H04N 21/858
Linking data to content
Official title: Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
H04N21/858 (Linking data to content) appears on 3,449 US grants and 4,452 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 3,449
- Published applications
- 4,452
- Assignees
- 1,047
- Inventors
- 5,849
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2021 | 190 | 173 |
| 2022 | 181 | 165 |
| 2023 | 157 | 148 |
| 2024 | 141 | 137 |
| 2025 | 102 | 111 |
| 2026 | 58 | 72 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Broadcast receiving device6 Oct 2026US 12,756,893 B2Maxell, Ltd.
- Method and device for filling video ad requests with video ad content transcoded in real time to a stream at a temporary URL6 Oct 2026US 12,756,908 B2Beachfront Media LLC
- Creating packaged video segments having interactive overlays with definable user paths29 Sep 2026US 12,750,457 B1
- Television and system control method29 Sep 2026US 12,750,543 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Enhanced streaming media interstitials with dynamic rendering support22 Sep 2026US 12,744,975 B2Yahoo Assets LLC
- Method of joint viewing remote multimedia content8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313207 A1G-Core Innovations S.à.r.l
- Realtime wireless synchronization of live event audio stream with a video recording8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314022 A1Bygge Technologies Inc.
- digital contents receiving apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303892 A1NL Giken Incorporated
- Methods and systems for content management1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303918 A1Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Scalable and optimized edge ai architecture for interactive streaming applications1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303926 A1Netflix, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for displaying and recording control interface with television programs, video, advertising information and program scheduling information2,572US 6,177,931 B1Index Systems, Inc. · 2001
- TV schedule system and process1,601US 4,706,121 A1987
- Programmable remote control device for interacting with a plurality of remotely controlled devices1,549US 5,410,326 A1995
- Electronic television program guide schedule system and method with data feed access1,287US 5,589,892 A1996
- Information distribution and processing system1,232US 7,181,758 B1Data Innovation LLC · 2007