H04L 69/16
Implementation or adaptation of internet protocol [ip], of transmission control protocol [tcp]
Official title: Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
H04L69/16 (Implementation or adaptation of internet protocol [ip], of transmission control protocol [tcp]) appears on 7,925 US grants and 8,489 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 7,925
- Published applications
- 8,489
- Assignees
- 1,990
- Inventors
- 13,715
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 32 | 0 |
| 1999 | 53 | 0 |
| 2000 | 70 | 0 |
| 2001 | 106 | 102 |
| 2002 | 127 | 333 |
| 2003 | 122 | 394 |
| 2004 | 203 | 431 |
| 2005 | 192 | 454 |
| 2006 | 274 | 428 |
| 2007 | 249 | 337 |
| 2008 | 312 | 351 |
| 2009 | 330 | 255 |
| 2010 | 389 | 257 |
| 2011 | 358 | 271 |
| 2012 | 278 | 242 |
| 2013 | 285 | 253 |
| 2014 | 343 | 327 |
| 2015 | 327 | 431 |
| 2016 | 386 | 504 |
| 2017 | 391 | 444 |
| 2018 | 414 | 414 |
| 2019 | 473 | 415 |
| 2020 | 491 | 458 |
| 2021 | 382 | 346 |
| 2022 | 424 | 308 |
| 2023 | 329 | 245 |
| 2024 | 252 | 204 |
| 2025 | 210 | 172 |
| 2026 | 108 | 113 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 69/161Implementation details of tcp/ip or udp/ip stack architecture2,564
- H04L 69/163In-band adaptation of tcp data exchange1,794
- H04L 69/166Ip fragmentation671
- H04L 69/164Adaptation or special uses of udp protocol667
- H04L 69/167Adaptation for transition between two ip versions539
- H04L 69/165Combined use of tcp and udp protocols489
- H04L 69/168Specially adapted for link layer protocols482
- H04L 69/169Special adaptations of tcp, udp or ip for interworking of ip based330
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- Emulation of Unix Pipes in Windows Systems1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300057 A1Zscaler, Inc.
- Special purpose network addresses for measurements in a data center fabric1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303500 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303681 A1Bright Data Ltd.
- Topology aware communications at the collective transport layer1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303687 A1Clockwork Systems, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- World-wide-web server with delayed resource-binding for resource-based load balancing on a distributed resource multi-node network1,664US 5,774,660 AResonate Inc. · 1998
- Method and system for disaggregating audio/visual components1,585US 7,295,548 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2007
- Networked personal contact manager1,124US 6,269,369 B1Amazon.Com Holdings, Inc. · 2001
- Method and apparatus for transparently directing requests for web objects to proxy caches941US 6,389,462 B1Lucent Technologies Inc. · 2002
- IP-flow classification in a wireless point to multi-point (PTMP) transmission system910US 6,452,915 B1Malibu Networks, Inc. · 2002