H04L 49/15
Interconnection of switching modules
H04L49/15 (Interconnection of switching modules) appears on 2,822 US grants and 2,233 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 2,822
- Published applications
- 2,233
- Assignees
- 637
- Inventors
- 4,095
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 40 | 12 |
| 2002 | 41 | 79 |
| 2003 | 47 | 64 |
| 2004 | 52 | 49 |
| 2005 | 48 | 72 |
| 2006 | 102 | 76 |
| 2007 | 51 | 65 |
| 2008 | 59 | 51 |
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| 2010 | 77 | 62 |
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| 2021 | 145 | 97 |
| 2022 | 109 | 121 |
| 2023 | 92 | 67 |
| 2024 | 104 | 81 |
| 2025 | 75 | 56 |
| 2026 | 37 | 36 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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
- L1 replicator and switch combination using optical fabric29 Sep 2026US 12,750,328 B2Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.
- Network switch for interconnecting computing devices22 Sep 2026US 12,744,745 B1Auradine, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for holistic rendering of cloud network configuration8 Sep 2026US 12,732,430 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Layer-2 networking span port in a virtualized cloud environment25 Aug 2026US 12,719,786 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Network fabric integration1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303546 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Scalability in multi-tier network fabrics1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303547 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Network switch for interconnecting computing devices24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291881 A1Auradine, Inc.
- Device and method with multi-stage electrical interconnection network3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261526 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Out-of-band ethernet interface switching apparatus, multi-node server system and server device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254778 A1Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Using virtual networking devices to connect managed computer networks448US 7,991,859 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2011
- Using virtual networking devices to connect managed computer networks390US 8,312,129 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Packet-switched self-routing multistage interconnection network having contention-free fanout, low-loss routing, and fanin buffering to efficiently realize arbitrarily low packet loss365US 5,541,914 A1996
- Authentication for software defined networks328US 9,038,151 B1Wiretap Ventures, LLC · 2015
- Intra-switch communications in narrow band ATM networks314US 5,428,607 AAT&T Corp. · 1995