H04N 21/426
Internal components of the client
Official title: Internal components of the client {; Characteristics thereof} (H04N5/44 takes precedence)
H04N21/426 (Internal components of the client) appears on 8,673 US grants and 9,702 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 8,673
- Published applications
- 9,702
- Assignees
- 1,613
- Inventors
- 13,028
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 287 | 184 |
| 2002 | 255 | 605 |
| 2003 | 236 | 459 |
| 2004 | 270 | 658 |
| 2005 | 218 | 734 |
| 2006 | 361 | 765 |
| 2007 | 315 | 828 |
| 2008 | 304 | 668 |
| 2009 | 423 | 618 |
| 2010 | 556 | 505 |
| 2011 | 509 | 407 |
| 2012 | 518 | 371 |
| 2013 | 494 | 367 |
| 2014 | 583 | 449 |
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| 2018 | 252 | 178 |
| 2019 | 211 | 173 |
| 2020 | 193 | 170 |
| 2021 | 158 | 152 |
| 2022 | 150 | 133 |
| 2023 | 132 | 103 |
| 2024 | 107 | 93 |
| 2025 | 81 | 53 |
| 2026 | 26 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04N 21/42607For processing the incoming bitstream2,121
- H04N 21/42684Client identification by a unique number or address936
- H04N 21/42646For reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium879
- H04N 21/42653For processing graphics558
- H04N 21/42676For modulating an analogue carrier signal to encode digital information or demodulating369
- H04N 21/42661For reading from or writing on a magnetic storage medium294
- H04N 21/42692For reading from or writing on a volatile storage medium233
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