H04L 69/26
Special purpose or proprietary protocols or architectures
Official title: {Special purpose or proprietary protocols or architectures (network applications for proprietary or special purpose networking environments H04L67/12)}
H04L69/26 (Special purpose or proprietary protocols or architectures) appears on 457 US grants and 450 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 457
- Published applications
- 450
- Assignees
- 223
- Inventors
- 944
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 6 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 9 | 0 |
| 2000 | 11 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 0 |
| 2002 | 10 | 11 |
| 2003 | 6 | 12 |
| 2004 | 7 | 8 |
| 2005 | 7 | 6 |
| 2006 | 9 | 10 |
| 2007 | 3 | 11 |
| 2008 | 10 | 27 |
| 2009 | 11 | 23 |
| 2010 | 8 | 40 |
| 2011 | 19 | 21 |
| 2012 | 16 | 9 |
| 2013 | 20 | 12 |
| 2014 | 29 | 18 |
| 2015 | 23 | 9 |
| 2016 | 21 | 18 |
| 2017 | 15 | 25 |
| 2018 | 17 | 19 |
| 2019 | 31 | 36 |
| 2020 | 31 | 24 |
| 2021 | 21 | 22 |
| 2022 | 29 | 35 |
| 2023 | 27 | 19 |
| 2024 | 21 | 17 |
| 2025 | 9 | 4 |
| 2026 | 10 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Data storage system controlled remote data mirroring with respectively maintained data indices1,377US 5,544,347 AEMC Corporation · 1996
- Remote data mirroring1,035US 5,742,792 AEMC Corporation · 1998
- Asynchronous remote data mirroring system444US 6,502,205 B1EMC Corporation · 2002
- Method and apparatus for linking an SNA host to a remote SNA host over a packet switched communications network325US 5,021,949 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1991
- Remote data mirroring319US 6,173,377 B2EMC Corporation · 2001