H04L 65/403
Arrangements for multi-party communication
Official title: Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15)
H04L65/403 (Arrangements for multi-party communication) appears on 8,851 US grants and 10,522 published applications in this corpus.
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| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 11 | 0 |
| 1998 | 22 | 0 |
| 1999 | 24 | 0 |
| 2000 | 15 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 14 |
| 2002 | 27 | 66 |
| 2003 | 30 | 96 |
| 2004 | 33 | 118 |
| 2005 | 33 | 132 |
| 2006 | 65 | 119 |
| 2007 | 57 | 176 |
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| 2009 | 101 | 219 |
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| 2012 | 176 | 305 |
| 2013 | 308 | 542 |
| 2014 | 414 | 922 |
| 2015 | 590 | 1050 |
| 2016 | 688 | 861 |
| 2017 | 808 | 626 |
| 2018 | 671 | 552 |
| 2019 | 650 | 495 |
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| 2021 | 538 | 496 |
| 2022 | 591 | 755 |
| 2023 | 654 | 712 |
| 2024 | 620 | 564 |
| 2025 | 491 | 382 |
| 2026 | 221 | 216 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Virtual meeting scheduling and monitoring based on sustainability attributes6 Oct 2026US 12,756,588 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Integrated network testing for virtual conferencing6 Oct 2026US 12,756,645 B1Zoom Communications, Inc.
- Seamless continuation of communication sessions6 Oct 2026US 12,757,267 B2Apple Inc.
- Dynamically selected bridge configurations for overlapping on-line meetings29 Sep 2026US 12,750,410 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Collaborative augmentation, exploration, and maintenance of project hierarchies22 Sep 2026US 12,743,195 B2Jeanifier, Inc.
- Distributed music collaboration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311133 A1Bandlab Singapore Pte. Ltd.
- Content monitoring for virtual meeting rooms8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313008 A1Zoom Communications, Inc.
- Meeting-video management engine for a meeting-video management system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313012 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Simulating user interactions over shared content8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313031 A1Sightful Computers Ltd
- User Interface for Displaying Key Participants in a Conference8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313069 A1Zoom Communications, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Instant sharing of documents on a remote server2,347US 6,654,032 B1WebEx Communications, Inc. · 2003
- System for allowing user of any computer to draw image over that generated by the host computer and replicating the drawn image to other computers2,300US 5,649,104 ANCR Corporation · 1997
- Collaboration system for producing copies of image generated by first program on first computer on other computers and annotating the image by second program2,212US 5,819,038 ANCR Corporation · 1998
- System and method for voice transmission over network protocols2,175US 6,621,834 B1Raindance Communications, Inc. · 2003
- Method and apparatus for providing group interaction via communications networks1,204US 7,124,164 B12006