H04N 21/26225
Involving billing parameters
Official title: {involving billing parameters, e.g. priority for subscribers of premium services}
H04N21/26225 (Involving billing parameters) appears on 170 US grants and 212 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 170
- Published applications
- 212
- Assignees
- 77
- Inventors
- 263
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 6 |
| 2003 | 0 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 8 |
| 2009 | 3 | 6 |
| 2010 | 2 | 7 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 4 | 7 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4 |
| 2014 | 6 | 8 |
| 2015 | 18 | 20 |
| 2016 | 20 | 28 |
| 2017 | 16 | 26 |
| 2018 | 17 | 9 |
| 2019 | 19 | 19 |
| 2020 | 16 | 10 |
| 2021 | 9 | 11 |
| 2022 | 12 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Computing network for synchronized streaming of audiovisual content1 Jul 2025US 12,348,823 B2Paramount Pictures Corporation
- Computing network for synchronized streaming of audiovisual content18 Jun 2026US 2026/0172640 A1Paramount Pictures Corporation
- Logging and debugging of streaming applications26 Feb 2026US 2026/0059155 A1NBCUniversal Media, LLC
- Computing network for synchronized streaming of audiovisual content2 Oct 2025US 2025/0310610 A1Paramount Pictures Corporation
- Video delivery expedition systems, media and methods24 Jul 2025US 2025/0240338 A1
- Adaptive bitrate streaming using video quality information10 Apr 2025US 2025/0119602 A1Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co., Ltd.
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