H04L 49/356
For storage area networks
Official title: for storage area networks
H04L49/356 (For storage area networks) appears on 1,486 US grants and 1,419 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 1,486
- Published applications
- 1,419
- Assignees
- 279
- Inventors
- 2,024
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 6 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 10 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 12 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 13 | 2 |
| 2002 | 9 | 53 |
| 2003 | 12 | 68 |
| 2004 | 22 | 53 |
| 2005 | 24 | 78 |
| 2006 | 48 | 64 |
| 2007 | 39 | 51 |
| 2008 | 54 | 35 |
| 2009 | 76 | 55 |
| 2010 | 83 | 37 |
| 2011 | 68 | 49 |
| 2012 | 58 | 80 |
| 2013 | 53 | 100 |
| 2014 | 117 | 80 |
| 2015 | 95 | 75 |
| 2016 | 92 | 38 |
| 2017 | 65 | 91 |
| 2018 | 68 | 107 |
| 2019 | 95 | 82 |
| 2020 | 122 | 75 |
| 2021 | 61 | 54 |
| 2022 | 58 | 31 |
| 2023 | 42 | 16 |
| 2024 | 24 | 18 |
| 2025 | 20 | 16 |
| 2026 | 7 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Fault response models for data replication spanning different methodologies25 Aug 2026US 12,719,817 B2Everpure, Inc.
- Maintaining consistent metadata across different storage systems9 Jun 2026US 12,652,334 B2Rebate Assets, LLC
- Local device identifiers in a storage network31 Mar 2026US 12,592,983 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Local port grouping with rails of network links24 Mar 2026US 12,587,415 B2Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- System and method for using InfiniBand routing algorithms for ethernet fabrics in a high performance computing environment3 Mar 2026US 12,568,016 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Command to obtain bandwidth data for selected network devices27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254771 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Command to obtain fabric identifier data of one or more network devices27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254779 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Computing system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243984 A1Shanghai Xizhi Technology Co., Ltd.
- Chip, module, device, and system for optical interconnection6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227585 A1Shanghai Xizhi Technolgy Co., Ltd.
- Computing system30 Jul 2026US 2026/0222083 A1Shanghai Xizhi Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Architecture for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment668US 8,601,473 B1Nutanix, Inc. · 2013
- Switching system480US 6,985,956 B2Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2006
- Failover processing in a storage system410US 7,039,827 B2Network Appliance, Inc. · 2006
- 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
- User to network interface protocol for packet communications networks352US 4,922,486 AAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company · 1990