H04N 21/64
Addressing
Official title: Addressing {(network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming H04L61/00; support for multicast or broadcast of one-way stream services H04L65/611)}
H04N21/64 (Addressing) appears on 1,779 US grants and 2,310 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 1,779
- Published applications
- 2,310
- Assignees
- 615
- Inventors
- 3,428
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2003 | 14 | 41 |
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| 2006 | 23 | 69 |
| 2007 | 27 | 101 |
| 2008 | 22 | 98 |
| 2009 | 42 | 146 |
| 2010 | 51 | 129 |
| 2011 | 77 | 130 |
| 2012 | 94 | 105 |
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| 2014 | 149 | 159 |
| 2015 | 149 | 127 |
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| 2019 | 123 | 83 |
| 2020 | 95 | 87 |
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| 2023 | 58 | 40 |
| 2024 | 54 | 60 |
| 2025 | 52 | 45 |
| 2026 | 30 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Mixing and simulcasting extended reality content25 Aug 2026US 12,718,499 B2MXR Holdings LLC
- Video stream acquisition method, apparatus and system, and device and medium25 Aug 2026US 12,719,828 B2Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Routing of full motion video (FMV) streams in one-way transfer systems using out-of-band routing tables25 Aug 2026US 12,719,942 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Method and device for distributing a multicast encryption key18 Aug 2026US 12,712,712 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Streamlined advertisement integration in multi-rail splicer systems18 Aug 2026US 12,713,076 B2Charter Communications Operating, LLC
- User-defined content streaming24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292280 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Media data processing method and media data processing device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281485 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- Video data transmission method and device, storage medium, and system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281496 A1Cloud Intelligence Assets Holding (Singapore) Private Limited
- Vehicles including split-bus architectures3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259945 A1AutoConnect Holdings LLC
- Reducing network bandwidth consumption of real-time broadcasts using generically encoded media objects30 Jul 2026US 2026/0222641 A1ViaSat, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Information distribution and processing system1,232US 7,181,758 B1Data Innovation LLC · 2007
- Network controller for cable television delivery systems1,167US 5,600,364 ADiscovery Communications, Inc. · 1997
- Targeted advertisement using television delivery systems916US 6,463,585 B1Discovery Communications, Inc. · 2002
- Method and apparatus for targeted advertising633US 6,738,978 B1Discovery Communications, Inc. · 2004
- Multicasting method and apparatus589US 5,778,187 ANetcast Communications Corp. · 1998