Collective Communication Libraries Patents: Leaders & Trends 2026
Collective Communication Libraries Patents: Who Is Filing and Where the Gaps Sit
Concentrated but not locked up. the top 5 assignees account for 34.1% of all 138 records in scope, and the top 10 combined reach 55.8% — leaving a long tail of single- and few-filing entrants. Filings moved from zero in 2017 to a documented 2021→2024 rise of 12 to 17 records (+42%), with 2025 reaching 28 records as the peak year on record; 2026 shows 7 records so far but is still an incomplete, filling-in year under the usual publication lag.
- 1INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION12
- 2UNIFABRIX LTD10
- 3INNOVIUM INC9
- 4HUAWEI TECH CO LTD9
- 5CAMBRICON (XIAN) SEMICON CO LTD7
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- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions about this landscape
Who holds the most patents in collective communication libraries?
The leading assignee in this dataset holds 12 of the 138 records, with the fifth-ranked assignee at 7 and the tenth-ranked at 5. The top 5 assignees together account for 34.1% of all 138 records, and the top 10 combined reach 55.8%, which means close to half the field is held by companies and institutions outside the most visible leaders. A full ranking of 47 companies is available for anyone doing a competitive sweep rather than relying on the top names alone.
Is patent filing in this area still growing?
Yes, based on the complete years available: filings rose from 12 records in 2021 to 17 in 2024, a documented +42% increase over that span, and 2025 recorded 28 records, the highest year in the dataset. Because publication typically lags filing by around eighteen months, 2025 and especially the partial 2026 count should be read as still filling in rather than as a sign of a slowdown. The safest read is that growth accelerated into 2025 rather than plateaued.
What technology areas do these patents actually cover?
The dataset is dominated by software and scheduling claims rather than physical interconnect hardware: G06F (electric digital data processing) appears in 64.5% of the 138 records and H04L (digital information transmission) in 37.0%. G06N, covering AI-model computing, appears in 26.8% of records, indicating a growing share of filings frame collective communication specifically around AI training workloads. Smaller shares touch image processing, coding conversion and memory architectures, but these are minor branches by comparison.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Collective Communication Libraries covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.