H04L 49/111
Switch interfaces
Official title: Switch interfaces, e.g. port details
H04L49/111 (Switch interfaces) appears on 286 US grants and 328 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 286
- Published applications
- 328
- Assignees
- 132
- Inventors
- 656
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 9 | 30 |
| 2026 | 11 | 43 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Communication chip and data switching apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,719,787 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Techniques of handling overlay encapsulation11 Aug 2026US 12,706,861 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Using physical and virtual functions associated with a NIC to access an external storage through network fabric driver4 Aug 2026US 12,699,671 B2VMware, Inc.
- Branding and configuring devices deployed in a communication network of a vehicle26 May 2026US 12,640,957 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Links for planarized devices10 Mar 2026US 12,572,490 B2Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Scalability in multi-tier network fabrics1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303547 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Virtual Partition Lifecycle Management with Collective Operation Resource Allocation in a UALink Network27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252405 A1UnifabriX Ltd.
- Switch-Offloaded Block Collective Operations with Autonomous Memory Access in a UALink Network27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252419 A1UnifabriX Ltd.
- Collective Operation Resilience for Chiplet-Based UALink Networks27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252512 A1UnifabriX Ltd.
- Compressed Transaction Layer Encoding for Collective Operations in UALink Networks27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252517 A1UnifabriX Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for managing, configuring, and controlling an I/O virtualization device through a network switch342US 8,265,075 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2012
- Method and apparatus for high-speed parsing of network messages174US 6,892,237 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2005
- Non-blocking packet switching network with dynamic routing codes having incoming packets diverted and temporarily stored in processor inputs when network ouput is not available166US 5,613,069 A1997
- Network switch with head of line input buffer queue clearing127US 6,510,138 B1Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation · 2003
- Systems and methods for implementing virtual switch planes in a physical switch fabric122US 7,397,794 B1Juniper Networks, Inc. · 2008