- 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: 657
10-year publication summary
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145
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Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Jio Platforms Limited | 1356 |
71 |
| Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) | 27825 |
48 |
| Rakuten Mobile, Inc. | 1007 |
30 |
| VMware LLC | 6910 |
30 |
| Ericsson | 21622 |
26 |
| Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 53545 |
26 |
| Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 111237 |
25 |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 144426 |
23 |
| Cisco Technology, Inc. | 19655 |
21 |
| DISH Wireless L.L.C. | 1050 |
20 |
| ZTE Corporation | 42052 |
16 |
| Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation | 17207 |
13 |
| Intel Corporation | 46751 |
12 |
| Oracle International Corporation | 12907 |
12 |
| Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc. | 7070 |
11 |
| Juniper Networks, Inc. | 3703 |
11 |
| NTT DoCoMo, Inc. | 12798 |
9 |
| British Telecommunications Public Limited Company | 2611 |
8 |
| Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | 2956 |
8 |
| Rakuten Mobile USA LLC | 591 |
8 |
| Other owners | 229 |