H04N 7/17309
Transmission or handling of upstream communications
Official title: {Transmission or handling of upstream communications}
H04N7/17309 (Transmission or handling of upstream communications) appears on 7,841 US grants and 9,943 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 7,841
- Published applications
- 9,943
- Assignees
- 1,948
- Inventors
- 13,088
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 160 | 660 |
| 2003 | 137 | 627 |
| 2004 | 172 | 631 |
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| 2020 | 150 | 134 |
| 2021 | 110 | 93 |
| 2022 | 85 | 61 |
| 2023 | 79 | 38 |
| 2024 | 52 | 35 |
| 2025 | 35 | 20 |
| 2026 | 8 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus and method for coding/decoding image selectively using discrete cosine/sine transform29 Sep 2026US 12,749,227 B2Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Apparatus and method for coding/decoding image selectively using discrete cosine/sine transform22 Sep 2026US 12,743,816 B2Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Systems and methods for modifying commercials28 Jul 2026US 12,695,958 B2Adeia Media Holdings LLC
- Issue reporting by a receiving device14 Jul 2026US 12,684,198 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Network time-shift buffering, recording conversion, and content management7 Jul 2026US 12,677,035 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Issue reporting by a receiving device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303907 A1DISH Network L.L.C.
- Systems and Methods for Seeking Within Multimedia Content During Streaming Playback17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281173 A1Divx, LLC
- Video distribution server, video distribution method and recording medium17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281281 A1DWANGO Co., Ltd.
- 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
- Video transmission system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238742 A1Rohm Co., Ltd.
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
- System for generation of user profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects2,365US 5,754,939 A1998
- 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
- System for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,946US 6,029,195 A2000
- Multi-room entertainment system with in-room media player/dispenser1,755US 6,256,554 B12001