G06F 16/31
Indexing
Official title: Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F16/31 (Indexing) appears on 4,050 US grants and 4,511 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 4,050
- Published applications
- 4,511
- Assignees
- 1,318
- Inventors
- 8,959
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 250 | 247 |
| 2024 | 274 | 201 |
| 2025 | 219 | 173 |
| 2026 | 120 | 159 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Configurable, streaming hybrid-analytics platform6 Oct 2026US 12,754,936 B2Ankura Consulting Group, LLC
- Document processing and retrieval for knowledge-based question answering6 Oct 2026US 12,754,942 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Server, method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for searching for vector29 Sep 2026US 12,748,795 B2
- Automatically generating models for data flow analysis using machine learning22 Sep 2026US 12,743,275 B1Black Duck Software, Inc.
- Fuzzy matching natural language query from user specific metadata22 Sep 2026US 12,743,454 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Systems and Methods for Generating Metadata and Storing the Metadata in a Repository8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310690 A1Veeva Systems Inc.
- Indexing Access Limited Native Applications8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310738 A1Google Inc.
- Information processing apparatus and information processing method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300330 A1Hitachi, Ltd.
- In-place e-mail procurement and archive system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300331 A1ZL Technologies Inc.
- Systems and Methods for Creating and Delivering Augmented Reality Content1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300405 A1ImagineAR Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Data transmission over the internet using a cache memory file system1,027US 5,950,205 ACisco Technology, Inc. · 1999
- Information retrieval by natural language querying847US 6,601,026 B2Discern Communications, Inc. · 2003
- Multilingual document retrieval system and method using semantic vector matching787US 6,006,221 ASyracuse University · 1999
- Machine data web781US 7,937,344 B2Splunk Inc. · 2011
- Method and system for offline indexing of content and classifying stored data745US 8,170,995 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2012