H04N 21/44204
Monitoring of content usage
Official title: {Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched (monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31)}
H04N21/44204 (Monitoring of content usage) appears on 2,517 US grants and 3,262 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 2,517
- Published applications
- 3,262
- Assignees
- 646
- Inventors
- 4,184
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 100 | 94 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Apparatus for providing information and method thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,755,761 B2Coupang Corp.
- Systems and methods for selectively storing specific versions of media assets29 Sep 2026US 12,750,551 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Addressable advertisement and programmatically delivered advertisement insertion and playing29 Sep 2026US 12,750,552 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Content consumption feedback22 Sep 2026US 12,744,833 B1Apple Inc.
- Method and apparatus for determining click-farming in live room22 Sep 2026US 12,744,945 B2Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co., Ltd.
- Methods and apparatus to determine a conditional probability based on audience member probability distributions for media audience measurement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311010 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Proof of play for images displayed at electronic displays8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313194 A1Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313195 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Methods, systems, and apparatuses for determining viewership8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313202 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Method and system for internal failover of intermediary gateway1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303905 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection1,270US 5,982,891 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Network controller for cable television delivery systems1,167US 5,600,364 ADiscovery Communications, Inc. · 1997
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection1,156US 5,910,987 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Terminal for suggesting programs offered on a television program delivery system1,065US 5,798,785 ADiscovery Communications, Inc. · 1998
- Steganographic techniques for securely delivering electronic digital rights management control information over insecure communication channels1,021US 5,943,422 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999