G06F 16/164
File meta data generation
Official title: {File meta data generation}
G06F16/164 (File meta data generation) appears on 1,298 US grants and 1,559 published applications in this corpus.
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- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Dynamically changing input data streams processed by data stream language programs6 Oct 2026US 12,754,724 B1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Techniques for deterministically routing database requests to database servers6 Oct 2026US 12,754,881 B2Apple Inc.
- Fault tolerant method for processing data with human intervention29 Sep 2026US 12,748,728 B2H1 Insights, Inc.
- Machine learning data set management for distribution to machine learning applications22 Sep 2026US 12,743,399 B2Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Generation of vectors for retrieval augmented generation using backup data8 Sep 2026US 12,730,931 B2Rubrik, Inc.
- Executing Operations Corresponding To Target Entities Associated With File Systems1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300227 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Systems and methods for folder-based content management / data storage system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300229 A1Cactus Block LLC
- Generation of vectors for retrieval augmented generation using backup data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300542 A1Rubrik, Inc.
- Automatic file creation and location selection standardization17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277858 A1Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
- Snapshot and restoration of distributed file system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267824 A1Rubrik, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer image capture, customization and deployment985US 7,356,679 B1VMware, Inc. · 2008
- Pathname translation in a data replication system736US 7,636,743 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2009
- Identifying and requesting data in network using identifiers which are based on contents of data544US 6,415,280 B1Digital Island, Inc. · 2002
- Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers432US 5,978,791 AKinetech, Inc. · 1999
- Distributed systems with replicated files376US 5,689,706 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1997