Congestion control
H04L47/10 (Flow control) appears on 30,422 US grants and 33,278 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 30,422
- Published applications
- 33,278
- Assignees
- 4,123
- Inventors
- 44,094
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 5 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 124 | 0 |
| 2001 | 188 | 144 |
| 2002 | 284 | 746 |
| 2003 | 364 | 869 |
| 2004 | 449 | 902 |
| 2005 | 477 | 949 |
| 2006 | 703 | 1027 |
| 2007 | 614 | 998 |
| 2008 | 712 | 1091 |
| 2009 | 834 | 957 |
| 2010 | 1244 | 980 |
| 2011 | 1124 | 939 |
| 2012 | 999 | 1035 |
| 2013 | 1122 | 1275 |
| 2014 | 1443 | 1609 |
| 2015 | 1547 | 1996 |
| 2016 | 1719 | 1859 |
| 2017 | 1839 | 1767 |
| 2018 | 1730 | 1709 |
| 2019 | 1936 | 1697 |
| 2020 | 1964 | 1845 |
| 2021 | 1729 | 1761 |
| 2022 | 1713 | 1743 |
| 2023 | 1614 | 1549 |
| 2024 | 1417 | 1432 |
| 2025 | 1368 | 1326 |
| 2026 | 788 | 1073 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 47/24Traffic characterised by specific attributes10,817
- H04L 47/12Avoiding congestion6,845
- H04L 47/28In relation to timing considerations3,712
- H04L 47/32By discarding or delaying data units3,093
- H04L 47/20Traffic policing2,494
- H04L 47/30In combination with information about buffer occupancy at either end or at2,438
- H04L 47/11Identifying congestion2,434
- H04L 47/26Using explicit feedback to the source1,875
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- H04L 47/19At layers above the network layer1,849
- H04L 47/34Ensuring sequence integrity1,815
- H04L 47/22Traffic shaping1,744
- H04L 47/15In relation to multipoint traffic1,586
- H04L 47/25With rate being modified by the source upon detecting a change of1,325
- H04L 47/29Using a combination of thresholds1,218
- H04L 47/36By determining packet size1,149
- H04L 47/27Evaluation or update of window size1,017
- H04L 47/41By acting on aggregated flows or links747
- H04L 47/31By tagging of packets704
- H04L 47/39Credit based594
- H04L 47/38By adapting coding or compression rate574
- H04L 47/18End to end564
- H04L 47/43Assembling or disassembling of packets515
- H04L 47/17Interaction among intermediate nodes448
- H04L 47/215Using token-bucket448
- H04L 47/13In a lan segment410
- H04L 47/33Using forward notification409
- H04L 47/35By embedding flow control information in regular packets358
- H04L 47/16In connection oriented networks212
- H04L 47/21Using leaky-bucket190
- H04L 47/40Using split connections127
- H04L 47/37Slow start74
- H04L 47/23Bit dropping64
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
- Method for managing flow equalization among consumers on a common distribution network6 Oct 2026US 12,755,215 B2Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems Corp.
- Link power management protocol for connected network devices6 Oct 2026US 12,756,661 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Calculating and utilizing power metrics for connected network devices6 Oct 2026US 12,756,662 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Low overhead send/receive data delivery into user memory6 Oct 2026US 12,756,665 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Opportunistic content delivery using delta coding8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312676 A1ViaSat, Inc.
- Dynamic provisioning of devices and services8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312865 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Data Analytics for Low Latency Low Loss Scalable Throughput8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312895 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Selection of candidate data flows for evaluating performance metrics using passive measurements8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312898 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Dual software interfaces for multiplane devices to separate network management and communication traffic8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312901 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System, method, and computer program product for improving memory systems1,021US 9,432,298 B1P4Tents1, LLC · 2016
- Directory enabled policy management tool for intelligent traffic management997US 6,502,131 B1Novell, Inc. · 2002
- Method and apparatus for transmitting and displaying information between a remote network and a local computer923US 5,913,040 ABackweb Ltd. · 1999
- IP-flow classification in a wireless point to multi-point (PTMP) transmission system910US 6,452,915 B1Malibu Networks, Inc. · 2002
- Policy based quality of service891US 6,104,700 AExtreme Networks, Inc. · 2000