G06F 16/40
Information retrieval: of multimedia data
Official title: of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data (retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70)
G06F16/40 (Information retrieval: of multimedia data) appears on 11,999 US grants and 15,098 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 11,999
- Published applications
- 15,098
- Assignees
- 3,100
- Inventors
- 23,493
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2025 | 513 | 466 |
| 2026 | 266 | 343 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for streaming session data management6 Oct 2026US 12,754,850 B2DISH Network Technologies India Private Limited
- Method for editing and processing multimedia material, electronic device and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,754,949 B2Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Using an asset bucket for correlating assets6 Oct 2026US 12,754,950 B2Getac Technology Corporation
- Media content search based on metadata6 Oct 2026US 12,754,951 B2Sonos, Inc.
- Systems and methods of sensor data fusion6 Oct 2026US 12,754,977 B2Digital Global Systems, Inc.
- Automatic digital model security classification using artificial intelligence8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310713 A1The Aerospace Corporation
- Autonomous Visual Information Seeking with Machine-learned Language Models8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310717 A1Google Inc.
- Interactive Timeline Visualization of Multimedia Metadata for Enhanced Content Analysis and Exploration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310718 A1Clipto, Inc.
- Systems and methods for providing a contextual menu with information related to an emergency alert8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313205 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Contextual search on multimedia content1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300303 A1Google Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Local-remote apparatus with specialized image storage modules1,600US 5,321,816 AUnisys Corporation · 1994
- Computer based records management system method1,575US 5,813,009 AUniVirtual Corp. · 1998
- System and method for delivery of video data over a computer network1,423US 5,956,716 AIntervu, Inc. · 1999
- Method and system for synchronization of content rendering1,201US 7,391,791 B2Implicit Networks, Inc. · 2008
- Method and system synchronization of content rendering1,176US 8,942,252 B2Implicit, LLC · 2015