G06F 16/176
Support for shared access to files
Official title: Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
G06F16/176 (Support for shared access to files) appears on 2,228 US grants and 2,415 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,228
- Published applications
- 2,415
- Assignees
- 559
- Inventors
- 4,647
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2009 | 15 | 39 |
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| 2011 | 38 | 72 |
| 2012 | 49 | 83 |
| 2013 | 65 | 99 |
| 2014 | 89 | 138 |
| 2015 | 102 | 112 |
| 2016 | 125 | 158 |
| 2017 | 138 | 160 |
| 2018 | 124 | 128 |
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| 2020 | 197 | 212 |
| 2021 | 193 | 157 |
| 2022 | 217 | 183 |
| 2023 | 185 | 164 |
| 2024 | 190 | 136 |
| 2025 | 142 | 83 |
| 2026 | 73 | 53 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Dynamically assigning a storage class based on an access pattern on the source6 Oct 2026US 12,754,805 B1Dell Products L. P.
- Techniques for deterministically routing database requests to database servers6 Oct 2026US 12,754,881 B2Apple Inc.
- High-throughput algorithm for multiversion concurrency control with globally synchronized time6 Oct 2026US 12,756,756 B2Google Inc.
- Global namespaces for distributed file systems29 Sep 2026US 12,748,730 B2Qumulo, Inc.
- Partitioning mechanism for parallel processing in delta generation29 Sep 2026US 12,748,731 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Systems and methods for performing bulk file storage system actions over a network protocol1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299801 A1Everpure, Inc.
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- Matter ledger system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277857 A1Broughton Partners
- Data management system, and data updating method and apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277859 A1Cloud Intelligence Assets Holding (Singapore) Private Limited
- Distributed messaging communication system integrated with a cross-entity collaboration platform3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261589 A1Sure Market, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- File server system using file system storage, data movers, and an exchange of meta data among data movers for file locking and direct access to shared file systems1,332US 6,324,581 B1EMC Corporation · 2001
- Representation of collaborative multi-user activities relative to shared structured data objects in a networked workstation environment1,083US 5,008,853 AXerox Corporation · 1991
- Updating local copy of shared data in a collaborative system986US 5,220,657 AXerox Corporation · 1993
- Access control to block storage devices for a shared disk based file system636US 8,086,585 B1EMC Corporation · 2011
- Methods and systems for controlling access to custom objects in a database603US 8,095,531 B2Salesforce. com.Inc. · 2012