H04N 1/344
Accounting or charging based on type of function or service used
Official title: {Accounting or charging based on type of function or service used, e.g. copying, faxing}
H04N1/344 (Accounting or charging based on type of function or service used) appears on 75 US grants and 102 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 75
- Published applications
- 102
- Assignees
- 26
- Inventors
- 179
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2014 | 4 | 3 |
| 2015 | 6 | 6 |
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| 2019 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2023 | 9 | 16 |
| 2024 | 14 | 11 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
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Recent patents
- Printing apparatus having contractual information control, method for controlling thereof, and storage medium1 Sep 2026US 12,724,575 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for calculating a fee based on sequential processing19 May 2026US 12,634,404 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium5 May 2026US 12,621,399 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program, and information processing method that allow user to check printed matter before payment9 Dec 2025US 12,495,117 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image forming apparatus, server, and system for use with apparatus or consumable contracts17 Jun 2025US 12,335,449 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for control device, control device, system and method30 Apr 2026US 2026/0119616 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- A printing system, a copying system, a method of printing and a method of copying6 Nov 2025US 2025/0341988 A1
- Computer-readable storage medium, information processing device, and method to improve procedure to access service providing server16 Jan 2025US 2025/0023998 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for terminal device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for server, and control method of system9 Jan 2025US 2025/0013399 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for first server, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for terminal device21 Nov 2024US 2024/0385789 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- System that facilitates making mobile payments to multi-function printer using proximity network and payment server7US 10,827,092 B1Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated · 2020
- Apparatus, system, and method of image processing, and recording medium storing image processing program5US 8,804,159 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2014
- Printing system and method of controlling printing system that allow a user of a mobile terminal to print to an image forming apparatus using the mobile terminal, and a service provider to charge the user for printing4US 10,404,889 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2019
- Apparatus, system, and method of image processing, and recording medium storing image processing program4US 8,351,059 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2013
- Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for registering reservation printing users2US 10,291,820 B2Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. · 2019