H04W 36/00
Hand-off or reselection arrangements
H04W36/00 (Hand-off or reselection arrangements) appears on 29,654 US grants and 38,434 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 29,654
- Published applications
- 38,434
- Assignees
- 2,440
- Inventors
- 27,959
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 9 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 10 | 0 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 |
| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
| 1992 | 25 | 0 |
| 1993 | 39 | 0 |
| 1994 | 43 | 0 |
| 1995 | 57 | 0 |
| 1996 | 82 | 0 |
| 1997 | 76 | 0 |
| 1998 | 112 | 0 |
| 1999 | 173 | 0 |
| 2000 | 188 | 0 |
| 2001 | 200 | 85 |
| 2002 | 193 | 331 |
| 2003 | 224 | 376 |
| 2004 | 231 | 604 |
| 2005 | 235 | 646 |
| 2006 | 391 | 763 |
| 2007 | 367 | 823 |
| 2008 | 332 | 899 |
| 2009 | 397 | 964 |
| 2010 | 521 | 1233 |
| 2011 | 669 | 1216 |
| 2012 | 994 | 1332 |
| 2013 | 1273 | 1675 |
| 2014 | 1619 | 1943 |
| 2015 | 1711 | 2264 |
| 2016 | 1985 | 2093 |
| 2017 | 1926 | 1758 |
| 2018 | 1841 | 1743 |
| 2019 | 1801 | 1882 |
| 2020 | 1790 | 2183 |
| 2021 | 1781 | 2105 |
| 2022 | 1762 | 2337 |
| 2023 | 1625 | 2512 |
| 2024 | 1753 | 2506 |
| 2025 | 1773 | 2211 |
| 2026 | 1411 | 1950 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04W 36/0005Control or signalling for completing the hand-off19,073
- H04W 36/24Reselection being triggered by specific parameters7,965
- H04W 36/08Reselecting an access point5,222
- H04W 36/16Performing reselection for specific purposes4,977
- H04W 36/14Reselecting a network or an air interface4,349
- H04W 36/34Reselection control2,668
- H04W 36/06Reselecting a communication resource in the serving access point1,587
- H04W 36/04Reselecting a cell layer in multi-layered cells1,366
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- H04W 36/02Buffering or recovering information during reselection1,340
- H04W 36/12Reselecting a serving backbone network switching or routing node1,241
- H04W 36/03Reselecting a link using a direct mode connection571
- H04W 36/10Reselecting an access point controller305
- H04W 36/13Cell handover without a predetermined boundary305
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for providing a soft handoff in communications in a CDMA cellular telephone system852US 5,101,501 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1992
- Mobile station assisted soft handoff in a CDMA cellular communications system765US 5,267,261 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1993
- CDMA microcellular telephone system and distributed antenna system therefor661US 5,280,472 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1994
- Backhaul link for distributed antenna system604US 9,113,347 B2AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P. · 2015
- Roaming encoded information reading terminal542US 8,611,309 B22013