H04N 21/4755
For defining user preferences
Official title: {for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre (retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306)}
H04N21/4755 (For defining user preferences) appears on 1,968 US grants and 2,716 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 1,968
- Published applications
- 2,716
- Assignees
- 553
- Inventors
- 3,498
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 25 | 127 |
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| 2024 | 62 | 52 |
| 2025 | 45 | 47 |
| 2026 | 31 | 31 |
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.
- Display apparatus and method6 Oct 2026US 12,756,890 B2Vidaa (Netherlands) International Holdings B.V.
- Profiling media characters29 Sep 2026US 12,750,555 B2CharacTour LLC
- Generating translated media streams with accent15 Sep 2026US 12,739,294 B2Vidubly Ltd
- Generating personalized videos with selective replacement of characters15 Sep 2026US 12,739,479 B2
- User-defined content streaming24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292280 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Display device and method for configuring image quality of same10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270525 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- HDMI AI Smart TV Module27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255013 A1
- Information processing method and apparatus20 Aug 2026US 2026/0247006 A1Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Systems and method for providing video on demand in an intelligent television6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227864 A1Multimedia Technologies Pte, Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- System for generation of object profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,475US 5,835,087 A1998