H04L 47/20
Traffic policing
H04L47/20 (Traffic policing) appears on 2,494 US grants and 2,753 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 2,494
- Published applications
- 2,753
- Assignees
- 636
- Inventors
- 4,770
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 13 | 18 |
| 2002 | 18 | 75 |
| 2003 | 24 | 86 |
| 2004 | 34 | 73 |
| 2005 | 51 | 86 |
| 2006 | 68 | 94 |
| 2007 | 50 | 79 |
| 2008 | 57 | 83 |
| 2009 | 78 | 98 |
| 2010 | 120 | 93 |
| 2011 | 96 | 78 |
| 2012 | 96 | 114 |
| 2013 | 92 | 102 |
| 2014 | 129 | 88 |
| 2015 | 108 | 143 |
| 2016 | 103 | 164 |
| 2017 | 117 | 133 |
| 2018 | 116 | 131 |
| 2019 | 158 | 155 |
| 2020 | 185 | 150 |
| 2021 | 151 | 145 |
| 2022 | 149 | 180 |
| 2023 | 136 | 109 |
| 2024 | 163 | 118 |
| 2025 | 120 | 109 |
| 2026 | 49 | 49 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Cloud security distributed architecture6 Oct 2026US 12,756,745 B2Netskope, Inc.
- Controller for coordinating flow separation of intra-VPC or inter-VPC communications29 Sep 2026US 12,750,338 B1Aviatrix Systems, Inc.
- Data packet transmission method and related devices15 Sep 2026US 12,739,207 B2Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
- Policing network traffic on interfaces across multiple processing elements8 Sep 2026US 12,732,465 B2Arista Networks, Inc.
- Framework to resolve protocol endpoints in integration platform8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313034 A1Sap SE
- Methods and apparatus for network management24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291872 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Operating optical networks10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270596 A1British Telecommunications Public Ltd.Co.
- Network service plan design20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246816 A1Headwater Research LLC
- QoS Measurement13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239078 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Directory enabled policy management tool for intelligent traffic management997US 6,502,131 B1Novell, Inc. · 2002
- Policy based quality of service891US 6,104,700 AExtreme Networks, Inc. · 2000
- Verifiable service billing for intermediate networking devices555US 8,023,425 B2Headwater Partners I LLC · 2011
- Systems and methods for processing packets410US 7,215,637 B1Juniper Networks, Inc. · 2007
- Method and apparatus of storing policies for policy-based management of quality of service treatments of network data traffic flows398US 6,463,470 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2002