H04L 49/70
Virtual switches
Official title: {Virtual switches}
H04L49/70 (Virtual switches) appears on 1,988 US grants and 2,145 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 1,988
- Published applications
- 2,145
- Assignees
- 321
- Inventors
- 2,945
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 | 7 |
| 2006 | 3 | 6 |
| 2007 | 6 | 13 |
| 2008 | 7 | 25 |
| 2009 | 10 | 14 |
| 2010 | 21 | 38 |
| 2011 | 31 | 70 |
| 2012 | 40 | 65 |
| 2013 | 50 | 165 |
| 2014 | 112 | 133 |
| 2015 | 144 | 184 |
| 2016 | 174 | 172 |
| 2017 | 162 | 210 |
| 2018 | 165 | 194 |
| 2019 | 221 | 167 |
| 2020 | 202 | 166 |
| 2021 | 154 | 145 |
| 2022 | 161 | 115 |
| 2023 | 139 | 84 |
| 2024 | 89 | 67 |
| 2025 | 67 | 56 |
| 2026 | 26 | 44 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Logical top-of-rack (TOR) switches22 Sep 2026US 12,744,748 B1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Updating a distributed unit in a 5G virtual radio access network15 Sep 2026US 12,739,664 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Methods and apparatus to process data packets for logical and virtual switch acceleration in memory25 Aug 2026US 12,717,600 B2Intel Corporation
- Layer-2 networking span port in a virtualized cloud environment25 Aug 2026US 12,719,786 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Layer-2 networking information in a virtualized cloud environment11 Aug 2026US 12,706,840 B2Oracle International Corporation
- System and method for infrastructure consumption3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261529 A1Ovh
- 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
- Distributed virtual system to support managed, network-based services528US 7,818,452 B2Fortinet, Inc. · 2010
- Methods and apparatus for routing between virtual resources based on a routing location policy510US 8,054,832 B1Juniper Networks, Inc. · 2011
- Network consolidation for virtualized servers508US 8,027,354 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2011
- Dynamic virtual port provisioning496US 9,535,737 B2BladeLogic, Inc. · 2017
- Fully distributed routing over a user-configured on-demand virtual network for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) on hybrid cloud networks458US 8,660,129 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2014