H04N 21/4432
Powering on the client
Official title: {Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server (resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57)}
H04N21/4432 (Powering on the client) appears on 682 US grants and 777 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 682
- Published applications
- 777
- Assignees
- 251
- Inventors
- 1,398
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002 | 7 | 20 |
| 2003 | 5 | 18 |
| 2004 | 4 | 25 |
| 2005 | 6 | 43 |
| 2006 | 17 | 45 |
| 2007 | 9 | 60 |
| 2008 | 14 | 40 |
| 2009 | 19 | 41 |
| 2010 | 68 | 35 |
| 2011 | 46 | 38 |
| 2012 | 28 | 35 |
| 2013 | 51 | 45 |
| 2014 | 59 | 41 |
| 2015 | 42 | 41 |
| 2016 | 38 | 35 |
| 2017 | 46 | 36 |
| 2018 | 30 | 27 |
| 2019 | 37 | 38 |
| 2020 | 32 | 17 |
| 2021 | 24 | 28 |
| 2022 | 19 | 18 |
| 2023 | 19 | 14 |
| 2024 | 23 | 17 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8 |
| 2026 | 9 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Signal processing appparatus and methods797US 5,335,277 AThe Personalized Mass Media Corporation · 1994
- Method and apparatus for scalable, high bandwidth storage retrieval and transportation of multimedia data on a network780US 5,805,804 AOracle Corporation · 1998
- Signal processing apparatus and methods615US 4,965,825 AThe Personalized Mass Media Corporation · 1990
- Signal processing apparatus and methods470US 5,233,654 AThe Personalized Mass Media Corporation · 1993
- Signal processing apparatus and methods449US 5,109,414 AThe Personalized Mass Media Corporation · 1992