Skype
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Skype is named on 257 US grants and 256 published applications in this corpus. Its most frequent classification is H04L (Digital communication).
- Granted patents
- 257
- Published applications
- 256
- Inventors
- 188
- Granted in 2026 so far
- 0
- Most recent grant
- 11 Aug 2020
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 30 |
| 2009 | 0 | 18 |
| 2010 | 4 | 42 |
| 2011 | 9 | 41 |
| 2012 | 32 | 43 |
| 2013 | 41 | 35 |
| 2014 | 62 | 7 |
| 2015 | 38 | 8 |
| 2016 | 32 | 6 |
| 2017 | 20 | 9 |
| 2018 | 7 | 6 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year.
Technology areas
Share of 513 documents
- H04LDigital communication304
- H04MTelephonic communication172
- H04NPictorial communication99
- G10LSpeech analysis techniques or speech synthesis95
- H04WWireless communication networks76
- G06FComputing and data processing74
- G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial32
- H04RLoudspeakers, microphones, gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers21
- G01SRadio direction-finding10
- A63FCard, board, or roulette games8
Recent patents
- Dialling phone numbers11 Aug 2020US 10,742,819 B2
- Regeneration of wideband speech19 May 2020US 10,657,984 B2
- Location information in a communications system31 Dec 2019US 10,524,091 B2
- Reducing process resources incurred by a user interface17 Dec 2019US 10,509,679 B2
- Advertisement funded telephone calls3 Dec 2019US 10,498,889 B2
Most cited
By later US patents
- User interface icon for a portion of a display screen128US D627,791 S12010 · Design
- Searching method and apparatus96US 8,108,781 B22012
- Communication system and method63US 8,798,036 B22014
- Instant messaging communication system and method54US 7,996,775 B22011
- Processing audio signals50US 8,824,693 B22014