G06F 16/68
Retrieval characterised by using metadata
Official title: Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
G06F16/68 (Retrieval characterised by using metadata) appears on 3,488 US grants and 4,417 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 3,488
- Published applications
- 4,417
- Assignees
- 1,098
- Inventors
- 6,369
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 16 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 10 |
| 2002 | 12 | 49 |
| 2003 | 16 | 47 |
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| 2005 | 25 | 91 |
| 2006 | 50 | 121 |
| 2007 | 45 | 171 |
| 2008 | 46 | 223 |
| 2009 | 60 | 182 |
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| 2012 | 135 | 157 |
| 2013 | 144 | 177 |
| 2014 | 177 | 233 |
| 2015 | 209 | 256 |
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| 2017 | 231 | 247 |
| 2018 | 196 | 225 |
| 2019 | 253 | 300 |
| 2020 | 272 | 259 |
| 2021 | 238 | 270 |
| 2022 | 206 | 221 |
| 2023 | 250 | 202 |
| 2024 | 184 | 181 |
| 2025 | 168 | 137 |
| 2026 | 89 | 89 |
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.
- Systems and methods for identifying content corresponding to a language spoken in a household6 Oct 2026US 12,755,729 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Systems and methods to identify products from verbal utterances29 Sep 2026US 12,749,477 B2Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Computer-implemented systems for analysing sound29 Sep 2026US 12,749,564 B2X-System Limited
- Method and system for understanding and fulfilling verb-based succinct queries15 Sep 2026US 12,737,416 B2Google 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
- 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
- Graph-based models with audio nodes1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300388 A1Infosys Limited
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