H04W 40/20
Based on geographic position or location
Official title: based on geographic position or location
H04W40/20 (Based on geographic position or location) appears on 1,351 US grants and 1,588 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 1,351
- Published applications
- 1,588
- Assignees
- 503
- Inventors
- 2,763
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 2 |
| 2002 | 3 | 15 |
| 2003 | 0 | 10 |
| 2004 | 5 | 25 |
| 2005 | 11 | 13 |
| 2006 | 10 | 16 |
| 2007 | 10 | 33 |
| 2008 | 15 | 25 |
| 2009 | 12 | 52 |
| 2010 | 26 | 39 |
| 2011 | 29 | 42 |
| 2012 | 32 | 38 |
| 2013 | 53 | 70 |
| 2014 | 84 | 106 |
| 2015 | 90 | 100 |
| 2016 | 93 | 91 |
| 2017 | 101 | 103 |
| 2018 | 90 | 94 |
| 2019 | 103 | 103 |
| 2020 | 110 | 130 |
| 2021 | 103 | 93 |
| 2022 | 91 | 82 |
| 2023 | 78 | 116 |
| 2024 | 58 | 81 |
| 2025 | 92 | 68 |
| 2026 | 38 | 41 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Using multiple geofences to initiate recording devices29 Sep 2026US 12,750,636 B2Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- Application function relocation procedure29 Sep 2026US 12,750,760 B2Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Orbit-aware routing29 Sep 2026US 12,750,761 B2SRI International
- Multibeam non-geosynchronous satellite communication without on-board waveform processing22 Sep 2026US 12,745,103 B2Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Partitioned wireless communication system with redundant data links and power lines8 Sep 2026US 12,732,230 B2Aptiv Technologies AG
- Method and apparatus for reporting pdu session information8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313527 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Traffic steering optimization17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281867 A1Gogo Business Aviation LLC
- Method and system for assisting wireless access points with satellite control plane10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270841 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Access function (af) providing user equipment (ue) route selection policy (ursp) rules for roamers13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239160 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Support for vplmn ursp rules13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239161 A1InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Communications network having adaptive network link optimization using wireless terrain awareness and method for use therein635US 6,115,580 AMotorola, Inc. · 2000
- Methods and systems for a mobile, broadband, routable internet582US 8,060,017 B2Powerwave Cognition, Inc. · 2011
- Geo-spacial Internet protocol addressing419US 6,236,652 B1Airbiquity Inc. · 2001
- Architecture for mobile radio networks with dynamically changing topology using virtual subnets392US 5,652,751 AHazeltine Corporation · 1997
- System and method for providing resource sharing, synchronizing, media coordination, transcoding, and traffic management in a vehicular environment380US 9,083,581 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2015