G06F 16/172
Caching, prefetching or hoarding of files
G06F16/172 (Caching, prefetching or hoarding of files) appears on 1,137 US grants and 1,227 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,137
- Published applications
- 1,227
- Assignees
- 325
- Inventors
- 2,341
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 4 | 8 |
| 2007 | 3 | 10 |
| 2008 | 1 | 13 |
| 2009 | 3 | 23 |
| 2010 | 7 | 19 |
| 2011 | 15 | 27 |
| 2012 | 26 | 38 |
| 2013 | 33 | 51 |
| 2014 | 47 | 83 |
| 2015 | 70 | 72 |
| 2016 | 66 | 90 |
| 2017 | 77 | 86 |
| 2018 | 78 | 93 |
| 2019 | 99 | 105 |
| 2020 | 125 | 120 |
| 2021 | 93 | 83 |
| 2022 | 97 | 63 |
| 2023 | 94 | 77 |
| 2024 | 82 | 61 |
| 2025 | 63 | 53 |
| 2026 | 37 | 43 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for depth based cache authoritativeness6 Oct 2026US 12,754,885 B2Relativity Oda LLC
- Global namespaces for distributed file systems29 Sep 2026US 12,748,730 B2Qumulo, Inc.
- Selective synchronization of content items in a content management system22 Sep 2026US 12,743,397 B2Dropbox, Inc.
- Query acceleration and metadata caching25 Aug 2026US 12,717,789 B2Google Inc.
- Synthesizing full content using file extents without namespace impact11 Aug 2026US 12,705,142 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Horizontally Scalable Multi-Dimensional Analysis Architecture8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310631 A1Blue Yonder Group, Inc.
- Data management system, and data updating method and apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277859 A1Cloud Intelligence Assets Holding (Singapore) Private Limited
- Automated sub-slicing and intelligent parallelism of a high density filesystem10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267825 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Extent restore performance using client-side prefetching with auto recipe generation using ingest-time metadata10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267826 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Facilitating performance of donor-recipient disaggregated storage system workflows based on information relating to units of storage for storage space movement and ownership3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259858 A1NetApp, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Remote database file synchronizer465US 5,729,735 A1998
- Method of relaying file object, distributed file system, computer readable medium recording a program of file object relay method and gateway computer, allowing reference of one same file object among networks381US 6,389,422 B1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 2002
- System and method for accessing remote files in a distributed networking environment345US 4,887,204 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1989
- Executing a cloud command for a distributed filesystem336US 9,811,532 B2Panzura, Inc. · 2017
- Reducing metadata in a write-anywhere storage system331US 9,116,819 B2DataDirect Networks, Inc. · 2015