- All sections
- H - Electricity
- H04L - Transmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication
- H04L 41/40 - Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
Patent holdings for IPC class H04L 41/40
Total number of patents in this class: 498
10-year publication summary
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Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
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|---|---|---|
| Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) | 27416 |
39 |
| VMware LLC | 5623 |
28 |
| Rakuten Mobile, Inc. | 909 |
26 |
| Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 52886 |
24 |
| Ericsson | 21144 |
21 |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 139001 |
20 |
| Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 106762 |
20 |
| Cisco Technology, Inc. | 19347 |
18 |
| DISH Wireless L.L.C. | 880 |
17 |
| ZTE Corporation | 41061 |
15 |
| Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation | 16332 |
12 |
| Oracle International Corporation | 12580 |
11 |
| Juniper Networks, Inc. | 3625 |
11 |
| Intel Corporation | 46126 |
10 |
| Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc. | 6947 |
10 |
| Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | 3248 |
8 |
| Jio Platforms Limited | 920 |
8 |
| Rakuten Mobile USA LLC | 558 |
8 |
| British Telecommunications Public Limited Company | 2603 |
7 |
| NTT DoCoMo, Inc. | 12286 |
7 |
| Other owners | 178 |