H04L 47/24
Traffic characterised by specific attributes
Official title: Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS
H04L47/24 (Traffic characterised by specific attributes) appears on 10,817 US grants and 12,213 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 10,817
- Published applications
- 12,213
- Assignees
- 2,096
- Inventors
- 19,186
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 20 | 0 |
| 2000 | 36 | 0 |
| 2001 | 48 | 65 |
| 2002 | 110 | 385 |
| 2003 | 148 | 397 |
| 2004 | 192 | 382 |
| 2005 | 226 | 397 |
| 2006 | 326 | 447 |
| 2007 | 252 | 396 |
| 2008 | 301 | 405 |
| 2009 | 320 | 321 |
| 2010 | 516 | 344 |
| 2011 | 419 | 351 |
| 2012 | 362 | 372 |
| 2013 | 400 | 401 |
| 2014 | 485 | 478 |
| 2015 | 485 | 628 |
| 2016 | 519 | 590 |
| 2017 | 560 | 534 |
| 2018 | 532 | 621 |
| 2019 | 591 | 605 |
| 2020 | 670 | 666 |
| 2021 | 632 | 708 |
| 2022 | 646 | 717 |
| 2023 | 640 | 607 |
| 2024 | 536 | 520 |
| 2025 | 525 | 494 |
| 2026 | 288 | 382 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 47/2441Relying on flow classification3,394
- H04L 47/2425For supporting services specification1,985
- H04L 47/2416Real-time traffic1,687
- H04L 47/2483Involving identification of individual flows1,423
- H04L 47/2408For supporting different services1,254
- H04L 47/2475For supporting traffic characterised by the type of applications843
- H04L 47/2458Modification of priorities while in transit517
- H04L 47/2491Mapping quality of service [qos] requirements between different networks439
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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.
- Low overhead send/receive data delivery into user memory6 Oct 2026US 12,756,665 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Flow prioritization6 Oct 2026US 12,756,669 B2Apple Inc.
- Application aware dynamic topology update6 Oct 2026US 12,757,059 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Dynamic provisioning of devices and services8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312865 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Dual software interfaces for multiplane devices to separate network management and communication traffic8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312901 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Selecting Periods of Time for Payload Transmission Based on Detected Attributes8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312907 A1Ordr Inc.
- Multi-message transmission optimization8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312908 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- A method of reporting application detection information by a user plane function, upf, in a service based architecture, sba, telecommunication network.8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312909 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
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
- System and method for providing requested quality of service in a hybrid network755US 6,335,927 B12002
- Data driven remote device control model with general programming interface-to-network messaging adapter642US 7,085,814 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2006
- Verifiable service billing for intermediate networking devices555US 8,023,425 B2Headwater Partners I LLC · 2011