H04L 67/50
Network services
H04L67/50 (Network services) appears on 66,648 US grants and 78,722 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 66,648
- Published applications
- 78,722
- Assignees
- 11,609
- Inventors
- 108,472
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 10 | 0 |
| 1996 | 19 | 0 |
| 1997 | 32 | 0 |
| 1998 | 87 | 0 |
| 1999 | 152 | 0 |
| 2000 | 200 | 0 |
| 2001 | 288 | 293 |
| 2002 | 352 | 1533 |
| 2003 | 348 | 1568 |
| 2004 | 510 | 1541 |
| 2005 | 547 | 1665 |
| 2006 | 900 | 1964 |
| 2007 | 840 | 2088 |
| 2008 | 978 | 2493 |
| 2009 | 1119 | 2185 |
| 2010 | 1648 | 2250 |
| 2011 | 1812 | 2072 |
| 2012 | 2104 | 2480 |
| 2013 | 2280 | 2914 |
| 2014 | 3014 | 4168 |
| 2015 | 3316 | 4758 |
| 2016 | 3869 | 5361 |
| 2017 | 4461 | 5686 |
| 2018 | 4480 | 5212 |
| 2019 | 5607 | 5220 |
| 2020 | 5990 | 5246 |
| 2021 | 5339 | 4493 |
| 2022 | 4700 | 4066 |
| 2023 | 4242 | 3460 |
| 2024 | 3533 | 2685 |
| 2025 | 2604 | 2068 |
| 2026 | 1248 | 1253 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 67/56Provisioning of proxy services23,249
- H04L 67/535Tracking the activity of the user12,951
- H04L 67/60Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests12,601
- H04L 67/52Specially adapted for the location of the user terminal11,234
- H04L 67/51Discovery or management thereof8,882
- H04L 67/55Push-based network services6,457
- H04L 67/53Using third party service providers4,074
- H04L 67/75Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display3,100
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Recent patents
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- Distributed network address translation for efficient cloud service access6 Oct 2026US 12,756,681 B2VMware, Inc.
- Systems and methods for discovering automatable tasks8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310420 A1Soroco Private Limited
- Methods and systems for enabling flexible query processing in network-based communication protocols8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310661 A1Apaluma LLC
- System and method for url fetching retry mechanism8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310740 A1Bright Data Ltd.
- Control tower for prospective transactions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311153 A1Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
- Opportunistic content delivery using delta coding8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312676 A1ViaSat, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Collaboration system for producing copies of image generated by first program on first computer on other computers and annotating the image by second program2,212US 5,819,038 ANCR Corporation · 1998
- Method, device and computer program product for identifying visitors of websites2,147US 7,620,655 B2Enecto AB · 2009