H04N 21/25883
Being end-user demographical data
Official title: {being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address (arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52)}
H04N21/25883 (Being end-user demographical data) appears on 1,586 US grants and 2,057 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 1,586
- Published applications
- 2,057
- Assignees
- 473
- Inventors
- 2,520
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 12 |
| 2002 | 7 | 88 |
| 2003 | 3 | 42 |
| 2004 | 13 | 40 |
| 2005 | 2 | 41 |
| 2006 | 17 | 67 |
| 2007 | 15 | 48 |
| 2008 | 23 | 60 |
| 2009 | 24 | 37 |
| 2010 | 26 | 59 |
| 2011 | 29 | 51 |
| 2012 | 43 | 64 |
| 2013 | 44 | 45 |
| 2014 | 79 | 176 |
| 2015 | 94 | 105 |
| 2016 | 103 | 146 |
| 2017 | 119 | 138 |
| 2018 | 105 | 101 |
| 2019 | 111 | 120 |
| 2020 | 133 | 118 |
| 2021 | 135 | 103 |
| 2022 | 95 | 99 |
| 2023 | 108 | 101 |
| 2024 | 116 | 99 |
| 2025 | 73 | 66 |
| 2026 | 35 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Adaptive on-board media channel interface6 Oct 2026US 12,756,875 B2ViaSat, Inc.
- Video system with object replacement and insertion features15 Sep 2026US 12,739,449 B2Roku, Inc.
- Systems and methods for customizing channel programming8 Sep 2026US 12,732,654 B2Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Generating a customized highlight sequence depicting multiple events8 Sep 2026US 12,732,674 B2Stats LLC
- In-content advertising system25 Aug 2026US 12,720,128 B2Invidi Technologies Corporation
- Dynamic scheduling and channel creation based on external data24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292284 A1Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Methods and systems for managing recommendations for media content items17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281479 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Demographic predictions for content items10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270495 A1Roku, Inc.
- Controlling Sharing of User Data3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261723 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Methods and apparatus to correlate census measurement data with panel data3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261724 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automated collaborative filtering in world wide web advertising1,183US 5,918,014 AAthenium, L.L.C. · 1999
- Network controller for cable television delivery systems1,167US 5,600,364 ADiscovery Communications, Inc. · 1997
- Method and apparatus for providing demographically targeted television commercials998US 5,155,591 AGeneral Instrument Corporation · 1992
- System and method for inserting local content into programming content941US 6,029,045 ACogent Technology, Inc. · 2000
- Targeted advertisement using television delivery systems916US 6,463,585 B1Discovery Communications, Inc. · 2002