H04W 28/02
Traffic management
Official title: Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
H04W28/02 (Traffic management) appears on 25,543 US grants and 32,920 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 25,543
- Published applications
- 32,920
- Assignees
- 2,795
- Inventors
- 28,929
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 8 | 0 |
| 1993 | 11 | 0 |
| 1994 | 13 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 18 | 0 |
| 1997 | 28 | 0 |
| 1998 | 41 | 0 |
| 1999 | 52 | 0 |
| 2000 | 68 | 0 |
| 2001 | 50 | 62 |
| 2002 | 90 | 285 |
| 2003 | 115 | 437 |
| 2004 | 141 | 487 |
| 2005 | 169 | 525 |
| 2006 | 253 | 556 |
| 2007 | 270 | 630 |
| 2008 | 298 | 634 |
| 2009 | 351 | 648 |
| 2010 | 530 | 715 |
| 2011 | 582 | 781 |
| 2012 | 641 | 1074 |
| 2013 | 838 | 1221 |
| 2014 | 1280 | 1480 |
| 2015 | 1493 | 1724 |
| 2016 | 1440 | 1611 |
| 2017 | 1472 | 1526 |
| 2018 | 1449 | 1734 |
| 2019 | 1673 | 1819 |
| 2020 | 1814 | 2261 |
| 2021 | 1757 | 2166 |
| 2022 | 1861 | 2268 |
| 2023 | 1839 | 2251 |
| 2024 | 1821 | 2266 |
| 2025 | 1771 | 2080 |
| 2026 | 1279 | 1679 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04W 28/06Optimizing the usage of the radio link6,704
- H04W 28/10Flow control between communication endpoints3,840
- H04W 28/0268Using specific qos parameters for wireless networks3,469
- H04W 28/08Load balancing or load distribution3,014
- H04W 28/04Error control2,939
- H04W 28/0231Based on communication conditions2,503
- H04W 28/0278Using buffer status reports1,720
- H04W 28/0252Per individual bearer or channel1,692
All 17 subgroupsShow fewer
- H04W 28/0215Based on user or device properties1,611
- H04W 28/0289Congestion control1,172
- H04W 28/0284Detecting congestion or overload during communication960
- H04W 28/0205At the air interface792
- H04W 28/0247Based on conditions of the access network or the infrastructure network754
- H04W 28/0226Based on location or mobility727
- H04W 28/0273Adapting protocols for flow control or congestion control to wireless environment482
- H04W 28/021In wireless networks with changing topologies427
- H04W 28/0294Forcing collision32
Recent patents
- Multi-beam communications using receiver assistance information6 Oct 2026US 12,756,448 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Congestion control for sidelink communication based on non-sidelink activity detection6 Oct 2026US 12,756,485 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Techniques for cross-link interference measurement prioritization6 Oct 2026US 12,756,526 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- PCF determining method, apparatus, and system6 Oct 2026US 12,757,007 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- User data system management method, communication device, and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,757,008 B2Zte Corporation
- Systems and methods for enhanced bit interleaving schemes8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312717 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- A method of reporting application detection information by a user plane function, upf, in a service based architecture, sba, telecommunication network.8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312909 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Automated relationship management of service layer entities in a communications network8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313030 A1Ipla Holdings Inc.
- Scalalable Drone Swarm Networking with Unified 5G and Wi-Fi8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313386 A1Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Systems and methods for granular quality of service maintainability analytics reporting in a wireless network8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313400 A1Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for scheduling presentation of digital content on a personal communication device1,212US 6,834,195 B22004
- Location of a mobile station using a plurality of commercial wireless infrastructures1,007US 6,236,365 B1TracBeam LLC · 2001
- System and method for communicating selected information to an electronic device959US 7,187,947 B1Affinity Labs, LLC · 2007
- IP-flow classification in a wireless point to multi-point (PTMP) transmission system910US 6,452,915 B1Malibu Networks, Inc. · 2002
- Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones789US 5,726,984 ANorand Corporation · 1998