H04L 9/088
Usage controlling of secret information
Official title: {Usage controlling of secret information, e.g. techniques for restricting cryptographic keys to pre-authorized uses, different access levels, validity of crypto-period, different key- or password length, or different strong and weak cryptographic algorithms (network architectures or network communication protocols for using time-dependent keys in a packet data network H04L63/068)}
H04L9/088 (Usage controlling of secret information) appears on 2,600 US grants and 3,049 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 1,092
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 268 | 204 |
| 2026 | 184 | 176 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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