H04L 51/52
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols
Official title: for supporting social networking services
H04L51/52 (User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols) appears on 7,276 US grants and 9,165 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2003 | 1 | 2 |
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| 2005 | 1 | 20 |
| 2006 | 4 | 11 |
| 2007 | 6 | 31 |
| 2008 | 6 | 63 |
| 2009 | 12 | 80 |
| 2010 | 20 | 80 |
| 2011 | 48 | 227 |
| 2012 | 64 | 289 |
| 2013 | 138 | 449 |
| 2014 | 263 | 753 |
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| 2019 | 864 | 693 |
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| 2021 | 695 | 570 |
| 2022 | 579 | 508 |
| 2023 | 521 | 454 |
| 2024 | 448 | 372 |
| 2025 | 315 | 267 |
| 2026 | 130 | 145 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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