H04N 21/85406
Involving a specific file format
Official title: {involving a specific file format, e.g. MP4 format}
H04N21/85406 (Involving a specific file format) appears on 1,382 US grants and 1,846 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 110 | 83 |
| 2026 | 63 | 50 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Dynamic splice point adjustment for video signals29 Sep 2026US 12,750,566 B1Cox Communications, Inc.
- Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming15 Sep 2026US 12,739,430 B2Divx, LLC
- Signaling of picture-in-picture in media files25 Aug 2026US 12,720,116 B2Bytedance Inc.
- System and method for storing multimedia files using an archive file format25 Aug 2026US 12,720,148 B2Adeia Media Holdings LLC
- Increasing security of streaming media by converting a secure media format into a streaming media format without introducing lag18 Aug 2026US 12,713,078 B2Stats LLC
- Transmitting method, receiving method, transmitting device and receiving device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281476 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Method and apparatus for encapsulating and parsing a media file comprising neural network based post filter information17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281518 A1
- Media and data synchronization and encoding platform17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281519 A1Streaming Global, Inc.
- Media file processing method, apparatus and device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259610 A1Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
- Information processing device and method20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246970 A1Sony Group Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for progressively deleting media objects from storage439US 7,751,628 B12010
- System, device, and method for streaming a multimedia file317US 5,928,330 AMotorola, Inc. · 1999
- Presentation of media content from multiple media sources179US 7,178,106 B2Sonic Solutions, a California corporation · 2007
- Method for converting, navigating and displaying video content uploaded from the internet to a digital TV video-on-demand platform155US 7,631,336 B2Broadband iTV, Inc. · 2009
- System and method for scheduling and processing image and sound data144US 5,951,646 AAmerica Online, Inc. · 1999