G06F 16/58
Retrieval characterised by using metadata
Official title: Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
G06F16/58 (Retrieval characterised by using metadata) appears on 9,489 US grants and 11,472 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 9,489
- Published applications
- 11,472
- Assignees
- 2,582
- Inventors
- 18,696
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 32 | 35 |
| 2002 | 53 | 144 |
| 2003 | 72 | 129 |
| 2004 | 71 | 142 |
| 2005 | 76 | 169 |
| 2006 | 106 | 231 |
| 2007 | 103 | 228 |
| 2008 | 105 | 334 |
| 2009 | 126 | 327 |
| 2010 | 217 | 331 |
| 2011 | 196 | 362 |
| 2012 | 289 | 390 |
| 2013 | 368 | 458 |
| 2014 | 451 | 672 |
| 2015 | 548 | 802 |
| 2016 | 614 | 803 |
| 2017 | 682 | 879 |
| 2018 | 644 | 804 |
| 2019 | 791 | 799 |
| 2020 | 768 | 767 |
| 2021 | 709 | 654 |
| 2022 | 591 | 552 |
| 2023 | 561 | 493 |
| 2024 | 526 | 419 |
| 2025 | 385 | 319 |
| 2026 | 205 | 229 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System to generate contextual queries6 Oct 2026US 12,754,962 B2Snap Inc.
- System and method for policy enforcement6 Oct 2026US 12,754,981 B2Google Inc.
- Image restoration method and apparatus, device, medium and product6 Oct 2026US 12,755,346 B2Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Methods and systems for tracking contexts6 Oct 2026US 12,755,536 B2Apple Inc.
- Cognitive image searching based on personalized image components of a composite image29 Sep 2026US 12,748,803 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Operating system state context management8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310693 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Scalable Scaffolding and Bundled Data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300323 A1Thinkspan, LLC
- Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300382 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Systems and Methods for Communicating Vehicle-Related Image Data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300393 A1Geotab Inc.
- System and Methods for Relative Representation of Spatial Objects and Disambiguation in an Interface24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287888 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Local-remote apparatus with specialized image storage modules1,600US 5,321,816 AUnisys Corporation · 1994
- Tagging digital media909US 7,945,653 B2Facebook, Inc. · 2011
- Generation, archiving, and retrieval of digital images with evoked suggestion-set captions and natural language interface765US 5,493,677 ASystems Research & Applications Corporation · 1996
- Image query system and method665US 5,579,471 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996
- Image file storage and retrieval system648US 5,761,655 AAlphatronix · 1998