H04N 1/346
Accounting or charging based on a number representative of the service used
Official title: {Accounting or charging based on a number representative of the service used, e.g. number of operations or copies produced}
H04N1/346 (Accounting or charging based on a number representative of the service used) appears on 94 US grants and 126 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 94
- Published applications
- 126
- Assignees
- 28
- Inventors
- 205
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 7 |
| 2011 | 0 | 6 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 5 | 7 |
| 2014 | 7 | 0 |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 | 8 |
| 2018 | 5 | 8 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13 |
| 2022 | 11 | 8 |
| 2023 | 8 | 19 |
| 2024 | 13 | 19 |
| 2025 | 13 | 8 |
| 2026 | 5 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Printing apparatus having contractual information control, method for controlling thereof, and storage medium1 Sep 2026US 12,724,575 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus that manages log for use in calculating usage fee, control method for image forming apparatus, and storage medium19 May 2026US 12,632,200 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.
- Printing system including printing device generating image data and data processing server calculating fee to be charged for forming image based on the image data7 Apr 2026US 12,598,263 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus for prohibiting current user of printing device from accessing user information for former user of the same printing device6 Jan 2026US 12,518,064 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Coverage class setup28 May 2026US 2026/0149781 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program28 May 2026US 2026/0149782 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Information processing apparatus, control method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium25 Dec 2025US 2025/0390694 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Content provision device, content provision method, program, and recording medium for providing content based on reading of an image printed on a medium25 Dec 2025US 2025/0392674 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Image forming device outputting specific information related to contract2 Oct 2025US 2025/0306824 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for managing remotely located document producing machines by using cellular radios113US 5,787,149 AEquitrac Corporation · 1998
- Image forming apparatus, and control program and operation method thereof9US 9,205,668 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2015
- 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