H04L 67/1068
Discovery involving direct consultation or announcement among potential requesting and potential source
Official title: {Discovery involving direct consultation or announcement among potential requesting and potential source peers}
H04L67/1068 (Discovery involving direct consultation or announcement among potential requesting and potential source) appears on 573 US grants and 714 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 573
- Published applications
- 714
- Assignees
- 247
- Inventors
- 1,190
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 19 |
| 2003 | 1 | 31 |
| 2004 | 3 | 39 |
| 2005 | 2 | 61 |
| 2006 | 6 | 60 |
| 2007 | 14 | 42 |
| 2008 | 24 | 33 |
| 2009 | 46 | 21 |
| 2010 | 46 | 27 |
| 2011 | 31 | 34 |
| 2012 | 34 | 24 |
| 2013 | 28 | 15 |
| 2014 | 36 | 41 |
| 2015 | 33 | 36 |
| 2016 | 38 | 39 |
| 2017 | 28 | 30 |
| 2018 | 36 | 43 |
| 2019 | 41 | 26 |
| 2020 | 40 | 30 |
| 2021 | 29 | 22 |
| 2022 | 20 | 17 |
| 2023 | 13 | 5 |
| 2024 | 12 | 10 |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Remotely controlling playback devices22 Sep 2026US 12,744,955 B2Apple Inc.
- Network security systems and methods4 Aug 2026US 12,701,146 B2Intertrust Technologies Corporation
- Flexible authorization access control method, related apparatus, and system31 Mar 2026US 12,591,654 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network17 Mar 2026US 12,580,982 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Discovery and configuration of IoT devices14 Oct 2025US 12,445,523 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Network security systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312999 A1Intertrust Technologies Corporation
- Efficient data extraction from heterogeneous data centers5 Mar 2026US 2026/0067358 A1American Megatrends International, LLC
- Automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network23 Oct 2025US 2025/0330517 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Method, apparatus and system for social networking17 Jul 2025US 2025/0234167 A9Flybits, Inc.
- Systems and Methods for Implementing Autonomous Discovery of and Peer-to-Peer Connections Between Blockchain Nodes5 Jun 2025US 2025/0184392 A1Collaborative Digital Innovations LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Distributed identities378US 7,512,649 B2Sun Microsytems, Inc. · 2009
- Wireless media system-on-chip and player349US 8,463,184 B22013
- Managing distribution of content using mobile agents in peer-topeer networks314US 7,254,608 B2Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2007
- Software distribution via peer-to-peer networks296US 7,734,717 B2Nokia Corporation · 2010
- Multimedia sharing in social networks for mobile devices260US 8,046,411 B2Yahoo! Inc. · 2011