H04L 69/166
Ip fragmentation
Official title: IP fragmentation; TCP segmentation
H04L69/166 (Ip fragmentation) appears on 671 US grants and 703 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 671
- Published applications
- 703
- Assignees
- 265
- Inventors
- 1,294
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 14 |
| 2002 | 16 | 25 |
| 2003 | 18 | 42 |
| 2004 | 19 | 60 |
| 2005 | 24 | 57 |
| 2006 | 22 | 40 |
| 2007 | 26 | 34 |
| 2008 | 32 | 24 |
| 2009 | 44 | 26 |
| 2010 | 42 | 24 |
| 2011 | 44 | 19 |
| 2012 | 27 | 16 |
| 2013 | 26 | 21 |
| 2014 | 29 | 22 |
| 2015 | 20 | 37 |
| 2016 | 40 | 35 |
| 2017 | 24 | 25 |
| 2018 | 19 | 23 |
| 2019 | 37 | 29 |
| 2020 | 37 | 32 |
| 2021 | 16 | 30 |
| 2022 | 35 | 29 |
| 2023 | 28 | 13 |
| 2024 | 16 | 9 |
| 2025 | 15 | 11 |
| 2026 | 2 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- End-to-end transactional microsegmentation11 Aug 2026US 12,706,991 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- System and method to reduce packet error rates for larger fragments through payload normalization28 Jul 2026US 12,696,245 B2Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Communication method and apparatus30 Dec 2025US 12,513,570 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Method and system for time sensitive processing of TCP segments into application layer messages23 Dec 2025US 12,506,818 B2Tata Consultancy Services Limited
- Underlay-based TCP segmentation offload in overlay networks16 Dec 2025US 12,500,839 B2VMware, Inc.
- System and Method to Reduce Packet Error Rates for Larger Fragments through Payload Normalization1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304396 A1Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Improved security establishment methods and systems19 Feb 2026US 2026/0052012 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Improved security establishment methods and systems19 Feb 2026US 2026/0052138 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Outer coding techniques in wireless communications12 Feb 2026US 2026/0046096 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Improved security establishment methods and systems29 Jan 2026US 2026/0032007 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for transparently directing requests for web objects to proxy caches941US 6,389,462 B1Lucent Technologies Inc. · 2002
- Intelligent network interface system method for protocol processing398US 6,226,680 B1Alacritech, Inc. · 2001
- TCP/IP offload network interface device370US 6,434,620 B1Alacritech, Inc. · 2002
- Passing a communication control block from host to a local device such that a message is processed on the device330US 6,247,060 B1Alacritech, Inc. · 2001
- Data link layer quality of service for UMTS323US 6,477,670 B1Nortel Networks Limited · 2002