H04M 1/00 Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- ELECTRICITY
- Class:
- ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- Subclass:
- TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
Filing statistics
IPC H04M 1/00 belongs to the parent subclass H04M, which recorded 292,116 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings declined from 26,112 in 2013 to 15,773 in 2023 (-40%), peaking at 34,745 applications in 2017. The most active applicants in class H04 are QUALCOMM (97,396 applications), HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY (96,502 applications) and SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (86,981 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
Additional Content
Subscriber services or facilities provided at exchanges Prepayment telephone coin boxes Current supply arrangements
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Child Classifications
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- H04M 1/02 Constructional features of telephone sets
- H04M 1/24 Arrangements for testing
- H04M 1/247 Telephone sets including user guidance or feature selection means facilitating their use
- H04M 1/253 Telephone sets using digital voice transmission
- H04M 1/26 Devices for calling a subscriber
- H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
- H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set
- H04M 1/58 Anti-side-tone circuits
- H04M 1/6 including speech amplifiers
- H04M 1/64 Automatic arrangements for answering calls; Automatic arrangements for recording messages for absent subscribers; Arrangements for recording conversations
- H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling
- H04M 1/68 Circuit arrangements for preventing eavesdropping
- H04M 1/71 Substation extension arrangements
- H04M 1/72 Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
- H04M 1/738 Interface circuits for coupling substations to external telephone lines
- H04M 1/78 Circuit arrangements in which low-frequency speech signals proceed in one direction on the line, while speech signals proceeding in the other direction on the line are modulated on a high-frequency carrier signal
- H04M 1/8 Telephone line holding circuits
- H04M 1/82 Line monitoring circuits for call progress or status discrimination
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor 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