G06F 2212/46
Caching storage objects of specific type in disk cache
G06F2212/46 (Caching storage objects of specific type in disk cache) appears on 1,254 US grants and 1,247 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 2212/466Metadata, control dataIndexing code547
- G06F 2212/463FileIndexing code251
- G06F 2212/465Structured objectIndexing code232
- G06F 2212/462Track or segmentIndexing code194
- G06F 2212/461Sector or disk blockIndexing code146
- G06F 2212/464Multimedia objectIndexing code51
- G06F 2212/468The specific object being partially cachedIndexing code16
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