H04N 21/44004
Involving video buffer management
Official title: {involving video buffer management, e.g. video decoder buffer or video display buffer}
H04N21/44004 (Involving video buffer management) appears on 2,073 US grants and 2,320 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 2,073
- Published applications
- 2,320
- Assignees
- 690
- Inventors
- 3,616
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2026 | 47 | 56 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods and systems for remote rendering6 Oct 2026US 12,756,894 B2signageOS s.r.o.
- Systems and methods for causing a user to view secondary content that relates to a media asset from which a user has switched away22 Sep 2026US 12,744,948 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Machine learning for adaptive bitrate selection22 Sep 2026US 12,744,953 B2Roku, Inc.
- Systems and methods for delivering media assets over hybrid delivery paths22 Sep 2026US 12,744,967 B1
- Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming15 Sep 2026US 12,739,430 B2Divx, LLC
- Buffer management for live video streaming1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303880 A1Dolby International AB
- 4k content memory fragmentation viewing countermeasures1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303901 A1DISH Network Technologies India Private Limited
- Multi-mode conversion of multiple video streams1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303903 A1Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
- Systems and Methods for Seeking Within Multimedia Content During Streaming Playback17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281173 A1Divx, LLC
- Method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for online video editing27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253614 A1Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,970US 6,374,336 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Computer system and process for transferring streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,737US 6,449,688 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Computer system and process for transferring streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,529US 6,785,768 B2Avid Technology, Inc. · 2004
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,489US 6,415,373 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,446US 7,111,115 B2Avid Technology, Inc. · 2006