H04M 2215/0192
Sponsored, subsidised calls via advertising
Official title: Sponsored, subsidised calls via advertising, e.g. calling cards with ads or connecting to special ads, free calling time by purchasing goods
H04M2215/0192 (Sponsored, subsidised calls via advertising) appears on 302 US grants and 380 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 302
- Published applications
- 380
- Assignees
- 186
- Inventors
- 616
- Latest grant
- 15 Jul 2025
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| 2024 | 2 | 5 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for mobile wireless advertising platform part 115 Jul 2025US 12,363,199 B2
- System and method for providing advertising content via mobile device docking station1 Apr 2025US 12,265,974 B2Oohdoo, Inc.
- Mobile WLAN gateway18 Mar 2025US 12,256,260 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Network connection system2 Jul 2024US 12,026,762 B2
- Advertising-subsidized smartphones and advertising, smartphone, and mobile communications systems and methods27 Feb 2024US 11,914,859 B2Ohana Corp
- Virtualized Policy & Charging System19 Jun 2025US 2025/0200657 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Electronic Mobile Commerce Transactions in a Wireless Network Using a Wireless Mobile End-User Device and a Transaction Server29 May 2025US 2025/0173788 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Wireless Network System19 Sep 2024US 2024/0311887 A1
- Wireless End-User Device Providing Ambient or Sponsored Services28 Mar 2024US 2024/0104650 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Wireless End-User Device Providing Ambient or Sponsored Services28 Mar 2024US 2024/0104651 A1Headwater Research LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cellular telephone advertising system620US 5,852,775 AEarthweb, Inc. · 1998
- Pre-paid card system and method596US 5,577,109 ACall Processing, Inc. · 1996
- System and method for administration of an incentive award system having a delayed award payment using a credit instrument474US 6,222,914 B12001
- Telephone pre-paid calling card system and method389US 5,511,114 ACall Processing, Inc. · 1996
- Telephone toll service with advertising380US 4,850,007 AAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company · 1989