H04N 21/632
Using a connection between clients on a wide area network
Official title: {using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices (broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104)}
H04N21/632 (Using a connection between clients on a wide area network) appears on 1,034 US grants and 1,347 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 11 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatuses for sharing media content, libraries and playlists756US 7,483,958 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2009
- System and method for distributed storage and presentation of multimedia in a cable network environment235US 7,080,400 B12006
- Systems and methods for networked music playback including remote add to queue220US 9,674,587 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2017
- Method and system for customized television viewing using a peer-to-peer network205US 7,027,460 B2Intel Corporation · 2006
- Peer to peer video on demand system selectively using client and server to forward the requested video program to another client191US 7,325,073 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2008