H04N 21/43615
Interfacing a home network
Official title: {Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals (home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805)}
H04N21/43615 (Interfacing a home network) appears on 5,047 US grants and 6,874 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 5,047
- Published applications
- 6,874
- Assignees
- 1,029
- Inventors
- 8,188
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 34 | 32 |
| 2002 | 29 | 83 |
| 2003 | 37 | 119 |
| 2004 | 36 | 197 |
| 2005 | 28 | 183 |
| 2006 | 55 | 299 |
| 2007 | 55 | 287 |
| 2008 | 60 | 337 |
| 2009 | 100 | 291 |
| 2010 | 156 | 306 |
| 2011 | 198 | 337 |
| 2012 | 220 | 293 |
| 2013 | 298 | 385 |
| 2014 | 383 | 457 |
| 2015 | 362 | 442 |
| 2016 | 340 | 409 |
| 2017 | 391 | 359 |
| 2018 | 348 | 290 |
| 2019 | 350 | 276 |
| 2020 | 280 | 269 |
| 2021 | 241 | 233 |
| 2022 | 224 | 269 |
| 2023 | 228 | 221 |
| 2024 | 223 | 202 |
| 2025 | 191 | 156 |
| 2026 | 105 | 142 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- System and method for providing an app store and deploying applications on a dual screen television8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313201 A1Telly, Inc.
- Failure Recovery of Wearable Playback Device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313313 A1Sonos, Inc.
- Immersive audio in a media playback system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303676 A1Sonos, Inc.
- Display device and content sharing method for sharing content with external display device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303896 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- Method and system for prevention of hdmi cec line data drop by dynamic load sharing24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292293 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- Controlling and manipulating groupings in a multi-zone media system1,881US 8,483,853 B1Sonos, Inc. · 2013
- Multimedia wired/wireless content synchronization system and method1,810US 6,631,410 B1Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. · 2003
- Method and system for disaggregating audio/visual components1,585US 7,295,548 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2007
- Interactive television program guide with remote access952US 8,046,801 B2United Video Properties, Inc. · 2011