H04N 21/25833
Involving client hardware characteristics
Official title: {involving client hardware characteristics, e.g. manufacturer, processing or storage capabilities (allocation of resources considering hardware capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5044; allocation of resources considering software capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5055)}
H04N21/25833 (Involving client hardware characteristics) appears on 686 US grants and 874 published applications in this corpus.
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- 296
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2003 | 4 | 24 |
| 2004 | 3 | 62 |
| 2005 | 9 | 33 |
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| 2019 | 33 | 37 |
| 2020 | 37 | 21 |
| 2021 | 28 | 21 |
| 2022 | 24 | 18 |
| 2023 | 21 | 27 |
| 2024 | 13 | 22 |
| 2025 | 25 | 19 |
| 2026 | 11 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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