H04L 67/01
Protocols
H04L67/01 (Protocols) appears on 111,049 US grants and 129,891 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 111,049
- Published applications
- 129,891
- Assignees
- 18,554
- Inventors
- 169,903
- 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 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 10 | 0 |
| 1994 | 21 | 0 |
| 1995 | 22 | 0 |
| 1996 | 45 | 0 |
| 1997 | 43 | 0 |
| 1998 | 154 | 0 |
| 1999 | 266 | 0 |
| 2000 | 320 | 0 |
| 2001 | 403 | 365 |
| 2002 | 505 | 1974 |
| 2003 | 537 | 2194 |
| 2004 | 762 | 2177 |
| 2005 | 830 | 2450 |
| 2006 | 1339 | 2817 |
| 2007 | 1272 | 2747 |
| 2008 | 1451 | 3246 |
| 2009 | 1806 | 2906 |
| 2010 | 2469 | 3044 |
| 2011 | 2533 | 3179 |
| 2012 | 2917 | 3818 |
| 2013 | 3302 | 4574 |
| 2014 | 4461 | 6530 |
| 2015 | 5263 | 8793 |
| 2016 | 6547 | 9388 |
| 2017 | 7679 | 9902 |
| 2018 | 7926 | 8963 |
| 2019 | 9774 | 9453 |
| 2020 | 10305 | 9210 |
| 2021 | 9175 | 7994 |
| 2022 | 8274 | 7096 |
| 2023 | 7465 | 5916 |
| 2024 | 6067 | 4872 |
| 2025 | 4670 | 3918 |
| 2026 | 2413 | 2365 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 67/10In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network58,143
- H04L 67/02Based on web technology29,668
- H04L 67/12Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments27,563
- H04L 67/06Specially adapted for file transfer7,929
- H04L 67/04Specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities5,561
- H04L 67/131Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality3,993
- H04L 67/133Protocols for remote procedure calls [rpc]1,202
- H04L 67/08Specially adapted for terminal emulation822
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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
- 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
- Method and system for distributing objects over a network2,222US 6,324,568 B1Siebel Systems, Inc. · 2001