H04W 40/023
Limited or focused flooding to selected areas of a network
Official title: {Limited or focused flooding to selected areas of a network}
H04W40/023 (Limited or focused flooding to selected areas of a network) appears on 133 US grants and 186 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 133
- Published applications
- 186
- Assignees
- 65
- Inventors
- 260
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 7 |
| 2011 | 2 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 | 11 |
| 2013 | 1 | 9 |
| 2014 | 8 | 8 |
| 2015 | 16 | 16 |
| 2016 | 12 | 14 |
| 2017 | 9 | 18 |
| 2018 | 4 | 14 |
| 2019 | 10 | 17 |
| 2020 | 8 | 18 |
| 2021 | 15 | 13 |
| 2022 | 13 | 14 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 |
| 2026 | 5 | 2 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Multicast flow optimizations in a multi-level backhaul mesh of a wireless network11 Aug 2026US 12,707,326 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Shared CU UP address management4 Aug 2026US 12,701,490 B2Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Repeater creation for battery powered and low power devices21 Jul 2026US 12,689,966 B2ABL IP Holding LLC
- Communication apparatus, communication method, and multi-hop relay system5 May 2026US 12,621,747 B2Sonas, Inc.
- Directional router communication and tracking6 Jan 2026US 12,520,223 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Multipath transmission in wireless networks27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254751 A1City University of Hong Kong
- Directional Router Communication and Tracking26 Mar 2026US 2026/0089604 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Message flooding prevention in 5g wireless network27 Mar 2025US 2025/0106731 A1Dish Wireless L. L. C.
- Facilitation of local disaster mobile edge computing resiliency for 5g or other next generation network27 Feb 2025US 2025/0071532 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Repeater creation for battery powered and low power devices7 Nov 2024US 2024/0373316 A1ABL IP Holding LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for on demand multicast and unicast using controlled flood multicast communications205US 7,184,421 B1ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. · 2007
- System and method for mobile ad hoc network134US 7,525,933 B1AT&T Intellectual Property II, L. P. · 2009
- Multicast group assignment using probabilistic approximations56US 9,071,533 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2015
- Route optimization for on-demand routing protocols for mesh networks46US 7,995,501 B2Firetide, Inc. · 2011
- Efficient message distribution for directed acyclic graphs31US 8,595,359 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2013