G06F 16/178
Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
G06F16/178 (Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems) appears on 2,966 US grants and 3,188 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
- Apparatus, method and computer program product for point-in-time copying to cloud storage platforms6 Oct 2026US 12,754,883 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Partitioning mechanism for parallel processing in delta generation29 Sep 2026US 12,748,731 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Efficient append-only file system for high-performance key-value stores29 Sep 2026US 12,748,733 B2
- Selective synchronization of content items in a content management system22 Sep 2026US 12,743,397 B2Dropbox, Inc.
- Control transfer of shared content22 Sep 2026US 12,743,400 B2Dropbox, Inc.
- Minimized downtime operations (mdo) for sap software solutions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310446 A1Lemongrass Holdings, Inc.
- Information processing apparatus and method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303844 A1Sony Group Corporation
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- User interfaces for retrieving contextually relevant media content17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277377 A1Apple Inc.
- Data Backup Method, Electronic Device, Storage Medium, and Chip17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277747 A1Honor Device Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method, apparatus, system, and program product for attaching files and other objects to a partially replicated database2,209US 6,732,111 B2Siebel Systems, Inc. · 2004
- Hierarchical backup and retrieval system1,117US 7,395,282 B1Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2008
- System and method for performing a snapshot and for restoring data865US 7,529,782 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2009
- Systems and methods for performing data replication774US 7,651,593 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2010
- System and method for generating and managing quick recovery volumes566US 7,346,623 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2008