G06F 16/182
Distributed file systems
G06F16/182 (Distributed file systems) appears on 7,141 US grants and 7,837 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 7,141
- Published applications
- 7,837
- Assignees
- 1,385
- Inventors
- 11,822
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 6 |
| 2002 | 12 | 41 |
| 2003 | 13 | 53 |
| 2004 | 24 | 62 |
| 2005 | 19 | 63 |
| 2006 | 45 | 102 |
| 2007 | 34 | 118 |
| 2008 | 50 | 133 |
| 2009 | 74 | 130 |
| 2010 | 132 | 146 |
| 2011 | 114 | 180 |
| 2012 | 150 | 241 |
| 2013 | 206 | 283 |
| 2014 | 271 | 464 |
| 2015 | 346 | 432 |
| 2016 | 413 | 456 |
| 2017 | 437 | 490 |
| 2018 | 401 | 413 |
| 2019 | 514 | 734 |
| 2020 | 658 | 840 |
| 2021 | 705 | 683 |
| 2022 | 741 | 547 |
| 2023 | 630 | 464 |
| 2024 | 528 | 358 |
| 2025 | 382 | 245 |
| 2026 | 210 | 153 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Techniques for deterministically routing database requests to database servers6 Oct 2026US 12,754,881 B2Apple Inc.
- Techniques for exfiltration telemetry6 Oct 2026US 12,754,882 B1Kiken Technologies, LLC
- Method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for information processing6 Oct 2026US 12,754,884 B2Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- 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
- 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.
- Techniques for optimizing change tracking of a file system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300225 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Rate Limiting In A Distributed Storage System1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300232 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
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