H04W 80/08
Upper layer protocols
Official title: Upper layer protocols {(network arrangements or communication protocols for networked applications H04L67/00)}
H04W80/08 (Upper layer protocols) appears on 2,727 US grants and 3,196 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 2,727
- Published applications
- 3,196
- Assignees
- 522
- Inventors
- 4,151
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 4 | 29 |
| 2003 | 4 | 35 |
| 2004 | 10 | 42 |
| 2005 | 24 | 77 |
| 2006 | 24 | 99 |
| 2007 | 33 | 108 |
| 2008 | 25 | 97 |
| 2009 | 44 | 80 |
| 2010 | 59 | 109 |
| 2011 | 86 | 65 |
| 2012 | 88 | 63 |
| 2013 | 83 | 53 |
| 2014 | 89 | 72 |
| 2015 | 83 | 70 |
| 2016 | 83 | 80 |
| 2017 | 75 | 83 |
| 2018 | 83 | 91 |
| 2019 | 86 | 375 |
| 2020 | 241 | 574 |
| 2021 | 385 | 278 |
| 2022 | 376 | 245 |
| 2023 | 287 | 220 |
| 2024 | 219 | 140 |
| 2025 | 165 | 72 |
| 2026 | 67 | 37 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Framework for ML-based analytics and optimizations for radio access networks6 Oct 2026US 12,757,037 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Methods and systems for performing paging operations in a 5G network29 Sep 2026US 12,750,765 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Method and nodes for handling connectivity to a data network22 Sep 2026US 12,745,067 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Method for user plane connection activation or deactivation per session22 Sep 2026US 12,745,323 B2NEC Corporation
- User equipment (UE) including first single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI), second S-NSSAI, first protocol data unit (PDU) session of session and service continuity (SSC) mode 2, and second PDU session15 Sep 2026US 12,739,922 B2Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method for providing nfc data exchange format messages8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312623 A1Silicon Craft Technology Co., Ltd.
- Service operations for application programming interfaces (apis)8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313014 A1Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- Method and apparatus for accelerating data processing in next-generation wireless communication system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292487 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Channel state information (csi) acquisition for dynamic mimo transmission17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280654 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (ims) slicing in wireless communication networks17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281934 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for wireless voice channel/data channel integration478US 7,092,370 B2Roamware, Inc. · 2006
- Method and apparatus for providing mobile and other intermittent connectivity in a computing environment383US 6,546,425 B1Netmotion Wireless, Inc. · 2003
- System and method for WAP server management using a single console359US 7,170,864 B2BMC Software, Inc. · 2007
- Audio-video communication system for receiving person at entrance356US 8,154,581 B2Revolutionary Concepts, Inc. · 2012
- Consumer configurable mobile communication web filtering solution355US 7,516,219 B2Ventraq Corporation · 2009