H04N 21/26216
Involving the channel capacity
Official title: {involving the channel capacity, e.g. network bandwidth (admission control, resource allocation in open networks H04L12/5692; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; establishing a schedule or organising the servicing of application requests taking into account QoS H04L67/61)}
H04N21/26216 (Involving the channel capacity) appears on 556 US grants and 640 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 556
- Published applications
- 640
- Assignees
- 257
- Inventors
- 1,072
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 3 |
| 2002 | 7 | 30 |
| 2003 | 7 | 25 |
| 2004 | 10 | 20 |
| 2005 | 5 | 26 |
| 2006 | 11 | 21 |
| 2007 | 12 | 28 |
| 2008 | 10 | 25 |
| 2009 | 10 | 35 |
| 2010 | 33 | 34 |
| 2011 | 24 | 20 |
| 2012 | 28 | 26 |
| 2013 | 27 | 25 |
| 2014 | 23 | 25 |
| 2015 | 32 | 37 |
| 2016 | 29 | 27 |
| 2017 | 34 | 30 |
| 2018 | 23 | 28 |
| 2019 | 31 | 27 |
| 2020 | 40 | 39 |
| 2021 | 35 | 25 |
| 2022 | 27 | 32 |
| 2023 | 26 | 22 |
| 2024 | 23 | 13 |
| 2025 | 22 | 9 |
| 2026 | 3 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Content item transmission22 Sep 2026US 12,744,950 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Electronic device and operation method thereof19 May 2026US 12,634,534 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Streaming scene prioritizer for immersive media19 May 2026US 12,634,541 B2Tencent America LLC
- Delivery platform for cinema content16 Dec 2025US 12,501,092 B2Barco N.V.
- Systems, methods and computer-readable media for local content storage within a media network25 Nov 2025US 12,483,754 B2FreeWheel Media, Inc.
- System and method for optimized data delivery over hybrid networks based on data priority, caching, cost, and delivery schedule27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255007 A1
- Pre-fetching and storing media locally on customer premises equipment2 Jul 2026US 2026/0189743 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Delivery platform for cinema content14 May 2026US 2026/0136056 A1Barco N.V.
- Methods and apparatus for a unified stream format23 Apr 2026US 2026/0113391 A1Directv, LLC
- Methods and apparatus to provide electronic program guide (epg) data23 Apr 2026US 2026/0113497 A1Directv, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for scalable, high bandwidth storage retrieval and transportation of multimedia data on a network780US 5,805,804 AOracle Corporation · 1998
- Operations center with video storage for a television program packaging and delivery system655US 5,600,573 ADiscovery Communications, Inc. · 1997
- Method and apparatus for displaying an interactive television program guide540US 5,844,620 AGeneral Instrument Corporation · 1998
- Method and apparatus for installation abstraction in a secure content delivery system363US 6,374,402 B1Into Networks, Inc. · 2002
- Methods and apparatus for supporting transmission of streaming data296US 7,447,775 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2008