G06F 16/188
Virtual file systems
G06F16/188 (Virtual file systems) appears on 1,529 US grants and 1,610 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,529
- Published applications
- 1,610
- Assignees
- 387
- Inventors
- 3,005
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 5 | 7 |
| 2003 | 3 | 10 |
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| 2008 | 12 | 34 |
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| 2012 | 39 | 65 |
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| 2014 | 50 | 82 |
| 2015 | 87 | 99 |
| 2016 | 124 | 117 |
| 2017 | 102 | 106 |
| 2018 | 103 | 113 |
| 2019 | 135 | 121 |
| 2020 | 129 | 122 |
| 2021 | 120 | 118 |
| 2022 | 122 | 136 |
| 2023 | 130 | 98 |
| 2024 | 113 | 74 |
| 2025 | 81 | 53 |
| 2026 | 42 | 33 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Model object management and storage system1 Sep 2026US 12,724,750 B2Palantir Technologies Inc.
- Scalable mapping structures for supporting log writes25 Aug 2026US 12,717,759 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Self-optimizing container image filesystem25 Aug 2026US 12,717,760 B2Snowflake Inc.
- Enhanced availability management of virtual storage volumes in file system services25 Aug 2026US 12,717,761 B2NetApp, Inc.
- Metadata control in a load-balanced distributed storage system18 Aug 2026US 12,711,104 B2Weka. IO Ltd.
- File System Access During Runtime Of A Portable Executable Program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310783 A1NetApp, Inc.
- System and method for performing context aware operating file system virtualization1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300235 A1Unity Technologies ApS
- High Performance Object Storage13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236193 A1Google Inc.
- Cluster operating system implementation method and apparatus, device, and storage medium13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236401 A1
- Enhanced Availability Management Of Virtual Storage Volumes In File System Services30 Jul 2026US 2026/0220095 A1NetApp, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer image capture, customization and deployment985US 7,356,679 B1VMware, Inc. · 2008
- Virtual machine change block tracking427US 9,983,936 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2018
- System and method for managing information retrievals from distributed archives351US 6,557,039 B1The Chase Manhattan Bank · 2003
- Document stream operating system319US 6,006,227 AYale University · 1999
- Double-proxy remote data access system286US 7,139,811 B2Actona Technologies Ltd. · 2006