H04W 4/24
Accounting or billing
H04W4/24 (Accounting or billing) appears on 5,096 US grants and 5,877 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 5,096
- Published applications
- 5,877
- Assignees
- 1,273
- Inventors
- 8,500
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 10 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 14 | 0 |
| 1997 | 15 | 0 |
| 1998 | 50 | 0 |
| 1999 | 43 | 0 |
| 2000 | 54 | 0 |
| 2001 | 51 | 38 |
| 2002 | 73 | 98 |
| 2003 | 74 | 140 |
| 2004 | 64 | 250 |
| 2005 | 76 | 196 |
| 2006 | 117 | 191 |
| 2007 | 103 | 135 |
| 2008 | 94 | 173 |
| 2009 | 92 | 173 |
| 2010 | 94 | 213 |
| 2011 | 140 | 202 |
| 2012 | 162 | 268 |
| 2013 | 261 | 272 |
| 2014 | 340 | 332 |
| 2015 | 288 | 311 |
| 2016 | 279 | 345 |
| 2017 | 333 | 279 |
| 2018 | 280 | 287 |
| 2019 | 352 | 352 |
| 2020 | 326 | 294 |
| 2021 | 260 | 312 |
| 2022 | 279 | 285 |
| 2023 | 247 | 260 |
| 2024 | 226 | 192 |
| 2025 | 193 | 168 |
| 2026 | 81 | 111 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Enterprise Access Control and Accounting Allocation for Access Networks8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313724 A1Headwater Research LLC
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- Method and system for subscriber-based audio service over a communication network750US 6,662,231 B1SEI Information Technology · 2003
- System for selective communication connection based on transaction pricing signals599US 5,802,502 ABritish Telecommunications Public Ltd.Co. · 1998
- Verifiable service billing for intermediate networking devices555US 8,023,425 B2Headwater Partners I LLC · 2011