H04N 21/6581
Reference data
Official title: {Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application}
H04N21/6581 (Reference data) appears on 1,758 US grants and 2,431 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 1,758
- Published applications
- 2,431
- Assignees
- 691
- Inventors
- 3,792
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 6 | 0 |
| 1998 | 11 | 0 |
| 1999 | 18 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 14 | 8 |
| 2002 | 18 | 79 |
| 2003 | 11 | 71 |
| 2004 | 17 | 115 |
| 2005 | 18 | 108 |
| 2006 | 31 | 155 |
| 2007 | 18 | 135 |
| 2008 | 36 | 113 |
| 2009 | 43 | 144 |
| 2010 | 71 | 142 |
| 2011 | 84 | 142 |
| 2012 | 102 | 126 |
| 2013 | 117 | 103 |
| 2014 | 132 | 132 |
| 2015 | 137 | 117 |
| 2016 | 123 | 105 |
| 2017 | 110 | 102 |
| 2018 | 93 | 80 |
| 2019 | 99 | 89 |
| 2020 | 95 | 92 |
| 2021 | 92 | 65 |
| 2022 | 73 | 88 |
| 2023 | 73 | 40 |
| 2024 | 49 | 35 |
| 2025 | 34 | 28 |
| 2026 | 9 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for identifying and correlating an advertised object from a media asset with a demanded object from a group of interconnected computing devices embedded in a living environment of a user25 Aug 2026US 12,720,163 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Discovering and displaying media content related to an electronic document23 Jun 2026US 12,666,114 B2Google Inc.
- Verifying the rendering of video content at client devices using trusted platform modules23 Jun 2026US 12,666,117 B2Google Inc.
- Methods, systems, and media for selecting video formats for adaptive video streaming16 Jun 2026US 12,659,366 B2Google Inc.
- Logging and debugging of streaming applications9 Jun 2026US 12,652,427 B2NBCUniversal Media, LLC
- digital contents receiving apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303892 A1NL Giken Incorporated
- Scalable and optimized edge ai architecture for interactive streaming applications1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303926 A1Netflix, Inc.
- Reducing network bandwidth consumption of real-time broadcasts using generically encoded media objects30 Jul 2026US 2026/0222641 A1ViaSat, Inc.
- Server device, display device, and program23 Jul 2026US 2026/0214287 A1Radius Inc.
- Method and system for cross-social media livestreaming16 Jul 2026US 2026/0205637 A1Bravo Ideas Digital Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer system and process for transferring streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,737US 6,449,688 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Computer system and process for transferring streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,529US 6,785,768 B2Avid Technology, Inc. · 2004
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,489US 6,415,373 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection1,270US 5,982,891 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Information distribution and processing system1,232US 7,181,758 B1Data Innovation LLC · 2007