DIFF Main Group
H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
Introduced: January 2009
Additional Content IPC
Affiliated means a user or terminal being recognised by a network and/or authorised to use network resources.
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 13 subcodes exist in both systems.
1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
IPC defines codes here since 2009.
Child Classifications
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- H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information since 2009 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services since 2009 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold since 2009 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals since 2009 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel since 2009 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] since 2018 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