INSIGHT 01Fact
45%
45% of applications are in Digital communication
515 applications in this field, 439 of them in IPC H04L (Digital transmission) — the main axis of the portfolio.
Method: Field applications ÷ applications with IPC
Company patentsSemiconductors and infrastructure software
COMPANY PATENT INTELLIGENCE
Broadcom Patent Portfolio Analysis
Explore publications from separately reviewed Avago and VMware entities across semiconductor and infrastructure software technologies.
Partial name or date coverage · counts are lower boundsData as of 2026-10-29Data scope
- Search jurisdictions
- Worldwide
- Applicant-name basis
- Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
- Source search matches
- 1,230
- Published 2025-01-01 — 2025-12-31 · Source Google Patents
- Applicant names included in these statistics
- AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID · AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD · VMWARE INC · VMWARE LLC
- Publication dates collected
- Not recorded in this snapshot
- Reviewed names not covered
- AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED · VMWARE INC.
≥1,230docs
103 per month · peak 2025-01 (207)
Empty dashed outlines are uncollected periods, not zero. Dashed bars have partial name or date coverage.
01Key figures
- Applications
- 1,140
- By application number; publication and grant count once
- Invention
- 1,112
- 98% of applications
- Utility model
- 0
- 0% of applications
- Patent families
- 826
- By the source family ID
- Green technology
- —
- The source has no CPC codes
- Concentration
- 0.41HHI
- Sum of squared field shares; higher is more concentrated
02Technology landscape
1,140 applications with IPC codes are mapped to 35 fields using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance; area is the number of applications. Select a tile to see its IPC subclasses. An application can belong to several fields.
- Electrical engineering
- Instruments
03Rhythm
Publications per month in each field; brighter cells mean more. It shows which directions surge in particular months.
This chart covers collected documents published from 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31. Examination and publication processes affect this timing; it does not directly measure R&D investment in the same period.
| Technology field | 25-01 | 25-02 | 25-03 | 25-04 | 25-05 | 25-06 | 25-07 | 25-08 | 25-09 | 25-10 | 25-11 | 25-12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital communication | 82 | 48 | 61 | 68 | 37 | 36 | 39 | 36 | 37 | 51 | 41 | 30 |
| Computer technology | 113 | 27 | 73 | 93 | 33 | 33 | 23 | 18 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 26 |
| Basic communication processes | 14 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 26 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 7 |
| Semiconductors | 14 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 4 |
| Telecommunications | 5 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
| Audio-visual technology | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 |
| Measurement | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
Filing years of the collected applications
Documents in the current publication window are deduplicated by application number and grouped by filing year. These are not the company's complete annual filings; older applications may only be published or granted within this window.
- 20051
- 20101
- 20112
- 20122
- 20131
- 20141
- 20151
- 20162
- 20176
- 20186
- 20199
- 202012
- 202150
- 2022125
- 2023423
- 2024362
- 2025136Publication lag may still apply
Invention applications are generally published about 18 months after filing, or priority where claimed, and may be published earlier. Flags are estimated as of 2026-10-29. An unflagged year is still not necessarily complete; these counts cannot establish growth or contraction in R&D.
Multi-year evolution · With a longer collection window, this becomes a yearly view that marks the fastest-growing and shrinking fields.
04Strategy profile
Four reproducible structural ratios, with the other published companies on the same scale. Entity scopes and windows can differ, so read relative positions only — this is not a ranking.
Concentration
0.410.000.94
Position 15 of 20 published companies.
Method: Sum of squared field shares
Utility model share
0%0%33%
Position 9 of 20 published companies.
Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents
Green technology share
—The source has no CPC codes, so this cannot be computed.
Method: Documents with CPC Y02 ÷ documents with CPC
Manufacturing and inspection share
2.5%0%50%
Position 11 of 20 published companies.
Method: Applications in measurement, chemical engineering, handling and machine tools ÷ all applications
05Collaboration
Organisations that filed jointly with the collected entities; line weight represents joint applications. Name-based candidates and reviewed relationships are labeled separately. Co-applications alone do not prove ownership.
BROADCOM INT PTE LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
NICIRA INC1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
OMNISSA LLC1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
VELOCLOUD NETWORKS LLC1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
VMWARE INFORMATION TECH CHINA CO LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
YU ZIBIN1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
Possible affiliation is a review lead only. Co-applicants without a review record are not automatically group members or external partners, and their independent filings are not added to these statistics.
Review the entity list06Entities and scope
Entity review and data coverage are separate facts. This list shows the current entity configuration, evidence and relationship dates, matched name by name against this snapshot.
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Showing 2 of 2 entities
Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
SubsidiaryVerifiedSome names covered
- Names collected in this snapshot
- AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID · AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD
- Names outside this snapshot
- Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
- Recorded relationship dates
- Not recorded — Not recorded
2025官方Exhibit21.1列为重要子公司；标准名LID由原始完整名称交叉核对，不作为新的法人。
Review evidenceVMware LLC
SubsidiaryVerifiedSome names covered
- Names collected in this snapshot
- VMware LLC · VMWARE INC
- Names outside this snapshot
- VMware Inc.
