H04W
Wireless communication networks
Official title: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
H04W (Wireless communication networks) appears on 347,696 US grants and 441,118 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 347,696
- Published applications
- 441,118
- Assignees
- 29,111
- Inventors
- 273,563
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 16 | 0 |
| 1977 | 17 | 0 |
| 1978 | 28 | 0 |
| 1979 | 30 | 0 |
| 1980 | 26 | 0 |
| 1981 | 18 | 0 |
| 1982 | 27 | 0 |
| 1983 | 35 | 0 |
| 1984 | 32 | 0 |
| 1985 | 40 | 0 |
| 1986 | 49 | 0 |
| 1987 | 83 | 0 |
| 1988 | 94 | 0 |
| 1989 | 137 | 0 |
| 1990 | 139 | 0 |
| 1991 | 162 | 0 |
| 1992 | 246 | 0 |
| 1993 | 300 | 0 |
| 1994 | 405 | 0 |
| 1995 | 527 | 0 |
| 1996 | 780 | 0 |
| 1997 | 704 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1207 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1505 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1758 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1693 | 991 |
| 2002 | 1839 | 3792 |
| 2003 | 1930 | 4363 |
| 2004 | 2231 | 5952 |
| 2005 | 2263 | 6657 |
| 2006 | 3802 | 7300 |
| 2007 | 3500 | 8283 |
| 2008 | 3709 | 9423 |
| 2009 | 4234 | 9514 |
| 2010 | 5666 | 11161 |
| 2011 | 7333 | 11385 |
| 2012 | 9930 | 13815 |
| 2013 | 12548 | 17156 |
| 2014 | 15729 | 19512 |
| 2015 | 17530 | 22952 |
| 2016 | 19670 | 24688 |
| 2017 | 21740 | 24215 |
| 2018 | 21564 | 24287 |
| 2019 | 24637 | 26030 |
| 2020 | 25043 | 28756 |
| 2021 | 23323 | 28293 |
| 2022 | 23239 | 29786 |
| 2023 | 22809 | 29045 |
| 2024 | 23867 | 28493 |
| 2025 | 23084 | 25157 |
| 2026 | 16418 | 20112 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- H04W 4/00Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks113,053
- H04W 72/00Local resource management88,455
- H04W 76/00Connection management57,332
- H04W 88/00Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks56,905
- H04W 84/00Network topologies55,060
- H04W 12/00Security arrangements48,662
- H04W 24/00Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements43,500
- H04W 52/00Power management41,277
All 22 main groupsShow fewer
- H04W 8/00Network data management40,972
- H04W 48/00Access restriction34,996
- H04W 28/00Network traffic management34,469
- H04W 36/00Hand-off or reselection arrangements29,654
- H04W 74/00Wireless channel access24,719
- H04W 16/00Network planning24,361
- H04W 64/00Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes16,119
- H04W 56/00Synchronisation arrangements15,096
- H04W 92/00Interfaces specially adapted for wireless communication networks14,791
- H04W 40/00Communication routing or communication path finding13,146
- H04W 80/00Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation12,333
- H04W 68/00User notification8,323
- H04W 60/00Affiliation to network7,948
- H04W 99/00Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass240
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Authorized location reporting paging system2,396US 6,560,461 B12003
- Location reporting satellite paging system with optional blocking of location reporting2,183US 5,918,159 A1999
- Data communication method using mobile terminal2,157US 6,768,904 B2LG Electronics Inc. · 2004
- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- Personal communications internetworking1,899US 5,742,905 ABell Communications Research, Inc. · 1998