G06F 16/48
Retrieval characterised by using metadata
Official title: Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
G06F16/48 (Retrieval characterised by using metadata) appears on 4,048 US grants and 5,148 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Media content search based on metadata6 Oct 2026US 12,754,951 B2Sonos, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus to determine sources of media presentations22 Sep 2026US 12,743,462 B2The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Processing folder extracting and summarizing content15 Sep 2026US 12,737,321 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- Dynamic acoustic signature system with sensor fusion for illegal logging in rainforest8 Sep 2026US 12,730,837 B2Hitachi Vantara, Ltd.
- Methods and systems for generating interactive composite media assets comprising common objects8 Sep 2026US 12,730,838 B2EmergeX, LLC
- Audio-augmented image search for sub-location identification24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288865 A1Snap Inc.
- Method for retrieving 3d content using multi-embedding and apparatus using the same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289905 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- System and method for implementing computer-simulated reality interactions between users and publications with content creation pipeline24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289923 A1A Big Chunk of Mud LLC
- System and method for implementing computer-simulated reality interactions between users and publications24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289924 A1A Big Chunk of Mud LLC
- Methods and systems for generating interactive composite media assets comprising common objects17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277991 A1EmergeX, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer based records management system method1,575US 5,813,009 AUniVirtual Corp. · 1998
- Connected audio and other media objects859US 6,505,160 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2003
- System and method of managing metadata data754US 6,760,721 B1RealNetworks, Inc. · 2004
- Multi-perspective viewer for content-based interactivity701US 6,144,375 APraja Inc. · 2000
- Customizing database information for presentation with media selections670US 6,411,949 B1Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2002