H04L 69/12
Protocol engines
H04L69/12 (Protocol engines) appears on 1,060 US grants and 1,082 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 1,060
- Published applications
- 1,082
- Assignees
- 434
- Inventors
- 2,215
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
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| 2009 | 78 | 43 |
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| 2024 | 15 | 13 |
| 2025 | 20 | 9 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Quick user datagram protocol (UDP) internet connections (QUIC) packet offloading30 Jun 2026US 12,671,752 B2Intel Corporation
- System and method for neutral application programming interface23 Jun 2026US 12,665,888 B2UMBRA Technologies Ltd. (UK)
- Technologies for allocating resources across data centers23 Dec 2025US 12,506,817 B2Intel Corporation
- Parsing component, packet parsing method, forwarding chip, and network device2 Dec 2025US 12,489,833 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Universal ethernet solution28 Oct 2025US 12,455,845 B2
- System and method for neutral application programming interface8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313020 A1UMBRA Technologies Ltd.
- Apparatus and method for processing data units4 Jun 2026US 2026/0154214 A1
- Quick user datagram protocol (udp) internet connections (quic) packet offloading30 Apr 2026US 2026/0122151 A1Intel Corporation
- Configurable Parser and a Method for Parsing Information Units26 Feb 2026US 2026/0059030 A1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Technologies for managing a flexible host interface of a network interface controller4 Dec 2025US 2025/0373712 A1Intel Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Packet processing system including a policy engine having a classification unit624US 6,157,955 AIntel Corporation · 2000
- Rule based IP data processing453US 6,598,034 B1Infineon Technologies North America Corp. · 2003
- Runtime adaptable search processor413US 7,685,254 B22010
- System and method for providing transformation of multi-protocol packets in a data stream404US 6,944,168 B2SLT Logic LLC · 2005
- Intelligent network interface system method for protocol processing398US 6,226,680 B1Alacritech, Inc. · 2001