H04W 84/18
Self-organising networks
Official title: Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
H04W84/18 (Self-organising networks) appears on 15,670 US grants and 19,169 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Providing secure positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) using a networked constellation of satellites6 Oct 2026US 12,754,324 B2Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for bluetooth low energy advertising6 Oct 2026US 12,757,003 B2Microchip Technology Incorporated
- Ad-hoc wireless communication6 Oct 2026US 12,757,175 B2NewSouth Innovations Pty Limited
- Method for performing airtime fairness control of mesh network, and associated apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,757,246 B2Mediatek Inc.
- Body area network with transmit-only devices29 Sep 2026US 12,745,906 B2Robert Bosch GmbH
- Drone system with distributed basing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308932 A1MatrixSpace, Inc.
- Systems and methods for motion detection using sensing transmission clusters8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309859 A1Cognitive Systems Corp.
- Automated relationship management of service layer entities in a communications network8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313030 A1Ipla Holdings Inc.
- Wireless tag reader for advanced healthcare article tracking system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313318 A1Peritas AI Inc.
- Aircraft Cabin Communications and Sensor System8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313335 A1Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- Apparatus and method for coordinated music playback in wireless ad-hoc networks1,891US 6,757,517 B22004
- Multifunctional world wide walkie talkie, a tri-frequency cellular-satellite wireless instant messenger computer and network for establishing global wireless volp quality of service (qos) communications, unified messaging, and video conferencing via the internet1,246US 6,763,226 B1Computer Science Central, Inc. · 2004
- System and method for monitoring and controlling residential devices1,180US 6,891,838 B1StatSignal IPC, LLC · 2005
- Method for collecting and processing data using internetworked wireless integrated network sensors (WINS)1,054US 7,020,701 B1Sensoria Corporation · 2006