H04N 21/64792
Controlling the complexity of the content stream
Official title: {Controlling the complexity of the content stream, e.g. by dropping packets (intermediate media network packet handling H04L65/765; proxy provisioning conversion or adaptation for reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data H04L67/5651; negotiation of resources in wireless networks H04W28/16)}
H04N21/64792 (Controlling the complexity of the content stream) appears on 367 US grants and 471 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Multi-Content Delivery Network Load Balancing over Content Steering Server19 Feb 2026US 2026/0052297 A1Synamedia Viviedtec Holdings, Inc.
- Systems and methods for light weight bitrate-resolution optimization for live streaming and transcoding5 Feb 2026US 2026/0039888 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Data packet transmission method and related device1 Jan 2026US 2026/0006263 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Seamless Content Encoding and Transmission18 Dec 2025US 2025/0386042 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for caching for streaming data233US 7,028,096 B1Streaming21, Inc. · 2006
- Method of providing replay on demand for streaming digital multimedia215US 6,496,980 B1Intel Corporation · 2002
- Analyzing, indexing and seeking of streaming information188US 6,535,920 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2003
- Software-based encoder for a software-implemented end-to-end scalable video delivery system168US 5,621,660 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1997
- High speed single chip digital video network apparatus156US 5,856,975 ALSI Logic Corporation · 1999