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H04L 43/0876

Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level

Introduced: January 2022

Full Title

Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks > Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters > Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 3 subcodes exist in both systems.

IPC defines codes here since 2022.

Child Classifications

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  • H04L 43/0882 Utilisation of link capacity since 2022 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H04L 43/0888 Throughput since 2022 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H04L 43/0894 Packet rate since 2022 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class H04,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. QUALCOMM US 97,396
  2. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 96,502
  3. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 86,981
  4. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 55,869
  5. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 55,349
  6. LG ELECTRONICS KR 53,649
  7. CANON 33,341
  8. SONY CORPORATION JP 32,761
  9. ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,274
  10. GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION 28,327

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class H04,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 101,476
  2. QUALCOMM US 101,139
  3. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 96,655
  4. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 57,744
  5. LG ELECTRONICS KR 55,253
  6. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 54,181
  7. SONY CORPORATION JP 35,309
  8. ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,950
  9. INTEL CORPORATION US 27,533
  10. GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION CN 27,498