H04W 4/12
Messaging
Official title: Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
H04W4/12 (Messaging) appears on 12,249 US grants and 14,298 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 12,249
- Published applications
- 14,298
- Assignees
- 3,093
- Inventors
- 20,079
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2010 | 239 | 488 |
| 2011 | 324 | 478 |
| 2012 | 508 | 568 |
| 2013 | 609 | 733 |
| 2014 | 747 | 856 |
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| 2025 | 397 | 349 |
| 2026 | 206 | 245 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Identifying antenna communication issues using unmanned aerial vehicles6 Oct 2026US 12,755,530 B2DISH Network L.L.C.
- Systems and methods for an artificial intelligence system6 Oct 2026US 12,755,852 B2HealthStream, Inc.
- System and method for contextual notification routing6 Oct 2026US 12,756,991 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Remote control via short message service (SMS) commands6 Oct 2026US 12,756,992 B1SimpliSafe, Inc.
- Conditional message routing in a telecommunications network6 Oct 2026US 12,757,006 B2British Telecommunications Public Ltd.Co.
- Systems and methods for variable reporting of sensor data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311589 A1Oshkosh Corporation
- Method for sending information, method for receiving information, and communication device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312755 A1Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
- System and Method for Arbitrating Lock Screen Surface Access Among Competing Vendor Applications on a Mobile Device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313050 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Electronic device, communication method and storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313323 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Satellite communication method, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313324 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Personal communications internetworking1,899US 5,742,905 ABell Communications Research, Inc. · 1998
- Apparatus and method for coordinated music playback in wireless ad-hoc networks1,891US 6,757,517 B22004
- Multifunctional world wide walkie talkie, a tri-frequency cellular-satellite wireless instant messenger computer and network for establishing global wireless volp quality of service (qos) communications, unified messaging, and video conferencing via the internet1,246US 6,763,226 B1Computer Science Central, Inc. · 2004
- Messaging system and method1,123US 8,332,475 B2Triplay Communications Ltd. · 2012
- Messaging system and method1,086US 9,100,807 B2Triplay, Inc. · 2015