H04M 3/566
Relating to a participants right to speak
Official title: {relating to a participants right to speak (arrangements for multi-party communication with floor control, e.g. for conferences, H04L65/4038, H04L65/4046, H04L65/4053)}
H04M3/566 (Relating to a participants right to speak) appears on 159 US grants and 151 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 159
- Published applications
- 151
- Assignees
- 91
- Inventors
- 284
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 5 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 7 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 7 |
| 2008 | 4 | 8 |
| 2009 | 4 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 9 | 6 |
| 2013 | 8 | 6 |
| 2014 | 11 | 8 |
| 2015 | 12 | 11 |
| 2016 | 5 | 8 |
| 2017 | 8 | 10 |
| 2018 | 16 | 12 |
| 2019 | 11 | 6 |
| 2020 | 11 | 6 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2 |
| 2022 | 4 | 12 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9 |
| 2024 | 10 | 6 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 |
| 2026 | 4 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods, apparatus, and products for identifying a conversation282US 7,617,094 B2Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated · 2009
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- Apparatus and method for multi-station conferencing118US 6,332,153 B1VocalTec Communications Ltd. · 2001
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