H04N 21/458
Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream
Official title: Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules {; time-related management operations (arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10)}
H04N21/458 (Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream) appears on 3,206 US grants and 3,976 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Publishing disparate live media output streams using live input streams6 Oct 2026US 12,756,898 B2Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Addressable advertisement and programmatically delivered advertisement insertion and playing29 Sep 2026US 12,750,552 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- 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.
- Systems and methods for playing media assets stored on a digital video recorder based on a determined beginning of a recorded program22 Sep 2026US 12,744,965 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Generating translated media streams with accent15 Sep 2026US 12,739,294 B2Vidubly Ltd
- Systems and methods for playing media assets stored on a digital video recorder based on a determined beginning of a recorded program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313199 A1DISH Network L.L.C.
- Transitioning Of Content24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292298 A1Google Inc.
- Video notification system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292303 A1Snap Inc.
- Systems and methods for validating live programming content based on third-party data24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292310 A1DK Crown Holdings Inc.
- Systems and methods for generating notification interfaces synchronized with broadcast events and local interactions17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281508 A1DK Crown Holdings 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 and method for providing content, management, and interactivity for client devices1,890US 7,130,616 B2Simple Devices · 2006
- Techniques for intelligent video ad insertion1,777US 6,698,020 B1WebTV Networks, Inc. · 2004
- Systems and methods for linking television viewers with advertisers and broadcasters1,174US 6,002,394 AStarsight Telecast, Inc. · 1999
- Network controller for cable television delivery systems1,167US 5,600,364 ADiscovery Communications, Inc. · 1997