G06F 21/126
Interacting with the operating system
Official title: {Interacting with the operating system}
G06F21/126 (Interacting with the operating system) appears on 145 US grants and 158 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 145
- Published applications
- 158
- Assignees
- 82
- Inventors
- 310
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 11 |
| 2003 | 1 | 6 |
| 2004 | 2 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 11 |
| 2007 | 4 | 1 |
| 2008 | 4 | 9 |
| 2009 | 3 | 7 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 |
| 2014 | 8 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 | 9 |
| 2016 | 9 | 7 |
| 2017 | 8 | 8 |
| 2018 | 7 | 9 |
| 2019 | 6 | 13 |
| 2020 | 8 | 10 |
| 2021 | 14 | 9 |
| 2022 | 9 | 6 |
| 2023 | 10 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 6 |
| 2025 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026 | 4 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Operating system-level assistive features for contextual privacy22 Sep 2026US 12,743,490 B2Google Inc.
- Analysing operating system configurations1 Sep 2026US 12,724,893 B2Nanyang Technological University
- Limiting a number of illegitimate interrupts from switching a central processing unit to a system management mode28 Jul 2026US 12,694,121 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Managing privilege delegation on a server device23 Jun 2026US 12,664,315 B2Avecto Limited
- Fine-grained elevation and restriction of API function calls2 Dec 2025US 12,488,083 B2Delinea Inc.
- Fine-grained elevation and restriction of api function calls13 Nov 2025US 2025/0348572 A1Delinea Inc.
- Access control to a set of apparatuses having screens3 Jul 2025US 2025/0217457 A1Universite Grenoble Alpes
- Monitoring operating system invariant information3 Apr 2025US 2025/0111041 A1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Fine-grained elevation and restriction of api function calls30 Jan 2025US 2025/0036743 A1Delinea Inc.
- Operating system-level assistive features for contextual privacy23 Jan 2025US 2025/0028793 A1Google Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for enabling trial period use of software products: method and apparatus for utilizing a decryption stub411US 5,737,416 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- System with software usage timer and counter for allowing limited use but preventing continued unauthorized use of protected software385US 5,014,234 ANCR Corporation · 1991
- Self-verifying receipt and acceptance system for electronically delivered data objects305US 4,953,209 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1990
- Computer system and process for accessing an encrypted and self-decrypting digital information product while restricting access to decrypted digital information194US 6,052,780 AOpen Security Solutions, LLC · 2000
- Method and apparatus for enabling trial period use of software products: method and apparatus for generating a machine-dependent identification181US 5,757,907 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998