G06F 16/316
Indexing structures
Official title: {Indexing structures}
G06F16/316 (Indexing structures) appears on 1,856 US grants and 1,959 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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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.
- In-place e-mail procurement and archive system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300331 A1ZL Technologies Inc.
- Hybrid tiered storage for cloud platforms1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300412 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Method and system for addressing the problem of discovering relevant services and applications that are available over the internet or other communcations network24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288770 A1Sensoriant, 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
- 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
- Keyword searches of structured databases624US 6,094,649 APartnet, Inc. · 2000
- Multidimensional data clustering and dimension reduction for indexing and searching508US 6,122,628 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000