H04L 63/164
At the network layer
Official title: {at the network layer}
H04L63/164 (At the network layer) appears on 1,750 US grants and 2,023 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 1,750
- Published applications
- 2,023
- Assignees
- 562
- Inventors
- 3,542
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 6 |
| 2002 | 5 | 79 |
| 2003 | 7 | 68 |
| 2004 | 20 | 75 |
| 2005 | 30 | 69 |
| 2006 | 48 | 88 |
| 2007 | 54 | 88 |
| 2008 | 62 | 97 |
| 2009 | 64 | 63 |
| 2010 | 71 | 88 |
| 2011 | 80 | 73 |
| 2012 | 76 | 75 |
| 2013 | 109 | 82 |
| 2014 | 108 | 83 |
| 2015 | 97 | 83 |
| 2016 | 97 | 94 |
| 2017 | 87 | 85 |
| 2018 | 74 | 63 |
| 2019 | 65 | 125 |
| 2020 | 87 | 85 |
| 2021 | 106 | 103 |
| 2022 | 82 | 101 |
| 2023 | 95 | 100 |
| 2024 | 92 | 58 |
| 2025 | 87 | 53 |
| 2026 | 38 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Initial security activation for medium access control layer29 Sep 2026US 12,750,403 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Two person control where both parties are geographically distributed22 Sep 2026US 12,744,780 B2General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc.
- Proxy device with delay measuring capability22 Sep 2026US 12,744,828 B2Bright Data Ltd.
- Content fetching by mobile device selected based on battery charge level15 Sep 2026US 12,739,296 B2Bright Data Ltd.
- Threat mitigation system and method25 Aug 2026US 12,717,931 B2Reliaquest Holdings, LLC
- System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303681 A1Bright Data Ltd.
- Load balancing secure network traffic24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291920 A1Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Supporting remote unit reauthentication24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292492 A1Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Privacy-preserving command processing on communal electronic devices10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270248 A1Apple Inc.
- Terminal, network node apparatus, and communication method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254637 A1Ntt Docomo, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and entities using IPSec ESP to support security functionality for UDP-based traffic1,019US 8,639,936 B2Alcatel Lucent · 2014
- System for signatureless transmission and reception of data packets between computer networks543US 5,548,646 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1996
- Methods and apparatus to distribute policy information473US 7,373,660 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2008
- Methods and systems for enabling a tunnel between two computers on a network425US 6,631,416 B2Openreach Inc. · 2003
- Systems and methods for processing data flows403US 8,135,657 B2Crossbeam Systems, Inc. · 2012