H04W 28/08
Load balancing or load distribution
Official title: Load balancing or load distribution (transferring a connection for handling the traffic H04W36/22; wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12)
H04W28/08 (Load balancing or load distribution) appears on 3,014 US grants and 4,151 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 3,014
- Published applications
- 4,151
- Assignees
- 616
- Inventors
- 6,411
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04W 28/09Management thereof1,122
- H04W 28/086Among access entities985
- H04W 28/082Among bearers or channels558
- H04W 28/088Among core entities241
- H04W 28/0827Triggering entity146
- H04W 28/084Among network function virtualisation [nfv] entities99
- H04W 28/0846Between network providers68
- H04W 28/0875To or through device to device [d2d] links56
Recent patents
- Multi-beam communications using receiver assistance information6 Oct 2026US 12,756,448 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- User data system management method, communication device, and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,757,008 B2Zte Corporation
- System, method, and apparatus for providing optimized network resources6 Oct 2026US 12,757,029 B2Digital Global Systems, Inc.
- Hybrid cloud cellular network routing6 Oct 2026US 12,757,032 B2Boost SubcsriberCo L.L.C.
- Data transmission method and apparatus, device, and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,757,058 B2China Telecom Corporation Limited
- Btm-based load balancing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313459 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Methods for load balancing control of wireless connection and wireless network systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313460 A1
- Systems and methods for a pass-through edge data center (p-edc) in a wireless telecommunication network8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313461 A1Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
- Network exposure function for a service oriented network8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313470 A1
- Determining user equipment candidates for network slice management service/interactive demand-based network slice management service8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313471 A1T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Wireless load balancing across bands235US 8,320,949 B2Juniper Networks, Inc. · 2012
- Load balancing method for a wireless area network184US 7,940,731 B2Zte Corporation · 2011
- Cell load balancing method, cell load measuring method, and devices thereof180US 8,676,186 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · 2014
- Cell load balancing method and devices thereof175US 8,958,812 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · 2015
- WLAN communication device171US 8,391,262 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · 2013