H04M 1/247
Telephone sets including user guidance or feature selection means facilitating their use
Official title: Telephone sets including user guidance or feature selection means facilitating their use (user interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones H04M1/724)
H04M1/247 (Telephone sets including user guidance or feature selection means facilitating their use) appears on 1,264 US grants and 1,025 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 1,264
- Published applications
- 1,025
- Assignees
- 477
- Inventors
- 2,019
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 11 | 0 |
| 1990 | 7 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 14 | 0 |
| 1995 | 31 | 0 |
| 1996 | 37 | 0 |
| 1997 | 28 | 0 |
| 1998 | 40 | 0 |
| 1999 | 51 | 0 |
| 2000 | 43 | 0 |
| 2001 | 47 | 13 |
| 2002 | 34 | 47 |
| 2003 | 31 | 50 |
| 2004 | 28 | 54 |
| 2005 | 31 | 54 |
| 2006 | 53 | 48 |
| 2007 | 28 | 72 |
| 2008 | 27 | 75 |
| 2009 | 33 | 44 |
| 2010 | 36 | 55 |
| 2011 | 46 | 29 |
| 2012 | 54 | 33 |
| 2013 | 64 | 47 |
| 2014 | 46 | 53 |
| 2015 | 45 | 24 |
| 2016 | 51 | 49 |
| 2017 | 36 | 48 |
| 2018 | 42 | 34 |
| 2019 | 47 | 35 |
| 2020 | 37 | 33 |
| 2021 | 36 | 33 |
| 2022 | 24 | 28 |
| 2023 | 41 | 31 |
| 2024 | 21 | 16 |
| 2025 | 18 | 19 |
| 2026 | 9 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04M 1/2473Telephone terminals interfacing a personal computer342
- H04M 1/2478Telephone terminals specially adapted for non-voice services306
- H04M 1/2474Telephone terminals specially adapted for disabled people278
- H04M 1/2471Configurable and interactive telephone terminals with subscriber controlled features modifications179
- H04M 1/2477For selecting a function from a menu display170
Recent patents
- Dynamic direction of incoming calls29 Sep 2026US 12,750,442 B18x8, Inc.
- Apparatus, system and method for emergency communications18 Aug 2026US 12,712,962 B2Essence Security International (E.S.I.) Ltd.
- Device independent text captioned telephone service18 Aug 2026US 12,712,968 B2Ultratec, Inc.
- Personal audio assistant device and method23 Jun 2026US 12,664,994 B2ST FamTech, LLC
- Personal audio assistant device and method2 Jun 2026US 12,646,522 B2ST R&DTech, LLC
- Personal audio assistant device and method9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196230 A1ST DetectTech, LLC
- Semiautomated relay method and apparatus25 Dec 2025US 2025/0391402 A1Ultratec, Inc.
- Semiautomated relay method and apparatus25 Sep 2025US 2025/0299673 A1Ultratec, Inc.
- Personal audio assistant device and method25 Sep 2025US 2025/0299688 A1ST DetectTech, LLC
- Ystem and method for processing telephony sessions18 Sep 2025US 2025/0294095 A1Twilio Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Instant messaging via telephone interfaces754US 6,757,365 B1TellMe Networks, Inc. · 2004
- Method and architecture for an interactive two-way data communication network739US 5,809,415 AUnwired Planet, LLC · 1998
- Coaxial cable/twisted pair fed, integrated residence gateway controlled, set-top box537US 6,510,152 B1AT&T Corp. · 2003
- Unified communication services via e-mail448US 6,549,612 B2Telecommunications Premium Services, Inc. · 2003
- Miniature digital assistant having enhanced host communication412US 5,835,732 AElonex I. P. Holdings, Ltd. · 1998