H04M 2250/56
Including a user help function
Official title: including a user help function
H04M2250/56 (Including a user help function) appears on 167 US grants and 197 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 167
- Published applications
- 197
- Assignees
- 118
- Inventors
- 438
- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002 | 5 | 10 |
| 2003 | 5 | 10 |
| 2004 | 8 | 10 |
| 2005 | 6 | 13 |
| 2006 | 3 | 18 |
| 2007 | 6 | 33 |
| 2008 | 9 | 16 |
| 2009 | 6 | 10 |
| 2010 | 14 | 7 |
| 2011 | 7 | 8 |
| 2012 | 10 | 5 |
| 2013 | 7 | 5 |
| 2014 | 8 | 10 |
| 2015 | 8 | 8 |
| 2016 | 11 | 5 |
| 2017 | 9 | 5 |
| 2018 | 4 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 6 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System, method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing mobile device support services7 Apr 2026US 12,598,456 B2Assurant, Inc.
- Tap on mobile device zones8 Jul 2025US 12,356,301 B2Stripe, Inc.
- Electronic smoking substitute device and mobile device with feedback application16 Jan 2024US 11,871,798 B2Imperial Tobacco Limited
- Providing virtual support to an end-user based on experience2 Jan 2024US 11,861,624 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Information processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device18 Jul 2023US 11,706,331 B2Guangdong Oppo Mobile
- System, method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing mobile device support services8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313364 A1Assurant, Inc.
- Systems and methods for context-aware assistance via overlay-based content capture15 Jan 2026US 2026/0017076 A1Celligence International LLC
- Assistive listening device management method and electronic device18 Dec 2025US 2025/0386152 A1Honor Device Co., Ltd.
- Healthy Selfie (TM) -- Methods and Systems for Improving the Accuracy of Phone Images of a Pathology or Injury on a Body12 Jun 2025US 2025/0193514 A1Holovisions LLC
- Tap on mobile device zones2 May 2024US 2024/0147204 A1Stripe, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Personal communicator having improved zoom and pan functions for editing information on touch sensitive display585US 5,615,384 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1997
- Wireless communication device with markup language based man-machine interface478US 6,173,316 B2Geoworks Corporation · 2001
- Personal communicator having improved contrast control for a liquid crystal, touch sensitive display413US 5,422,656 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Hand-ear user interface for hand-held device372US 6,978,127 B1Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2005
- Call intercept methods, such as for customer self-support on a mobile device224US 7,676,221 B2SNAPin Software Inc. · 2010