G06F 16/166
File name conversion
Official title: {File name conversion}
G06F16/166 (File name conversion) appears on 185 US grants and 206 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 28 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method, device and storage medium for renaming file system objects28 Apr 2026US 12,613,834 B2Baidu International Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
- File path tracing and behavioral remediation on path revision7 Apr 2026US 12,596,606 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Dynamic file selection process to transfer required data file between different servers in near real-time2 Dec 2025US 12,487,966 B2Bank of America Corporation
- Metadata-based recommendations of file names23 Sep 2025US 12,423,267 B2Procore Technologies, Inc.
- Detecting stale storage layouts without using client locks12 Aug 2025US 12,386,793 B2Red Hat, Inc.
- Data storage for scalable processing of large files generated by scientific instruments30 Jul 2026US 2026/0220087 A1Thermo Finnigan LLC
- Systems and methods for performing data backups using a persistent cache11 Jun 2026US 2026/0161511 A1Acronis International GmbH
- Generating a compatible filename for a content item and a filename mapping that maps an original filename of the content item to the compatible filename14 May 2026US 2026/0133936 A1Dropbox, Inc.
- Path-based active hydration of files with no placeholder on disk9 Apr 2026US 2026/0099470 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Automatically assigning application shortcuts to folders19 Mar 2026US 2026/0079887 A1Adeia Guides 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
- Distributed systems with replicated files376US 5,689,706 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1997
- Methods for detecting file altering malware in VM based analysis188US 9,483,644 B1FireEye, Inc. · 2016
- System and method for disk imaging on diverse computers177US 8,209,680 B1VMware, Inc. · 2012