H04N 21/83
Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content
Official title: Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content; Content structuring
H04N21/83 (Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content) appears on 17,995 US grants and 22,425 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 17,995
- Published applications
- 22,425
- Assignees
- 3,130
- Inventors
- 25,056
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 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 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 14 | 0 |
| 1996 | 34 | 0 |
| 1997 | 50 | 0 |
| 1998 | 61 | 0 |
| 1999 | 85 | 0 |
| 2000 | 95 | 0 |
| 2001 | 143 | 136 |
| 2002 | 147 | 592 |
| 2003 | 156 | 617 |
| 2004 | 187 | 563 |
| 2005 | 179 | 682 |
| 2006 | 298 | 742 |
| 2007 | 260 | 772 |
| 2008 | 287 | 837 |
| 2009 | 365 | 850 |
| 2010 | 564 | 876 |
| 2011 | 541 | 721 |
| 2012 | 682 | 835 |
| 2013 | 767 | 986 |
| 2014 | 1142 | 1248 |
| 2015 | 1014 | 1085 |
| 2016 | 1049 | 1099 |
| 2017 | 1044 | 1173 |
| 2018 | 989 | 1065 |
| 2019 | 1122 | 1033 |
| 2020 | 1130 | 1171 |
| 2021 | 1139 | 1143 |
| 2022 | 1118 | 1054 |
| 2023 | 1075 | 1046 |
| 2024 | 982 | 865 |
| 2025 | 791 | 741 |
| 2026 | 454 | 493 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method and network equipment for local encoding of digital terrestrial television content into segments of adaptive content over http6 Oct 2026US 12,756,878 B2Orange
- Display apparatus and method6 Oct 2026US 12,756,890 B2Vidaa (Netherlands) International Holdings B.V.
- Methods and apparatus to detect a presence status6 Oct 2026US 12,756,897 B2The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Publishing disparate live media output streams using live input streams6 Oct 2026US 12,756,898 B2Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Media content favoriting method and apparatus, electronic device, and computer readable storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,756,901 B2Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Monitoring streaming media content8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312894 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved transmission of content8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313178 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Methods and apparatus to identify media for ahead of time watermark encoding8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313182 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Systems and methods for playing media assets stored on a digital video recorder based on a determined beginning of a recorded program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313199 A1DISH Network L.L.C.
- Systems and methods for providing a contextual menu with information related to an emergency alert8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313205 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection3,563US 5,892,900 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,970US 6,374,336 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 manner1,737US 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