H04W 8/005
Discovery of network devices
Official title: {Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals}
H04W8/005 (Discovery of network devices) appears on 8,457 US grants and 10,610 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 10,610
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- 1,670
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- 13,124
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 12 |
| 2002 | 8 | 40 |
| 2003 | 6 | 52 |
| 2004 | 11 | 62 |
| 2005 | 21 | 77 |
| 2006 | 27 | 86 |
| 2007 | 41 | 146 |
| 2008 | 41 | 237 |
| 2009 | 51 | 159 |
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| 2012 | 179 | 244 |
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| 2014 | 296 | 545 |
| 2015 | 388 | 746 |
| 2016 | 545 | 1078 |
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| 2018 | 931 | 976 |
| 2019 | 1016 | 796 |
| 2020 | 903 | 786 |
| 2021 | 642 | 544 |
| 2022 | 526 | 535 |
| 2023 | 492 | 544 |
| 2024 | 430 | 460 |
| 2025 | 394 | 425 |
| 2026 | 243 | 318 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Data collection device having dynamic access to multiple wireless networks489US 8,881,987 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014
- System and method for reliable store-and-forward data handling by encoded information reading terminals489US 8,971,346 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2015
- Patient-worn wireless physiological sensor with pairing functionality488US 10,721,785 B2Masimo Corporation · 2020
- Method and system for employing a first device to direct a networked audio device to obtain a media item437US 8,028,323 B2Dryden Enterprises, LLC · 2011
- Ad hoc network discovery menu399US 6,842,460 B1Nokia Corporation · 2005