G06F 2212/263
Network storage
Official title: Network storage, e.g. SAN or NAS
G06F2212/263 (Network storage) appears on 400 US grants and 364 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 400
- Published applications
- 364
- Assignees
- 96
- Inventors
- 724
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 0 | 6 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 |
| 2005 | 3 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 5 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008 | 7 | 4 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 |
| 2010 | 4 | 9 |
| 2011 | 4 | 12 |
| 2012 | 11 | 12 |
| 2013 | 13 | 9 |
| 2014 | 10 | 22 |
| 2015 | 16 | 21 |
| 2016 | 26 | 14 |
| 2017 | 34 | 60 |
| 2018 | 44 | 40 |
| 2019 | 62 | 41 |
| 2020 | 41 | 24 |
| 2021 | 30 | 20 |
| 2022 | 23 | 11 |
| 2023 | 27 | 18 |
| 2024 | 18 | 14 |
| 2025 | 14 | 9 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Volume duplication using logical identifiers22 Sep 2026US 12,743,225 B2Everpure, Inc.
- Efficient iterative collective operations using a network-attached memory14 Apr 2026US 12,603,936 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Real-time analysis for dynamic storage10 Mar 2026US 12,572,275 B2NetApp, Inc.
- Techniques for improving rendering speed of avatar costumes in online virtual environments10 Mar 2026US 12,573,101 B2NetEase Information Technology Corporation
- Cache management based on storage access6 Jan 2026US 12,517,827 B2Pure Storage, Inc.
- Securing A Storage System From An Unapproved Reset17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277463 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
- Dynamic cache management relating to access count7 May 2026US 2026/0127113 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
- Dynamic recovery of control information in storage systems15 Jan 2026US 2026/0016974 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
- Persistent key-value store and journaling system8 Jan 2026US 2026/0010475 A1NetApp, Inc.
- Synchronous remote replication method and apparatus for storage system4 Dec 2025US 2025/0370884 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for secure and reliable multi-cloud data replication579US 8,762,642 B2Twinstrata, Inc · 2014
- Reducing metadata in a write-anywhere storage system331US 9,116,819 B2DataDirect Networks, Inc. · 2015
- Method and apparatus for providing high-performance and highly-scalable storage acceleration310US 9,390,019 B2Violin Memory, Inc. · 2016
- Efficient live-mount of a backed up virtual machine in a storage management system249US 9,436,555 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2016
- Safety for volume operations243US 9,436,720 B2Pure Storage, Inc. · 2016