Edge and Cloud Network Orchestration

Managing and optimizing network resources and services deployed at the edge of the network or within cloud environments, including distributed domain name resolution, resource exposure analysis, and traffic management specific to distributed architectures.

8,037 US filings from 791 companies since 2023 · 2023: 2,148 · 2024: 2,621 · 2025: 2,309 · 2026 YTD: 959

Routing, Switching & QoS

Top companies

Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.

#	Company	Since 2023	2023	2024	2025	2026 YTD	YoY
1	Cisco Technology, Inc.	653	184	197	207	65	+5.1%
2	Oracle International Corporation	348	67	122	109	50	-10.7%
3	VMware, Inc.	327	198	113	13	3	-88.5%
4	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	319	99	107	85	28	-20.6%
5	INTEL CORPORATION	292	89	98	85	20	-13.3%
6	Amazon Technologies, Inc.	280	81	90	79	30	-12.2%
7	International Business Machines Corporation	232	52	81	71	28	-12.3%
8	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)	228	54	80	70	24	-12.5%
9	DELL PRODUCTS L.P.	223	25	66	84	48	+27.3%
10	VMware LLC	223	·	93	113	17	+21.5%
11	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	183	45	64	50	24	-21.9%
12	AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.	178	47	52	52	27	0.0%
13	Juniper Networks, Inc.	169	52	57	54	6	-5.3%
14	DISH Wireless L.L.C.	164	45	36	69	14	+91.7%
15	Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.	123	45	47	24	7	-48.9%
16	SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.	121	45	35	33	8	-5.7%
17	Level 3 Communications, LLC	112	53	36	18	5	-50.0%
18	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP	109	27	34	23	25	-32.4%
19	Red Hat, Inc.	92	26	32	20	14	-37.5%
20	Apple Inc.	69	17	23	22	7	-4.3%
21	Palo Alto Networks, Inc.	68	9	11	25	23	+127.3%
22	CLOUDFLARE, INC.	65	26	22	17	·	-22.7%
23	Aviatrix Systems, Inc.	61	13	21	21	6	0.0%
24	GOOGLE LLC	61	16	21	17	7	-19.0%
25	T-Mobile USA, Inc.	56	20	16	11	9	-31.2%