H04L 49/60
Software-defined switches
H04L49/60 (Software-defined switches) appears on 1,049 US grants and 813 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 1,049
- Published applications
- 813
- Assignees
- 349
- Inventors
- 1,883
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 15 | 0 |
| 2000 | 36 | 0 |
| 2001 | 33 | 24 |
| 2002 | 41 | 67 |
| 2003 | 56 | 54 |
| 2004 | 62 | 41 |
| 2005 | 50 | 64 |
| 2006 | 80 | 59 |
| 2007 | 41 | 45 |
| 2008 | 56 | 26 |
| 2009 | 45 | 38 |
| 2010 | 69 | 22 |
| 2011 | 48 | 31 |
| 2012 | 32 | 30 |
| 2013 | 41 | 41 |
| 2014 | 46 | 38 |
| 2015 | 31 | 31 |
| 2016 | 33 | 23 |
| 2017 | 21 | 26 |
| 2018 | 28 | 14 |
| 2019 | 27 | 24 |
| 2020 | 26 | 26 |
| 2021 | 19 | 21 |
| 2022 | 21 | 10 |
| 2023 | 16 | 22 |
| 2024 | 18 | 12 |
| 2025 | 15 | 19 |
| 2026 | 5 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Access control and ownership transfer of digital content using a decentralized content fabric and ledger11 Aug 2026US 12,706,842 B2Eluvio, Inc.
- Receive processing in communications between computing device(s) and a network interface card11 Aug 2026US 12,706,866 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Supporting real number calculations in physical switches14 Jul 2026US 12,683,916 B2Orange
- Hybrid P4-based deterministic switch19 May 2026US 12,634,216 B2Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Segment routing: PCE driven dynamic setup of forwarding adjacencies and explicit path7 Apr 2026US 12,598,136 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Modifying Routing Configurations of a Network Fabric Based on Telemetry Data10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270222 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Decentralized content fabric23 Apr 2026US 2026/0113368 A1Eluvio, Inc.
- Automated virtual private network session routing2 Apr 2026US 2026/0095437 A1Fmr LLC
- Configurable Parser and a Method for Parsing Information Units26 Feb 2026US 2026/0059030 A1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Receive processing in communications between computing device(s) and a network interface card5 Feb 2026US 2026/0039608 A1International Business Machines Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for managing a network flow in a high performance network interface387US 6,650,640 B1Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2003
- Method and apparatus for dynamically shifting between routing and switching packets in a transmission network339US 5,920,705 ANokia IP Inc. · 1999
- System architecture for and method of processing packets and/or cells in a common switch317US 6,259,699 B1Nexabit Networks, Inc. · 2001
- System and method for implementing logical switches in a network system317US 7,197,572 B2QLOGIC, Corporation · 2007
- Routing device utilizing an ATM switch as a multi-channel backplane in a communication network295US 5,408,469 ASynOptics Communications, Inc. · 1995