G06F 16/437
Administration of user profiles
Official title: {Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution}
G06F16/437 (Administration of user profiles) appears on 575 US grants and 800 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Audiovisual information management system435US 6,236,395 B1Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. · 2001
- Seamlessly switching among unicast, multicast, and broadcast mobile media content270US 8,219,134 B2Quickplay Media Inc. · 2012
- Filtering relevant event notifications in a file sharing and collaboration environment268US 9,208,153 B1Symantec Corporation · 2015
- Automatic meta-data sharing of existing media through social networking151US 7,685,132 B2MOG, Inc · 2010
- Profile data management151US 8,972,400 B1ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. · 2015