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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 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold since 2009 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing since 2009 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring 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

  1. QUALCOMM US 97,396
  2. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 96,502
  3. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 86,981
  4. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 55,869
  5. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 55,349
  6. LG ELECTRONICS KR 53,649
  7. CANON 33,341
  8. SONY CORPORATION JP 32,761
  9. ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,274
  10. GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION 28,327

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class H04,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 101,476
  2. QUALCOMM US 101,139
  3. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 96,655
  4. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 57,744
  5. LG ELECTRONICS KR 55,253
  6. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 54,181
  7. SONY CORPORATION JP 35,309
  8. ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,950
  9. INTEL CORPORATION US 27,533
  10. GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION CN 27,498