H04N 21/64738
Monitoring network characteristics
Official title: {Monitoring network characteristics, e.g. bandwidth, congestion level (data switched network analysis H04L41/14; monitoring functioning in data switched networks H04L43/0817; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10)}
H04N21/64738 (Monitoring network characteristics) appears on 670 US grants and 800 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 670
- Published applications
- 800
- Assignees
- 328
- Inventors
- 1,458
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 5 |
| 2002 | 1 | 16 |
| 2003 | 2 | 7 |
| 2004 | 2 | 11 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12 |
| 2006 | 7 | 17 |
| 2007 | 5 | 17 |
| 2008 | 10 | 10 |
| 2009 | 6 | 23 |
| 2010 | 17 | 16 |
| 2011 | 23 | 12 |
| 2012 | 13 | 22 |
| 2013 | 16 | 57 |
| 2014 | 29 | 41 |
| 2015 | 34 | 65 |
| 2016 | 46 | 70 |
| 2017 | 60 | 56 |
| 2018 | 52 | 47 |
| 2019 | 61 | 47 |
| 2020 | 51 | 49 |
| 2021 | 41 | 43 |
| 2022 | 53 | 49 |
| 2023 | 47 | 44 |
| 2024 | 34 | 27 |
| 2025 | 30 | 20 |
| 2026 | 15 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Interference mitigation for wireless data transmission8 Sep 2026US 12,732,658 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Systems and methods for streaming media content during unavailability of content server7 Jul 2026US 12,677,017 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Use case aware network traffic shaping techniques for power reduction16 Jun 2026US 12,659,277 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Web service client container16 Jun 2026US 12,659,430 B2Dice Corporation
- MN-SN coordination for quality-of-experience (QoE) measurements7 Apr 2026US 12,598,496 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Systems and methods for quality of experience driven in-transport communications10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270169 A1ViaSat, Inc.
- Modulation-based docsis scheduler6 Aug 2026US 2026/0230347 A1Charter Communications Operating, LLC
- Methods and systems for quality of experience measurements16 Jul 2026US 2026/0205641 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Display device for immersive screen, and control method thereof9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195976 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Methods and apparatus to identify media presentations by analyzing network traffic9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197522 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus for supporting transmission of streaming data296US 7,447,775 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2008
- Methods and apparatus for revenue-optimized delivery of content in a network275US 8,099,757 B2Time Warner Cable Inc. · 2012
- Distributed system for delivery of information via a digital network256US 7,742,485 B2Roxbeam Media Network Corporation · 2010
- Fault management in a VDSL network243US 7,134,135 B2Qwest Communications International Inc. · 2006
- Proactive repair process in the xDSL network (with a VDSL focus)238US 7,693,079 B2Qwest Communications International Inc. · 2010