H04N 21/26208
The scheduling operation being performed under constraints
Official title: {the scheduling operation being performed under constraints}
H04N21/26208 (The scheduling operation being performed under constraints) appears on 1,844 US grants and 2,135 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 2,135
- Assignees
- 611
- Inventors
- 3,140
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 15 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 13 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 6 |
| 2002 | 20 | 86 |
| 2003 | 16 | 89 |
| 2004 | 17 | 51 |
| 2005 | 13 | 62 |
| 2006 | 41 | 54 |
| 2007 | 31 | 56 |
| 2008 | 20 | 70 |
| 2009 | 32 | 85 |
| 2010 | 65 | 73 |
| 2011 | 60 | 48 |
| 2012 | 60 | 74 |
| 2013 | 66 | 59 |
| 2014 | 84 | 90 |
| 2015 | 105 | 110 |
| 2016 | 96 | 100 |
| 2017 | 109 | 109 |
| 2018 | 95 | 112 |
| 2019 | 102 | 116 |
| 2020 | 133 | 134 |
| 2021 | 137 | 138 |
| 2022 | 132 | 107 |
| 2023 | 122 | 102 |
| 2024 | 98 | 90 |
| 2025 | 88 | 63 |
| 2026 | 42 | 51 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Content item transmission22 Sep 2026US 12,744,950 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- System and method for creating a channel schedule15 Sep 2026US 12,739,458 B2ThinkAnalytics Ltd.
- Content delivery optimization based on predicted effectiveness of linear content schedule8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313181 A1Roku, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus to identify media for ahead of time watermark encoding8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313182 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Systems and methods for providing personalized media content to a user1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303908 A1Discovery.com, LLC
- Systems and methods for validating live programming content based on third-party data24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292310 A1DK Crown Holdings Inc.
- Systems and methods for generating notification interfaces synchronized with broadcast events and local interactions17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281508 A1DK Crown Holdings Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for generation of user profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects2,365US 5,754,939 A1998
- 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
- Pseudonymous server for system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,258US 5,754,938 A1998
- Network controller for cable television delivery systems1,167US 5,600,364 ADiscovery Communications, Inc. · 1997