H04L 67/1044
Group management mechanisms
Official title: {Group management mechanisms (management of multicast group membership H04L12/185; reconfiguring of node membership in a computing system to eliminate errors G06F11/1425)}
H04L67/1044 (Group management mechanisms) appears on 1,597 US grants and 1,847 published applications in this corpus.
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- 578
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 0 | 22 |
| 2003 | 1 | 28 |
| 2004 | 3 | 46 |
| 2005 | 3 | 51 |
| 2006 | 13 | 56 |
| 2007 | 21 | 53 |
| 2008 | 29 | 68 |
| 2009 | 45 | 71 |
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| 2011 | 56 | 50 |
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| 2013 | 50 | 67 |
| 2014 | 82 | 80 |
| 2015 | 82 | 108 |
| 2016 | 87 | 139 |
| 2017 | 109 | 101 |
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| 2019 | 111 | 123 |
| 2020 | 148 | 129 |
| 2021 | 126 | 115 |
| 2022 | 134 | 110 |
| 2023 | 119 | 82 |
| 2024 | 80 | 54 |
| 2025 | 55 | 39 |
| 2026 | 23 | 27 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Database cluster management6 Oct 2026US 12,756,753 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Remotely controlling playback devices22 Sep 2026US 12,744,955 B2Apple Inc.
- Systems and methods for personalized fog networks15 Sep 2026US 12,739,304 B1United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
- Facilitating dynamic adjustment of consensus parameters based on configuration operations in a distributed system of advanced communication networks8 Sep 2026US 12,732,557 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Service provision to IoT devices25 Aug 2026US 12,720,289 B2Intel Corporation
- P2p group trust verification mechanism1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303684 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Platform for Decentralized Management of Generative AI Services in Edge Computing Systems24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288539 A1
- Intelligent configuration of relocated servers in a data processing system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291809 A1
- Automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292022 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Distribution of query-based tasks to on-network ai models17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277696 A1Lenovo (United States) Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for internetworked wireless integrated network sensors (WINS)466US 8,140,658 B1Borgia/Cummins, LLC · 2012
- Apparatus for compact internetworked wireless integrated network sensors (WINS)408US 7,797,367 B12010
- Ad hoc network discovery menu399US 6,842,460 B1Nokia Corporation · 2005
- Distributed identities378US 7,512,649 B2Sun Microsytems, Inc. · 2009
- Location sharing and tracking using mobile phones or other wireless devices369US 7,353,034 B2X One, Inc. · 2008