G06F 16/60
Information retrieval: of audio data
Official title: of audio data
G06F16/60 (Information retrieval: of audio data) appears on 5,427 US grants and 6,874 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- 1,568
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 338 | 310 |
| 2025 | 279 | 255 |
| 2026 | 154 | 178 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Media content search based on metadata6 Oct 2026US 12,754,951 B2Sonos, Inc.
- Artificial intelligence device for providing user-personalized content, and method for controlling same device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,953 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Audio data selection for video matching using generative artificial intelligence model6 Oct 2026US 12,755,535 B2Beacon Street Technologies, LLC
- Systems and methods for identifying content corresponding to a language spoken in a household6 Oct 2026US 12,755,729 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Automated device activation in interactive content6 Oct 2026US 12,755,737 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Generating multimodal experiences from source content8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310630 A1SINAI.AI, Inc.
- Systems and methods for assessing consistency of interrogation responses with a record of facts8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310703 A1The Simple Associate, Inc., dba Briefpoint
- Distributed music collaboration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311133 A1Bandlab Singapore Pte. Ltd.
- Systems and methods for collaborative audio agents using large language models and retrieval-augmented generation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311705 A1Robert Bosch GmbH
- Audio question answering with grounding1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300386 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- Method and device for obtaining playlist content over a network1,821US 8,045,952 B2Horsham Enterprises, LLC · 2011
- System for electrically distributing personalized information1,448US 5,721,827 A1998
- System and methods for selecting music on the basis of subjective content1,226US 5,616,876 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1997
- Network apparatus and method for preview of music products and compilation of market data981US 5,963,916 AIntouch Group, Inc. · 1999