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H04W 4/00

Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Introduced: January 2009

Last revised: January 2018

Classification Context

Section:
ELECTRICITY
Class:
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Subclass:
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Filing statistics

IPC H04W 4/00 belongs to the parent subclass H04W, which recorded 1,086,704 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 75,401 in 2013 to 101,506 in 2023 (+35%), peaking at 118,355 applications in 2021. 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

Affiliated means a user or terminal being recognised by a network and/or authorised to use network resources.

13 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
  • 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
  • H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
  • H04W 4/5 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
  • H04W 4/6 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
  • H04W 4/7 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
  • H04W 4/8 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
  • H04W 4/9 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor 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