H04N 21/4424
Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device
Official title: {Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used (error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04)}
H04N21/4424 (Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device) appears on 884 US grants and 1,145 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 884
- Published applications
- 1,145
- Assignees
- 377
- Inventors
- 2,050
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 | 35 |
| 2003 | 8 | 34 |
| 2004 | 14 | 33 |
| 2005 | 10 | 47 |
| 2006 | 18 | 45 |
| 2007 | 13 | 70 |
| 2008 | 19 | 56 |
| 2009 | 41 | 54 |
| 2010 | 26 | 44 |
| 2011 | 36 | 35 |
| 2012 | 49 | 60 |
| 2013 | 40 | 50 |
| 2014 | 57 | 55 |
| 2015 | 74 | 56 |
| 2016 | 47 | 58 |
| 2017 | 47 | 47 |
| 2018 | 54 | 28 |
| 2019 | 42 | 42 |
| 2020 | 38 | 50 |
| 2021 | 51 | 67 |
| 2022 | 44 | 49 |
| 2023 | 51 | 49 |
| 2024 | 48 | 39 |
| 2025 | 26 | 22 |
| 2026 | 16 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Render estimating engine(s) for remote content generation25 Aug 2026US 12,718,458 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Systems and methods for pausing a digital media stream in response to determining that an associated display device is turned off18 Aug 2026US 12,713,106 B2Netflix, Inc.
- System and method for configuring controlling device functionality11 Aug 2026US 12,707,111 B2Universal Electronics Inc.
- Methods and systems for alerting users regarding availability of unconsumed content4 Aug 2026US 12,699,933 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Methods and systems for content delivery14 Jul 2026US 12,684,197 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- digital contents receiving apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303892 A1NL Giken Incorporated
- Methods and systems for quality of experience measurements16 Jul 2026US 2026/0205641 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Rate adaptation for video coding for machines9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197477 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Complexity scalability with low complexity base layer9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197500 A1Tencent America LLC
- Method and device for video caching, device and storage medium2 Jul 2026US 2026/0189748 A1Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Adaptive video capture decode system491US 8,879,639 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014
- Multimedia delivery system429US 6,446,130 B1Interactive Digital Systems · 2002
- TV set top box using GPS312US 5,621,793 ARubin, Bednarek & Associates, Inc. · 1997
- Functionally modifiable cable television converter system303US 5,003,591 AGeneral Instrument Corporation · 1991
- Multimedia visual progress indication system213US 6,847,778 B1TiVo Inc. · 2005