G06F 16/1727
Details of free space management performed by the file system
Official title: {Details of free space management performed by the file system (saving storage space on storage systems G06F3/0608; management of blocks in storage devices G06F3/064)}
G06F16/1727 (Details of free space management performed by the file system) appears on 743 US grants and 752 published applications in this corpus.
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- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Storage management system with file aggregation and space reclamation within aggregated files1,032US 6,021,415 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000
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