G06F 16/955
Using information identifiers
Official title: using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
G06F16/955 (Using information identifiers) appears on 9,843 US grants and 11,807 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 9,843
- Published applications
- 11,807
- Assignees
- 2,872
- Inventors
- 18,076
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 441 | 363 |
| 2026 | 227 | 234 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for information processing6 Oct 2026US 12,754,884 B2Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- On-device accessibility options for checkout data using short-range wireless transmissions6 Oct 2026US 12,755,269 B2Paypal, Inc.
- System and method for conducting commerce through a virtual store using assigned unique identifiers6 Oct 2026US 12,755,314 B2Omega Ortega
- Advertisement display system and associated methods29 Sep 2026US 12,748,808 B2AdMarketplace
- Container image storage inside database for secured and optimized code execution29 Sep 2026US 12,748,810 B2Snowflake Inc.
- System and method for url fetching retry mechanism8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310740 A1Bright Data Ltd.
- Auto-generation of conference URL8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311080 A1Block, Inc.
- Automated framework for managing process controls to improve system performance8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311095 A1T-Mobile USA, Inc.
- Website link extraction method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300611 A1Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- System and Methods for Using Enhanced QR Codes in a Call to Action1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300918 A1Taptext LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Interactive advisory system1,220US 6,980,909 B2WeatherBank, Inc. · 2005
- Online service development tool with fee setting capabilities1,195US 5,819,092 AVermeer Technologies, Inc. · 1998
- Methods for surveying dissemination of proprietary empirical data1,132US 5,862,260 ADigimarc Corporation · 1999
- Computer system linked by using information in data objects1,131US 6,122,403 ADigimarc Corporation · 2000
- System and method for using an ordinary article of commerce to access a remote computer1,117US 8,131,597 B2NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. · 2012