H04N 21/475
End-user interface for inputting end-user data
Official title: End-user interface for inputting end-user data, e.g. personal identification number [PIN], preference data
H04N21/475 (End-user interface for inputting end-user data) appears on 5,227 US grants and 7,259 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 5,227
- Published applications
- 7,259
- Assignees
- 1,395
- Inventors
- 9,325
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 49 | 32 |
| 2002 | 45 | 225 |
| 2003 | 45 | 235 |
| 2004 | 46 | 258 |
| 2005 | 37 | 253 |
| 2006 | 85 | 252 |
| 2007 | 71 | 291 |
| 2008 | 91 | 313 |
| 2009 | 99 | 360 |
| 2010 | 169 | 319 |
| 2011 | 163 | 301 |
| 2012 | 215 | 311 |
| 2013 | 295 | 352 |
| 2014 | 411 | 533 |
| 2015 | 431 | 452 |
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| 2017 | 321 | 292 |
| 2018 | 281 | 274 |
| 2019 | 311 | 269 |
| 2020 | 264 | 272 |
| 2021 | 256 | 287 |
| 2022 | 257 | 260 |
| 2023 | 235 | 244 |
| 2024 | 213 | 205 |
| 2025 | 174 | 173 |
| 2026 | 105 | 100 |
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.
- Systems and methods for identifying unknown users of a device to provide personalized user profiles6 Oct 2026US 12,756,883 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Display apparatus and method6 Oct 2026US 12,756,890 B2Vidaa (Netherlands) International Holdings B.V.
- Media content favoriting method and apparatus, electronic device, and computer readable storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,756,901 B2Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Facilitating streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture29 Sep 2026US 12,750,277 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Systems and methods for controlling access to media assets using two-factor authentication8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313193 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium for processing live streaming information8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313203 A1Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
- Realtime wireless synchronization of live event audio stream with a video recording8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314022 A1Bygge Technologies Inc.
- User-defined content streaming24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292280 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Methods and systems for implementing a locked mode for viewing media assets24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292302 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Intelligent electronic appliance system and method2,708US 6,850,252 B12005
- 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 scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles1,609US 5,758,257 A1998
- Programmable remote control device for interacting with a plurality of remotely controlled devices1,549US 5,410,326 A1995