H04N 21/4621
Controlling the complexity of the content stream or additional data
Official title: {Controlling the complexity of the content stream or additional data, e.g. lowering the resolution or bit-rate of the video stream for a mobile client with a small screen (arrangements for using the results of monitoring on user's side in broadcast systems H04H60/65; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10)}
H04N21/4621 (Controlling the complexity of the content stream or additional data) appears on 1,003 US grants and 1,196 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 1,003
- Published applications
- 1,196
- Assignees
- 433
- Inventors
- 2,028
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 9 |
| 2002 | 14 | 37 |
| 2003 | 10 | 37 |
| 2004 | 18 | 46 |
| 2005 | 19 | 64 |
| 2006 | 32 | 75 |
| 2007 | 21 | 55 |
| 2008 | 32 | 63 |
| 2009 | 38 | 44 |
| 2010 | 30 | 43 |
| 2011 | 42 | 43 |
| 2012 | 47 | 33 |
| 2013 | 59 | 46 |
| 2014 | 51 | 43 |
| 2015 | 51 | 65 |
| 2016 | 42 | 59 |
| 2017 | 42 | 50 |
| 2018 | 42 | 39 |
| 2019 | 61 | 44 |
| 2020 | 49 | 51 |
| 2021 | 44 | 47 |
| 2022 | 55 | 55 |
| 2023 | 65 | 53 |
| 2024 | 46 | 40 |
| 2025 | 25 | 26 |
| 2026 | 23 | 29 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Multicasting method and apparatus589US 5,778,187 ANetcast Communications Corp. · 1998
- Combined MPEG-4 FGS and modulation algorithm for wireless video transmission443US 6,909,753 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2005
- Video teleconferencing for networked workstations354US 5,375,068 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1994
- Method of streaming video from multiple sources over a network320US 6,510,553 B1Intel Corporation · 2003
- Template set for generating a hypertext for displaying a program guide and subscriber terminal with EPG function using such set broadcast from headend242US 6,681,395 B1Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 2004