G06Q 20/00
Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
Official title: Payment architectures, schemes or protocols (apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12)
G06Q20/00 (Payment architectures, schemes or protocols) appears on 62,132 US grants and 88,068 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06Q- Granted patents
- 62,132
- Published applications
- 88,068
- Assignees
- 15,535
- Inventors
- 104,566
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 34 | 0 |
| 1977 | 35 | 0 |
| 1978 | 25 | 0 |
| 1979 | 18 | 0 |
| 1980 | 31 | 0 |
| 1981 | 40 | 0 |
| 1982 | 45 | 0 |
| 1983 | 34 | 0 |
| 1984 | 43 | 0 |
| 1985 | 46 | 0 |
| 1986 | 60 | 0 |
| 1987 | 84 | 0 |
| 1988 | 110 | 0 |
| 1989 | 167 | 0 |
| 1990 | 110 | 0 |
| 1991 | 110 | 0 |
| 1992 | 101 | 0 |
| 1993 | 138 | 0 |
| 1994 | 170 | 0 |
| 1995 | 187 | 0 |
| 1996 | 197 | 0 |
| 1997 | 264 | 0 |
| 1998 | 486 | 0 |
| 1999 | 610 | 0 |
| 2000 | 639 | 0 |
| 2001 | 575 | 561 |
| 2002 | 551 | 2232 |
| 2003 | 608 | 2157 |
| 2004 | 648 | 2139 |
| 2005 | 787 | 2465 |
| 2006 | 1190 | 2301 |
| 2007 | 1161 | 2550 |
| 2008 | 1340 | 2854 |
| 2009 | 1556 | 2726 |
| 2010 | 2344 | 2503 |
| 2011 | 2314 | 2467 |
| 2012 | 2355 | 2977 |
| 2013 | 2426 | 3033 |
| 2014 | 2390 | 3957 |
| 2015 | 1791 | 3863 |
| 2016 | 1775 | 3940 |
| 2017 | 2225 | 3884 |
| 2018 | 2374 | 3884 |
| 2019 | 3248 | 4753 |
| 2020 | 3775 | 5661 |
| 2021 | 4149 | 5731 |
| 2022 | 4316 | 5027 |
| 2023 | 4322 | 5063 |
| 2024 | 4292 | 4859 |
| 2025 | 3499 | 3823 |
| 2026 | 2337 | 2658 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection3,563US 5,892,900 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network2,464US 5,960,411 AAmazon. com, Inc. · 1999
- System for generation of user profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects2,365US 5,754,939 A1998
- Internet service of differently formatted viewable data signals including commands for browser execution2,255US 6,295,530 B12001
- Method and apparatus for a cryptographically assisted commercial network system designed to facilitate buyer-driven conditional purchase offers2,225US 5,794,207 AWalker Asset Management Limited Partnership · 1998