H04N 7/163
By receiver means only
Official title: {by receiver means only}
H04N7/163 (By receiver means only) appears on 3,107 US grants and 4,037 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 3,107
- Published applications
- 4,037
- Assignees
- 844
- Inventors
- 5,733
- Latest grant
- 23 Dec 2025
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 71 | 67 |
| 2002 | 73 | 239 |
| 2003 | 81 | 291 |
| 2004 | 70 | 329 |
| 2005 | 86 | 347 |
| 2006 | 161 | 427 |
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| 2019 | 53 | 28 |
| 2020 | 25 | 19 |
| 2021 | 18 | 10 |
| 2022 | 9 | 6 |
| 2023 | 9 | 5 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 |
| 2025 | 7 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Scrambling device and scrambling method23 Dec 2025US 12,506,929 B2Tcl China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
- Recording online activity based on viewing or interacting with television advertisements28 Oct 2025US 12,457,388 B2Intent Iq, LLC
- Methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content14 Oct 2025US 12,445,679 B2The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Display apparatus, image processing apparatus and control method for selecting and displaying related image content of primary image content5 Aug 2025US 12,382,121 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Rule constraining stream assembly at client-side media player8 Jul 2025US 12,356,119 B2iHeart Media Management Services, Inc.
- Display apparatus, image processing apparatus and control method for selecting and displaying related image content of primary image content13 Nov 2025US 2025/0348200 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Contents receiving system and client18 Sep 2025US 2025/0294200 A1Maxell, Ltd.
- Video port authentication for multi-level security devices15 May 2025US 2025/0159107 A1Raytheon Company
- Recording online activity based on viewing 0r interacting with television advertisements1 May 2025US 2025/0142177 A1Intent Iq, LLC
- Contents receiving system and client19 Dec 2024US 2024/0422373 A1Maxell, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Intelligent electronic appliance system and method2,708US 6,850,252 B12005
- System for generation of user profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects2,365US 5,754,939 A1998
- System for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,946US 6,029,195 A2000
- System and method for scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles1,609US 5,758,257 A1998
- Programmable remote control device for interacting with a plurality of remotely controlled devices1,549US 5,410,326 A1995