H04N 21/4532
Involving end-user characteristics
Official title: {involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences (monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18)}
H04N21/4532 (Involving end-user characteristics) appears on 6,519 US grants and 8,521 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 6,519
- Published applications
- 8,521
- Assignees
- 1,280
- Inventors
- 10,322
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 148 | 188 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for identifying unknown users of a device to provide personalized user profiles6 Oct 2026US 12,756,883 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Addressable advertisement and programmatically delivered advertisement insertion and playing29 Sep 2026US 12,750,552 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Method and device for personalizing generic multimedia content22 Sep 2026US 12,744,964 B2Orange
- Publishing disparate live media output streams in mixed mode15 Sep 2026US 12,739,460 B2Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Systems and methods of displaying content15 Sep 2026US 12,739,475 B2OpenTV, Inc.
- 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
- Ephemeral content in video conferences8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313071 A1Zoom Communications, Inc.
- System and method for presenting secondary content on a second screen of a dual screen display system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313189 A1Telly, Inc.
- Systems and methods of presenting mixed media in a three-dimensional environment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313190 A1Apple Inc.
- Systems and methods for controlling access to media assets using two-factor authentication8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313193 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for displaying and recording control interface with television programs, video, advertising information and program scheduling information2,572US 6,177,931 B1Index Systems, Inc. · 2001
- System for generation of user profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects2,365US 5,754,939 A1998
- System for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,946US 6,029,195 A2000
- Techniques for intelligent video ad insertion1,777US 6,698,020 B1WebTV Networks, Inc. · 2004
- System and method for scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles1,609US 5,758,257 A1998