G06F 11/20
Using active fault-masking
Official title: using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements
G06F11/20 (Using active fault-masking) appears on 16,812 US grants and 15,551 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 16,812
- Published applications
- 15,551
- Assignees
- 2,096
- Inventors
- 24,266
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 8 | 0 |
| 1977 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 9 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982 | 11 | 0 |
| 1983 | 13 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 118 | 0 |
| 1998 | 160 | 0 |
| 1999 | 144 | 0 |
| 2000 | 125 | 0 |
| 2001 | 140 | 52 |
| 2002 | 189 | 224 |
| 2003 | 214 | 331 |
| 2004 | 238 | 416 |
| 2005 | 243 | 593 |
| 2006 | 485 | 584 |
| 2007 | 423 | 613 |
| 2008 | 507 | 606 |
| 2009 | 508 | 530 |
| 2010 | 631 | 522 |
| 2011 | 634 | 572 |
| 2012 | 575 | 686 |
| 2013 | 691 | 763 |
| 2014 | 865 | 842 |
| 2015 | 923 | 885 |
| 2016 | 968 | 881 |
| 2017 | 891 | 818 |
| 2018 | 823 | 773 |
| 2019 | 938 | 855 |
| 2020 | 966 | 820 |
| 2021 | 861 | 719 |
| 2022 | 845 | 652 |
| 2023 | 752 | 559 |
| 2024 | 560 | 456 |
| 2025 | 487 | 440 |
| 2026 | 275 | 359 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 11/2053Where persistent mass storage functionality or persistent mass storage control functionality is9,131
- G06F 11/202Where processing functionality is redundant6,152
- G06F 11/2097Maintaining the standby controller/processing unit updated2,666
- G06F 11/2002Where interconnections or communication control functionality are redundant2,238
- G06F 11/2015Redundant power supplies844
- G06F 11/2017Where memory access, memory control or i/o control functionality is redundant292
Recent patents
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- Database cluster management6 Oct 2026US 12,756,753 B2Oracle International Corporation
- High availability using virtual storage controllers in a scale out storage cluster29 Sep 2026US 12,748,664 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Cloud-based recovery of backed up data using auxiliary copy replication and on-demand failover resources29 Sep 2026US 12,748,669 B2Commvault Systems, Inc.
- Scalable data migration to the cloud29 Sep 2026US 12,748,670 B2Truist Bank
- Failure prediction and self-healing capabilities in hyperscale platforms8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310561 A1Visa International Service Association
- Methods and Systems for Rapid Failure Recovery for a Distributed Storage System8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310562 A1Weka. IO Ltd.
- Distributed memory with subsets of model weights or parameters based on inference task types8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310597 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Processor device for a braking system, method for operating a processor device, braking system and vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296396 A1ZF Friedrichshafen AG
- Debug and recovery operations for non-removable memory sub-systems1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300071 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,970US 6,374,336 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Computer system and process for transferring streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,737US 6,449,688 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Enhanced raid write hole protection and recovery1,578US 5,774,643 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1998
- Computer system and process for transferring streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,529US 6,785,768 B2Avid Technology, Inc. · 2004
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,489US 6,415,373 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002