H04L 67/50 Network services
Full Title
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications (user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00) > Network services
Filing statistics
CPC H04L 67/50 belongs to the parent subclass H04L, which recorded 1,567,994 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 97,627 in 2013 to 139,810 in 2023 (+43%), peaking at 168,964 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class H04 are HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY (101,476 applications), QUALCOMM (101,139 applications) and SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (96,655 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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Child Classifications
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- H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
- H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
- H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
- H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
- H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
- H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services (store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54)
- H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources (admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70)
- H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class H04, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 101,476
- QUALCOMM US 101,139
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 96,655
- TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 57,744
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 55,253
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 54,181
- SONY CORPORATION JP 35,309
- ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,950
- INTEL CORPORATION US 27,533
- GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION CN 27,498