H04L 69/168
Specially adapted for link layer protocols
Official title: specially adapted for link layer protocols, e.g. asynchronous transfer mode [ATM], synchronous optical network [SONET] or point-to-point protocol [PPP]
H04L69/168 (Specially adapted for link layer protocols) appears on 482 US grants and 462 published applications in this corpus.
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