H04W 40/02
Communication route or path selection
Official title: Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
H04W40/02 (Communication route or path selection) appears on 8,265 US grants and 10,533 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 8,265
- Published applications
- 10,533
- Assignees
- 1,861
- Inventors
- 13,603
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 6 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 21 | 0 |
| 2001 | 20 | 19 |
| 2002 | 34 | 127 |
| 2003 | 24 | 128 |
| 2004 | 68 | 283 |
| 2005 | 76 | 245 |
| 2006 | 143 | 225 |
| 2007 | 120 | 236 |
| 2008 | 140 | 247 |
| 2009 | 149 | 279 |
| 2010 | 223 | 275 |
| 2011 | 271 | 261 |
| 2012 | 256 | 278 |
| 2013 | 263 | 337 |
| 2014 | 384 | 461 |
| 2015 | 440 | 577 |
| 2016 | 455 | 575 |
| 2017 | 526 | 527 |
| 2018 | 519 | 579 |
| 2019 | 615 | 515 |
| 2020 | 572 | 645 |
| 2021 | 536 | 644 |
| 2022 | 508 | 662 |
| 2023 | 510 | 726 |
| 2024 | 453 | 700 |
| 2025 | 545 | 584 |
| 2026 | 339 | 398 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04W 40/12Based on transmission quality or channel quality2,075
- H04W 40/22Using selective relaying for reaching a bts [base transceiver station] or an1,970
- H04W 40/04Based on wireless node resources1,402
- H04W 40/20Based on geographic position or location1,351
- H04W 40/18Based on predicted events268
- H04W 40/023Limited or focused flooding to selected areas of a network133
- H04W 40/026Route selection considering the moving speed of individual devices111
Recent patents
- Clustered coherent distributed spatial multiplexing in wireless communication networks6 Oct 2026US 12,756,424 B2TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for configuring a route selection policy6 Oct 2026US 12,756,654 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Hybrid cloud cellular network routing6 Oct 2026US 12,757,032 B2Boost SubcsriberCo L.L.C.
- Application aware dynamic topology update6 Oct 2026US 12,757,059 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Relay user equipment handover method and apparatus, and device and readable storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,757,088 B2Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
- Personal iot network (pin) service rule generation method, and apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313026 A1Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
- Cellular connection information synchronization for network communication device reachability8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313512 A1Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Mobile application triggered network slice management8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313513 A1Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
- Relay apparatus, control method, and storage medium storing program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313514 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Ursp rule update method and apparatus based on network slice re-mapping in wireless communication system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313515 A1LG Electronics Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones789US 5,726,984 ANorand Corporation · 1998
- Communications network having adaptive network link optimization using wireless terrain awareness and method for use therein635US 6,115,580 AMotorola, Inc. · 2000
- Routing method for Ad-Hoc mobile networks614US 5,987,011 AKing's College · 1999
- Methods and systems for a mobile, broadband, routable internet582US 8,060,017 B2Powerwave Cognition, Inc. · 2011
- Encoded information reading terminal with wireless path selection capability551US 8,584,945 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2013