- Recorded relationship dates
- Not recorded — Not recorded
2025官方子公司表确认VMware LLC；2023-11-22 SEC文件确认由VMware Inc转换为LLC。
Review evidenceRelationship dates help interpret renaming, acquisitions and joint ventures. Missing dates do not establish an indefinite relationship or verify the current patent owner.
07Publication jurisdictions
8 publication offices · 1,230 documents
Counts use the publication office of each collected document, retaining publications from the same family in different jurisdictions. This is not a map of complete families, granted or active rights; WO and EP denote international and European publication routes.
- USUnited States843
- EPEuropean Patent Office publication341
- DEGermany24
- JPJapan12
- CNChina6
- WOPCT international publication2
- ESSpain1
- ILIsrael1
08Documents
40 published documentsClear filtersNewest first
- ES3052009T3
Other
2025-12-30Power efficient successive approximation analog to digital converter
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Basic communication processes
- EP4231146C0
Other
2025-12-10Collecting and processing context attributes on a host
VMware LLC
Digital communicationComputer technology
- DE602005053100C5
Other
2025-12-04Auf spätem nachhall basierte synthese von hörszenarien
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Audio-visual technologyComputer technology
- DE102018002679B4
Other
2025-11-27Sprachenergieerkennung
AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD
Audio-visual technologyComputer technology
- EP4167535C0
Other
2025-11-26Efficient architecture for high-performance dsp-based serdes
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Digital communication
- EP4262159C0
Other
2025-11-12Rule-based network identifier mapping
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Digital communication
- EP4147136C0
Other
2025-10-29Packet processing with hardware offload units
VMware LLC
Digital communicationComputer technology
- EP3910912C0
Other
2025-10-08Social network device memberships and applications
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Digital communicationIT methods for management
- EP4106280C0
Other
2025-09-10Creating virtual networks spanning multiple public clouds
VMware LLC
Digital communication
- EP4106282C0
Other
2025-09-10Systems and methods for inter-device networking using intra-device protocols
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Digital communication
- EP4268076C0
Other
2025-08-20Allocating additional bandwidth to resources in a datacenter through deployment of dedicated gateways
VMware LLC
Digital communication
- DE102010064707B4
Other
2025-08-14Lichtleiter und tragbares elektronisches Gerät
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
OpticsMeasurement
- DE102014204752B4
Other
2025-08-14Fehlertolerantes taktnetzwerk
AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD
Digital communication
- DE102025101893A1
Other
2025-07-31Drosselfilter unter Verwendung von Substratmaterialien
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Semiconductors
- EP4078932C0
Other
2025-06-25Method s and apparatus for application aware hub clustering techniques for a hyper scale sd-wan
VMware LLC
Digital communication
- EP4078933C0
Other
2025-06-25Route advertisement to support distributed gateway services architecture
VMware LLC
Digital communication
- DE102020001054B4
Other
2025-06-12Binning-basierte sende-strahlformung für drahtlose kommunikationssysteme
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Telecommunications
- EP4290336C0
Other
2025-06-11Power throttle for network switches
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
Computer technology
- DE102017012271B4
Other
2025-05-08Kurze Rückmeldungsantworten bei drahtloser Kommunikation mit Mehrfachnutzern (MU)
AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD
TelecommunicationsDigital communication
- EP3903455C0
Other
2025-05-07Dynamic inter-cloud placement of virtual network functions for a slice
VMware LLC
Digital communicationComputer technology
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09Method and sources
Counting units
Publications are deduplicated by publication number; applications by application number, so a publication and its grant count once; families by the source family ID. Technology fields are derived automatically from IPC codes using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance (March 2026), without manual or AI labeling.
Publication or grant documents do not establish current rights. Check legal status and current owners with the relevant patent office.
Entity scope
These statistics use only the applicant names and publication dates collected for this snapshot. They do not represent the full company or group portfolio.
- Search jurisdictions
- Worldwide
- Applicant-name basis
- Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
- Applicant names included in these statistics
- AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID · AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD · VMWARE INC · VMWARE LLC
- Reviewed names not covered
- AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED · VMWARE INC.
Current entity configuration and review evidence
The reviewed entities and aliases below describe the current company configuration. Only names listed above are covered by this snapshot.
Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
Configured aliases: AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID · AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD
Original review note: 2025官方Exhibit21.1列为重要子公司；标准名LID由原始完整名称交叉核对，不作为新的法人。
Review evidenceVMware LLC
Configured aliases: VMware Inc. · VMWARE INC · VMware LLC
Original review note: 2025官方子公司表确认VMware LLC；2023-11-22 SEC文件确认由VMware Inc转换为LLC。
Review evidenceData sources
- Google Patents · PartialPublished 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · retrieved 2026-10-29 · 1,230 included · 0 out of scopeSource and terms
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