H04N 21/258
Client or end-user data management
Official title: Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data {(arrangements for services using the result on the distributing side of broadcast systems H04H60/66; profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/30)}
H04N21/258 (Client or end-user data management) appears on 11,240 US grants and 14,750 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 11,240
- Published applications
- 14,750
- Assignees
- 2,540
- Inventors
- 18,048
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 4 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 10 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 10 | 0 |
| 1996 | 22 | 0 |
| 1997 | 23 | 0 |
| 1998 | 31 | 0 |
| 1999 | 51 | 0 |
| 2000 | 56 | 0 |
| 2001 | 70 | 70 |
| 2002 | 56 | 407 |
| 2003 | 65 | 368 |
| 2004 | 74 | 360 |
| 2005 | 76 | 406 |
| 2006 | 147 | 452 |
| 2007 | 119 | 488 |
| 2008 | 157 | 512 |
| 2009 | 210 | 525 |
| 2010 | 250 | 556 |
| 2011 | 296 | 552 |
| 2012 | 408 | 588 |
| 2013 | 472 | 742 |
| 2014 | 776 | 1012 |
| 2015 | 851 | 864 |
| 2016 | 777 | 880 |
| 2017 | 784 | 823 |
| 2018 | 682 | 652 |
| 2019 | 735 | 701 |
| 2020 | 785 | 723 |
| 2021 | 689 | 661 |
| 2022 | 630 | 616 |
| 2023 | 626 | 589 |
| 2024 | 563 | 517 |
| 2025 | 491 | 453 |
| 2026 | 218 | 233 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Adaptive on-board media channel interface6 Oct 2026US 12,756,875 B2ViaSat, Inc.
- Recommendation system with reduced bias based on a view history6 Oct 2026US 12,756,882 B2Roku, Inc.
- Systems and methods for identifying unknown users of a device to provide personalized user profiles6 Oct 2026US 12,756,883 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Methods and systems for automatically generating queries and displaying visual representations of query results using graphics processing units29 Sep 2026US 12,748,806 B2Pluto Inc.
- Adaptive content composite generation and control29 Sep 2026US 12,750,541 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Packet lake: novel network primitive for low latency volumetric streaming8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313174 A1Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Technique for handling filtering-related information in a core network domain of a wireless communication network8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313180 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Streaming apparatus, streaming method, and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303883 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Streaming apparatus, streaming method, and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303884 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- AI Smart Handsfree Television1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303904 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for displaying and recording control interface with television programs, video, advertising information and program scheduling information2,572US 6,177,931 B1Index Systems, Inc. · 2001
- System for generation of user profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects2,365US 5,754,939 A1998
- System for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,946US 6,029,195 A2000
- System and method for scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles1,609US 5,758,257 A1998
- System for generation of object profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,475US 5,835,087 A1998