H04N 21/6582
Data stored in the client
Official title: {Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number (arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38)}
H04N21/6582 (Data stored in the client) appears on 3,528 US grants and 4,613 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 3,528
- Published applications
- 4,613
- Assignees
- 1,051
- Inventors
- 6,648
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 19 | 20 |
| 2002 | 7 | 116 |
| 2003 | 11 | 105 |
| 2004 | 29 | 139 |
| 2005 | 20 | 117 |
| 2006 | 49 | 168 |
| 2007 | 34 | 185 |
| 2008 | 49 | 159 |
| 2009 | 83 | 189 |
| 2010 | 117 | 207 |
| 2011 | 112 | 179 |
| 2012 | 161 | 234 |
| 2013 | 201 | 245 |
| 2014 | 284 | 373 |
| 2015 | 293 | 249 |
| 2016 | 232 | 234 |
| 2017 | 228 | 188 |
| 2018 | 189 | 172 |
| 2019 | 184 | 176 |
| 2020 | 219 | 214 |
| 2021 | 199 | 239 |
| 2022 | 201 | 217 |
| 2023 | 187 | 173 |
| 2024 | 181 | 143 |
| 2025 | 135 | 112 |
| 2026 | 61 | 60 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Context-dependent in-call video codec switching29 Sep 2026US 12,750,251 B2Google Inc.
- Modified content delivery22 Sep 2026US 12,744,951 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Systems and methods for customizing channel programming8 Sep 2026US 12,732,654 B2Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Systems and methods for saving and restoring scenes in a multimedia system8 Sep 2026US 12,732,655 B2Apple Inc.
- Render estimating engine(s) for remote content generation25 Aug 2026US 12,718,458 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Monitoring streaming media content8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312894 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Systems, methods, and devices for selecting supplemental content27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255004 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Systems and/or methods for distributing advertisements from a central advertisement network to a peripheral device via a local advertisement server20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245116 A1TouchTunes Music Corporation
- Methods and apparatus to classify all other tuning data20 Aug 2026US 2026/0247002 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Distribution server and user terminal13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238842 A1Ntt Docomo, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Techniques for intelligent video ad insertion1,777US 6,698,020 B1WebTV Networks, Inc. · 2004
- Information distribution and processing system1,232US 7,181,758 B1Data Innovation LLC · 2007
- Audience measurement system utilizing ancillary codes and passive signatures1,063US 5,481,294 AA. C. Nielsen Company · 1996
- System and method for inserting local content into programming content941US 6,029,045 ACogent Technology, Inc. · 2000
- Method and system for providing targeted advertisements877US 6,718,551 B1BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation · 2004