G06F 16/22
Indexing
Official title: Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F16/22 (Indexing) appears on 19,347 US grants and 21,377 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 21,377
- Assignees
- 4,016
- Inventors
- 34,901
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 50 | 13 |
| 2002 | 67 | 77 |
| 2003 | 56 | 72 |
| 2004 | 64 | 113 |
| 2005 | 52 | 160 |
| 2006 | 66 | 169 |
| 2007 | 84 | 193 |
| 2008 | 92 | 263 |
| 2009 | 115 | 232 |
| 2010 | 226 | 251 |
| 2011 | 211 | 312 |
| 2012 | 273 | 436 |
| 2013 | 340 | 634 |
| 2014 | 523 | 914 |
| 2015 | 790 | 1353 |
| 2016 | 1010 | 1526 |
| 2017 | 1117 | 1660 |
| 2018 | 1155 | 1416 |
| 2019 | 1592 | 1753 |
| 2020 | 1700 | 1888 |
| 2021 | 1909 | 1924 |
| 2022 | 2075 | 1584 |
| 2023 | 1834 | 1406 |
| 2024 | 1622 | 1132 |
| 2025 | 1285 | 1013 |
| 2026 | 812 | 883 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- User-centric and LLM-enhanced adaptive ETL code synthesis6 Oct 2026US 12,754,718 B2Hitachi, Ltd.
- Universal intelligent recognition, identification, and classification of AI-processed binary large objects using a computable formal grammar6 Oct 2026US 12,754,891 B1Brillient Corporation
- Metadata page allocation by storing a portion of a bitmap of metadata pages in memory6 Oct 2026US 12,754,892 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Using condensed bitmap representation for filtering of datasets6 Oct 2026US 12,754,893 B2Workday, Inc.
- Efficiently processing vector queries, with query vectors and filters, against vector indexes6 Oct 2026US 12,754,894 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Machine learning techniques for discovering keys in relational datasets8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310634 A1Ab Initio Technology LLC
- Feature flag payload compression using dictionaries8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310635 A1Roblox Corporation
- Information proposal system and information proposal method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310646 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Data compression for optimized error and efficiency8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310647 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Data Processing Method and Apparatus, Device, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310648 A1Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for generation of user profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects2,365US 5,754,939 A1998
- System and method for scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles1,609US 5,758,257 A1998
- System for generation of object profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,475US 5,835,087 A1998
- Method and apparatus for partitioning data for storage in a database1,371US 7,080,101 B1NCR Corporation · 2006
- Pseudonymous server for system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,258US 5,754,938 A1998