H04L 67/00
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
Official title: Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications (user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00)
H04L67/00 (Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications) appears on 158,217 US grants and 186,794 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 158,217
- Published applications
- 186,794
- Assignees
- 23,768
- Inventors
- 226,920
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 13 | 0 |
| 1994 | 28 | 0 |
| 1995 | 34 | 0 |
| 1996 | 60 | 0 |
| 1997 | 82 | 0 |
| 1998 | 227 | 0 |
| 1999 | 404 | 0 |
| 2000 | 478 | 0 |
| 2001 | 651 | 553 |
| 2002 | 752 | 2976 |
| 2003 | 820 | 3285 |
| 2004 | 1096 | 3283 |
| 2005 | 1201 | 3732 |
| 2006 | 1968 | 4285 |
| 2007 | 1894 | 4371 |
| 2008 | 2167 | 5248 |
| 2009 | 2629 | 4649 |
| 2010 | 3676 | 4872 |
| 2011 | 3904 | 4858 |
| 2012 | 4655 | 5849 |
| 2013 | 5184 | 7079 |
| 2014 | 6915 | 9742 |
| 2015 | 7865 | 12175 |
| 2016 | 9468 | 13239 |
| 2017 | 10904 | 13885 |
| 2018 | 11144 | 12708 |
| 2019 | 13617 | 12755 |
| 2020 | 14218 | 12499 |
| 2021 | 12443 | 10885 |
| 2022 | 11115 | 9584 |
| 2023 | 10132 | 8363 |
| 2024 | 8501 | 6863 |
| 2025 | 6465 | 5570 |
| 2026 | 3476 | 3486 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method and system for implementing a medical service system6 Oct 2026US 12,751,620 B2OnMed LLC
- Fluid measuring reservoir for breast pumps6 Oct 2026US 12,754,055 B2Willow Innovations, Inc.
- AR/VR interface for client/contractor communication platform6 Oct 2026US 12,754,650 B2Strukshur Inc.
- Layer-partitioned virtual world system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,653 B2TMRW Group IP
- Room touchscreen terminal6 Oct 2026US 12,754,658 B2Rauland-Borg Corporation
- Real-time driving data insight system and method with edge computing and artificial intelligence tools8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307657 A1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Method for automatically configuring control units of a control system and control system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307659 A1
- Internet of things (iot) system for the control of smart gas pressure regulation station8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310247 A1Chengdu Qinchuan Iot Technology Co., Ltd.
- Smart switch with functionalities determined based on a grounded conductor connection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310248 A1Roku, Inc.
- Systems and methods for discovering automatable tasks8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310420 A1Soroco Private Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for allowing all remote computers to perform annotation on an image and replicating the annotated image on the respective displays of other comuters2,385US 5,608,872 ANCR Corporation · 1997
- System and method for record and playback of collaborative Web browsing session2,365US 6,535,909 B1Contigo Software LLC · 2003
- Method and apparatus for determining behavioral profile of a computer user2,336US 5,848,396 AFreedom of Information, Inc. · 1998
- System for allowing user of any computer to draw image over that generated by the host computer and replicating the drawn image to other computers2,300US 5,649,104 ANCR Corporation · 1997
- Remote collaboration system including first program means translating user inputs into annotations and running on all computers while second program means runs on one computer2,250US 5,761,419 ANCR Corporation · 1998