H04N 21/462
Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic programme guide
Official title: Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic programme guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end or controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
H04N21/462 (Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic programme guide) appears on 10,588 US grants and 13,692 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 10,588
- Published applications
- 13,692
- Assignees
- 2,165
- Inventors
- 15,997
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 17 | 0 |
| 1997 | 38 | 0 |
| 1998 | 59 | 0 |
| 1999 | 96 | 0 |
| 2000 | 114 | 0 |
| 2001 | 145 | 136 |
| 2002 | 134 | 629 |
| 2003 | 125 | 522 |
| 2004 | 180 | 550 |
| 2005 | 166 | 596 |
| 2006 | 278 | 605 |
| 2007 | 235 | 681 |
| 2008 | 274 | 686 |
| 2009 | 318 | 622 |
| 2010 | 473 | 611 |
| 2011 | 419 | 593 |
| 2012 | 474 | 564 |
| 2013 | 604 | 671 |
| 2014 | 826 | 916 |
| 2015 | 804 | 833 |
| 2016 | 674 | 719 |
| 2017 | 627 | 619 |
| 2018 | 567 | 523 |
| 2019 | 587 | 459 |
| 2020 | 454 | 415 |
| 2021 | 422 | 373 |
| 2022 | 376 | 346 |
| 2023 | 363 | 329 |
| 2024 | 313 | 296 |
| 2025 | 243 | 244 |
| 2026 | 145 | 154 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Updating media devices in a local network with a client-server architecture6 Oct 2026US 12,756,624 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Transmitting method, receiving method, transmitting apparatus, and receiving apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,756,885 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Display apparatus and method6 Oct 2026US 12,756,890 B2Vidaa (Netherlands) International Holdings B.V.
- Broadcast receiving device6 Oct 2026US 12,756,893 B2Maxell, Ltd.
- Publishing disparate live media output streams using live input streams6 Oct 2026US 12,756,898 B2Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Image processing device, operation method of image processing device, and operation program of image processing device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313197 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Broadcast receiving apparatus and portable information terminal8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313200 A1Maxell, Ltd.
- System and method for providing an app store and deploying applications on a dual screen television8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313201 A1Telly, Inc.
- Display apparatus, method for operating the same, and computer-readable storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313204 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- digital contents receiving apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303892 A1NL Giken Incorporated
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection3,563US 5,892,900 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- 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
- System and method for request, delivery and use of multimedia files for audiovisual entertainment in the home environment1,801US 6,778,869 B2Sony Corporation · 2004