H04N 21/26258
For generating a list of items to be played back in a
Official title: {for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list (retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40)}
H04N21/26258 (For generating a list of items to be played back in a) appears on 2,293 US grants and 2,843 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 2,293
- Published applications
- 2,843
- Assignees
- 660
- Inventors
- 3,904
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 7 |
| 2002 | 8 | 17 |
| 2003 | 4 | 23 |
| 2004 | 6 | 16 |
| 2005 | 2 | 28 |
| 2006 | 9 | 27 |
| 2007 | 17 | 46 |
| 2008 | 8 | 28 |
| 2009 | 10 | 49 |
| 2010 | 13 | 65 |
| 2011 | 17 | 46 |
| 2012 | 31 | 89 |
| 2013 | 51 | 99 |
| 2014 | 112 | 158 |
| 2015 | 112 | 176 |
| 2016 | 154 | 192 |
| 2017 | 159 | 195 |
| 2018 | 159 | 169 |
| 2019 | 207 | 212 |
| 2020 | 208 | 221 |
| 2021 | 194 | 209 |
| 2022 | 219 | 226 |
| 2023 | 204 | 165 |
| 2024 | 171 | 169 |
| 2025 | 142 | 117 |
| 2026 | 67 | 94 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for providing targeted advertisements877US 6,718,551 B1BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation · 2004
- Methods and apparatuses for sharing media content, libraries and playlists756US 7,483,958 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2009
- Operations center with video storage for a television program packaging and delivery system655US 5,600,573 ADiscovery Communications, Inc. · 1997
- Audiovisual reproduction system604US 8,074,253 B1TouchTunes Music Corporation · 2011
- Establishing and interacting with on-line media collections using identifiers in media signals443US 6,829,368 B2Digimarc Corporation · 2004