G06F 16/18
File system types
G06F16/18 (File system types) appears on 11,023 US grants and 11,868 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 11,023
- Published applications
- 11,868
- Assignees
- 2,015
- Inventors
- 18,049
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 8 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 25 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 10 |
| 2002 | 19 | 57 |
| 2003 | 17 | 66 |
| 2004 | 34 | 82 |
| 2005 | 28 | 99 |
| 2006 | 61 | 149 |
| 2007 | 51 | 196 |
| 2008 | 83 | 214 |
| 2009 | 123 | 218 |
| 2010 | 183 | 219 |
| 2011 | 180 | 290 |
| 2012 | 251 | 405 |
| 2013 | 342 | 442 |
| 2014 | 430 | 692 |
| 2015 | 586 | 712 |
| 2016 | 677 | 709 |
| 2017 | 681 | 739 |
| 2018 | 634 | 677 |
| 2019 | 837 | 1076 |
| 2020 | 983 | 1203 |
| 2021 | 1052 | 963 |
| 2022 | 1065 | 824 |
| 2023 | 930 | 694 |
| 2024 | 801 | 518 |
| 2025 | 563 | 372 |
| 2026 | 326 | 242 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 16/182Distributed file systems7,141
- G06F 16/188Virtual file systems1,529
- G06F 16/185Hierarchical storage management [hsm] systems1,147
- G06F 16/1873Versioning file systems, temporal file systems791
- G06F 16/1805Append-only file systems723
- G06F 16/1865Transactional file systems530
- G06F 16/1847Specifically adapted to static storage315
- G06F 16/1858Parallel file systems, i.e. file systems supporting multiple processors250
Recent patents
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- Digital Duplicate8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310715 A1TADA Cognitive Solutions, LLC
- File System Access During Runtime Of A Portable Executable Program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310783 A1NetApp, Inc.
- Hierarchal snapshot retention storage1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300222 A1Rubrik, Inc.
- Storage system and data control method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300223 A1Hitachi Vantara, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,970US 6,374,336 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Computer system and process for transferring streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,737US 6,449,688 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Computer system and process for transferring streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,529US 6,785,768 B2Avid Technology, Inc. · 2004
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,489US 6,415,373 B1Avid Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner1,446US 7,111,115 B2Avid Technology, Inc. · 2006