G06F 16/1724
Details of de-fragmentation performed by the file system
Official title: {Details of de-fragmentation performed by the file system (saving storage space on storage systems G06F3/0608; management of blocks in storage devices G06F3/064)}
G06F16/1724 (Details of de-fragmentation performed by the file system) appears on 186 US grants and 181 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 186
- Published applications
- 181
- Assignees
- 92
- Inventors
- 378
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 8 |
| 2006 | 1 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 5 | 6 |
| 2010 | 3 | 1 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| 2013 | 5 | 10 |
| 2014 | 9 | 10 |
| 2015 | 9 | 24 |
| 2016 | 18 | 10 |
| 2017 | 15 | 12 |
| 2018 | 13 | 13 |
| 2019 | 14 | 13 |
| 2020 | 12 | 9 |
| 2021 | 8 | 7 |
| 2022 | 12 | 7 |
| 2023 | 10 | 12 |
| 2024 | 14 | 12 |
| 2025 | 10 | 4 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Handling data shard fanouts in a deduplication file system26 May 2026US 12,639,269 B1Dell Products L. P.
- Fragmentation management for memory systems5 May 2026US 12,619,356 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Method and apparatus with data loading24 Mar 2026US 12,585,504 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Defragmentation for log structured merge tree to improve read and write amplification27 Jan 2026US 12,536,141 B2NetApp, Inc.
- Consistently grouping and routing data segments for deduplication20 Jan 2026US 12,530,321 B1EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Handling data shard fanouts in a deduplication file system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252533 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Fragmentation management for memory systems6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227905 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Method and apparatus with data loading2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186852 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Defragmentation for log structured merge tree to improve read and write amplification4 Jun 2026US 2026/0154238 A1NetApp, Inc.
- On chip dense memory for temporal buffering19 Jun 2025US 2025/0200697 A1Intel Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- On-line free space defragmentation of a contiguous-file file system170US 6,070,172 AOracle Corporation · 2000
- Defragmentation utility for a shared disk parallel file system across a storage area network146US 6,571,261 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2003
- System and method for defragmenting a file system120US 6,397,311 B1Texas Instruments Incorporated · 2002
- In-place disk partition canonization and storage optimization90US 6,185,575 B2PowerQuest Corporation · 2001
- Opportunistic tile-pulling, vacancy-filling method and apparatus for file-structure reorganization86US 5,778,392 ASymantec Corporation · 1998