H04N 21/26291
For providing content or additional data updates
Official title: {for providing content or additional data updates, e.g. updating software modules, stored at the client (deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25)}
H04N21/26291 (For providing content or additional data updates) appears on 500 US grants and 666 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 500
- Published applications
- 666
- Assignees
- 208
- Inventors
- 856
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 3 |
| 2002 | 2 | 17 |
| 2003 | 2 | 14 |
| 2004 | 4 | 10 |
| 2005 | 2 | 10 |
| 2006 | 7 | 17 |
| 2007 | 5 | 22 |
| 2008 | 6 | 17 |
| 2009 | 9 | 31 |
| 2010 | 13 | 38 |
| 2011 | 13 | 20 |
| 2012 | 15 | 25 |
| 2013 | 33 | 32 |
| 2014 | 48 | 127 |
| 2015 | 66 | 53 |
| 2016 | 48 | 28 |
| 2017 | 23 | 27 |
| 2018 | 27 | 22 |
| 2019 | 27 | 29 |
| 2020 | 26 | 24 |
| 2021 | 24 | 22 |
| 2022 | 22 | 24 |
| 2023 | 23 | 24 |
| 2024 | 23 | 16 |
| 2025 | 19 | 10 |
| 2026 | 8 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Updating media devices in a local network with a client-server architecture6 Oct 2026US 12,756,624 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Facilitating streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture29 Sep 2026US 12,750,277 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Systems and methods for determining whether to update embedded advertisements in downloaded content using advertisement update criteria2 Jun 2026US 12,647,634 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Systems and methods for secure updates5 May 2026US 12,621,516 B2Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
- Methods, systems, and apparatuses for scalable content data updating7 Apr 2026US 12,598,351 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Systems and method for providing video on demand in an intelligent television6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227864 A1Multimedia Technologies Pte, Ltd
- Methods, systems, and apparatuses for scalable content data updating2 Jul 2026US 2026/0189755 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Interface interaction11 Jun 2026US 2026/0164073 A1Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Cloud Workload Management Based on Configurable Compliance Objectives30 Apr 2026US 2026/0119674 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Devices for facilitating streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture20 Nov 2025US 2025/0358186 A1DISH Network L.L.C.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cable connected wan interconnectivity services for corporate telecommuters702US 6,452,923 B1AT&T Corp. · 2002
- Technique for effectively accessing programming listing information in an entertainment delivery system307US 7,174,126 B2Time Warner Interactive Video Group, Inc. · 2007
- Virtual assets in an interactive television cable system215US 5,805,155 ATime Warner Entertainment Co. L.P. Time Warner Cable · 1998
- Intelligent digital audiovisual playback system192US 7,574,727 B2TouchTunes Music Corporation · 2009
- Apparatus providing dynamic virtual service selection in a multi-service communications system187US 5,359,601 AScientific-Atlanta, Inc. · 1994