H04N 21/43 Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
Introduced: January 2011
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronizing decoder's clock; Client middleware
CPC: Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] > Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of, or interaction with, content, e.g. STB [set-top-box]; Operations thereof > Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronizing decoder's clock; Client middleware
Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] (real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ) > Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof > Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
Of 14 combined children, 13 exist in both systems.
1 codes are CPC-only extensions.
6 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
IPC defines codes here since 2011.
Child Classifications
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- H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces ; Content or additional data rendering since 2011 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/432 Content retrieval operation from a local storage medium, e.g. hard-disk since 2011 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations since 2011 +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream since 2011 +8 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream since 2011 +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/436 Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB inside the home since 2011 +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/437 Interfacing the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. for transmitting client requests to a VOD server since 2011 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/438 Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. retrieving encoded video stream packets from an IP network since 2011 +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams since 2011 +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/44 Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs since 2011 +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/442 Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed, the storage space available from the internal hard disk since 2011 +8 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB since 2011 +7 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class H04,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- QUALCOMM US 97,396
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 96,502
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 86,981
- TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 55,869
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 55,349
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 53,649
- CANON 33,341
- SONY CORPORATION JP 32,761
- ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,274
- GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION 28,327
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class H04,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 101,476
- QUALCOMM US 101,139
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 96,655
- TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 57,744
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 55,253
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 54,181
- SONY CORPORATION JP 35,309
- ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,950
- INTEL CORPORATION US 27,533
- GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION CN 27,498