G06F 15/177
Initialisation or configuration control
Official title: Initialisation or configuration control {(processor initialisation G06F9/4405)}
G06F15/177 (Initialisation or configuration control) appears on 1,214 US grants and 992 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 992
- Assignees
- 353
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- 2,092
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Message notification method and apparatus11 Aug 2026US 12,705,121 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Executing large artificial intelligence models on memory-constrained devices7 Jul 2026US 12,675,296 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Device with data processing engine array that enables partial reconfiguration23 Jun 2026US 12,664,120 B2Xilinx, Inc.
- Storage side identification of storage area network boot logical unit numbers16 Jun 2026US 12,657,032 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Method of creating container, electronic device and storage medium16 Jun 2026US 12,657,064 B2Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd.
- Device with data processing engine array that enables partial reconfiguration1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300216 A1Xilinx, Inc.
- Executing large artificial intelligence models on memory-constrained devices24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288469 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Dynamic power rail selection for system-on-chip (soc)20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244252 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Network service plan design20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246816 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Data processing method and apparatus18 Jun 2026US 2026/0170085 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Verifiable service billing for intermediate networking devices555US 8,023,425 B2Headwater Partners I LLC · 2011
- Automatic station identification where function modules automatically initialize401US 5,204,669 ADataCard Corporation · 1993
- Method for automatically configuring devices including a network adapter without manual intervention and without prior configuration information354US 5,655,148 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1997
- Method and means for path independent device reservation and reconnection in a multi-CPU and shared device access system271US 4,207,609 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1980
- Interactive method for configuration of computer system and circuit boards with user specification of system resources and computer resolution of resource conflicts263US 5,353,432 ACompaq Computer Corporation · 1994