H04L 61/103
Across network layers
Official title: across network layers, e.g. resolution of network layer into physical layer addresses or address resolution protocol [ARP]
H04L61/103 (Across network layers) appears on 2,239 US grants and 2,484 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 2,239
- Published applications
- 2,484
- Assignees
- 683
- Inventors
- 4,500
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 9 |
| 2004 | 6 | 13 |
| 2005 | 3 | 26 |
| 2006 | 14 | 32 |
| 2007 | 11 | 57 |
| 2008 | 19 | 49 |
| 2009 | 27 | 60 |
| 2010 | 49 | 58 |
| 2011 | 47 | 63 |
| 2012 | 68 | 110 |
| 2013 | 81 | 166 |
| 2014 | 122 | 169 |
| 2015 | 126 | 194 |
| 2016 | 163 | 159 |
| 2017 | 195 | 181 |
| 2018 | 160 | 154 |
| 2019 | 174 | 189 |
| 2020 | 191 | 142 |
| 2021 | 185 | 167 |
| 2022 | 164 | 135 |
| 2023 | 147 | 115 |
| 2024 | 120 | 95 |
| 2025 | 95 | 79 |
| 2026 | 56 | 59 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- IP-based forwarding of bridged and routed IP packets and unicast ARP6 Oct 2026US 12,756,663 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Distributed network address translation for efficient cloud service access6 Oct 2026US 12,756,681 B2VMware, Inc.
- Guided testing regime generation and selection15 Sep 2026US 12,737,690 B2JMP Statistical Discovery LLC
- Distributed content distribution network15 Sep 2026US 12,739,297 B2CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Integrated terminal device and control method of integrated terminal device8 Sep 2026US 12,732,805 B2Kt Corporation
- Mac address acquisition method and apparatus, device, and storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312931 A1Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
- Parameter setting device, parameter setting method, and parameter setting program1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295830 A1Fanuc Corporation
- Synthetic test for application connectivity1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303440 A1Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Video conferencing system, and method and apparatus for automatically restoring linkage for device thereof17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280919 A1Yealink (Xiamen) Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281199 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for sharing a network connection in a virtual computer system452US 7,478,173 B1WMware, Inc. · 2009
- System and method for aggregating communications and for translating between overlapping internal network addresses and unique external network addresses321US 8,194,674 B1Quest Software, Inc. · 2012
- System and method of optimizing retrieval of network resources by identifying and substituting embedded symbolic host name references with network addresses in accordance with substitution policies316US 7,082,476 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2006
- Pseudo network adapter for frame capture, encapsulation and encryption295US 6,101,543 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 2000
- System for automatically generating and saving control information in a server if requested by a client at system initialization for operating in a network294US 5,548,729 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1996