H04L 49/102
Using shared medium
Official title: using shared medium, e.g. bus or ring
H04L49/102 (Using shared medium) appears on 304 US grants and 238 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 238
- Assignees
- 144
- Inventors
- 535
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2004 | 24 | 10 |
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| 2006 | 28 | 21 |
| 2007 | 9 | 6 |
| 2008 | 15 | 7 |
| 2009 | 13 | 7 |
| 2010 | 15 | 4 |
| 2011 | 10 | 9 |
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| 2023 | 13 | 5 |
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| 2025 | 8 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for sending packets between trunk ports of network switches278US 6,104,696 ABroadcom Corporation · 2000
- Apparatus and method for optimizing access to memory211US 6,735,679 B1Broadcom Corporation · 2004
- Low-loss, fair bandwidth allocation flow control in a packet switch191US 5,983,278 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1999
- Network switching architecture with fast filtering processor182US 6,335,935 B12002
- Architecture for an expandable transaction-based switching bus179US 5,796,732 ACisco Technology, Inc. · 1998