H04N 1/2179
Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users
Official title: {Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries}
H04N1/2179 (Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users) appears on 386 US grants and 427 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Information processing device and information processing method5 May 2026US 12,621,398 B2
- Image forming apparatus management system, image forming apparatus, managing apparatus, terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus managing method, and image forming program10 Feb 2026US 12,549,675 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices3 Feb 2026US RE50,778 E1KYOCERA Corporation
- Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices23 Sep 2025US RE50,599 E1KYOCERA Corporation
- Displaying list of files including file uploaded via chat screen in an information processing system9 Sep 2025US 12,411,639 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image transmission/reception system, operation method of image transmission/reception system, and program7 May 2026US 2026/0129012 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Systems and methods for large document transfer and decentralized storage2 Oct 2025US 2025/0310446 A1Open Text SA ULC
- System and method for selectively sending, delivery and receiving of faxes2 Oct 2025US 2025/0310461 A1Open Text SA ULC
- Image forming apparatus management system, image forming apparatus, managing apparatus, terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus managing method, and image forming program20 Mar 2025US 2025/0097366 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Systems and methods for large document transfer and decentralized storage26 Dec 2024US 2024/0430369 A1Open Text SA ULC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Television system for the interactive distribution of selectable video presentations762US 5,014,125 ACableshare, Inc. · 1991
- Apparatus and method for communicating textual and image information between a host computer and a remote display terminal555US 5,235,680 AMoore Business Forms, Inc. · 1993
- Interactive multimedia presentation and communications system536US 5,191,410 ATelaction Corporation · 1993
- Interactive multimedia presentation & communication system497US 5,195,092 ATelaction Corporation · 1993
- Digital interactive communication system489US 4,792,849 ATelaction Corporation · 1988