H04L 69/00
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not
Official title: Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass (networks security protocols H04L9/40; wireless communication networks H04W)
H04L69/00 (Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not) appears on 47,509 US grants and 51,593 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 47,509
- Published applications
- 51,593
- Assignees
- 8,404
- Inventors
- 76,274
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 9 | 0 |
| 1986 | 6 | 0 |
| 1987 | 16 | 0 |
| 1988 | 19 | 0 |
| 1989 | 21 | 0 |
| 1990 | 30 | 0 |
| 1991 | 41 | 0 |
| 1992 | 40 | 0 |
| 1993 | 50 | 0 |
| 1994 | 73 | 0 |
| 1995 | 85 | 0 |
| 1996 | 168 | 0 |
| 1997 | 186 | 0 |
| 1998 | 407 | 0 |
| 1999 | 515 | 0 |
| 2000 | 588 | 0 |
| 2001 | 745 | 545 |
| 2002 | 840 | 2851 |
| 2003 | 897 | 3154 |
| 2004 | 1181 | 2987 |
| 2005 | 1156 | 2633 |
| 2006 | 1609 | 2101 |
| 2007 | 1555 | 1769 |
| 2008 | 1729 | 1775 |
| 2009 | 1739 | 1592 |
| 2010 | 2026 | 1673 |
| 2011 | 1891 | 1458 |
| 2012 | 1773 | 1530 |
| 2013 | 1773 | 1699 |
| 2014 | 2084 | 1990 |
| 2015 | 1993 | 2218 |
| 2016 | 2167 | 2564 |
| 2017 | 2292 | 2538 |
| 2018 | 2337 | 2400 |
| 2019 | 2632 | 2421 |
| 2020 | 2714 | 2538 |
| 2021 | 2333 | 2095 |
| 2022 | 2249 | 1968 |
| 2023 | 1901 | 1571 |
| 2024 | 1630 | 1439 |
| 2025 | 1324 | 1200 |
| 2026 | 672 | 884 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 69/30Definitions, standards or architectural aspects of layered protocol stacks17,694
- H04L 69/22Parsing or analysis of headers9,639
- H04L 69/16Implementation or adaptation of internet protocol [ip], of transmission control protocol [tcp]7,925
- H04L 69/40Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not5,094
- H04L 69/18Multiprotocol handlers3,617
- H04L 69/14Multichannel or multilink protocols2,853
- H04L 69/04Protocols for data compression2,798
- H04L 69/24Negotiation of communication capabilities2,545
All 16 subgroupsShow fewer
- H04L 69/08Protocols for interworking2,493
- H04L 69/28Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols2,417
- H04L 69/12Protocol engines1,060
- H04L 69/03Protocol definition or specification514
- H04L 69/26Special purpose or proprietary protocols or architectures457
- H04L 69/02Protocol performance275
- H04L 69/10Streamlined, light-weight or high-speed protocols203
- H04L 69/06Notations for structuring of protocol data197
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- Hardware architecture for efficient inline ipsec in hybrid platform8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312941 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
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