G06F 3/0643
Management of files
Official title: {Management of files}
G06F3/0643 (Management of files) appears on 2,326 US grants and 2,329 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,326
- Published applications
- 2,329
- Assignees
- 581
- Inventors
- 3,911
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 15 | 0 |
| 1996 | 11 | 0 |
| 1997 | 11 | 0 |
| 1998 | 29 | 0 |
| 1999 | 21 | 0 |
| 2000 | 21 | 0 |
| 2001 | 21 | 5 |
| 2002 | 12 | 21 |
| 2003 | 26 | 58 |
| 2004 | 32 | 55 |
| 2005 | 27 | 76 |
| 2006 | 44 | 50 |
| 2007 | 48 | 87 |
| 2008 | 41 | 83 |
| 2009 | 53 | 49 |
| 2010 | 46 | 69 |
| 2011 | 66 | 69 |
| 2012 | 69 | 87 |
| 2013 | 68 | 79 |
| 2014 | 73 | 87 |
| 2015 | 123 | 125 |
| 2016 | 134 | 160 |
| 2017 | 175 | 230 |
| 2018 | 169 | 180 |
| 2019 | 191 | 152 |
| 2020 | 166 | 139 |
| 2021 | 170 | 126 |
| 2022 | 128 | 100 |
| 2023 | 103 | 82 |
| 2024 | 104 | 61 |
| 2025 | 73 | 70 |
| 2026 | 38 | 29 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Multi-partition file system for storing video streams in a managed non-volatile memory device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,685 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- File system cloning method and apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,717,526 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Methods and devices for file read latency reduction18 Aug 2026US 12,710,871 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Implementing coherency and page cache support for a storage system spread across multiple data centers18 Aug 2026US 12,710,900 B2Weka. IO Ltd.
- Implementing coherency and page cache support in a distributed way for files18 Aug 2026US 12,710,901 B2Weka. IO Ltd.
- Systems and methods for performing bulk file storage system actions over a network protocol1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299801 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Access to data elements within logical storage structures20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244339 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Generating a New Encoded Data Slice in Response to a Determination to Rebuild13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236167 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
- Fragmentation management for memory systems6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227905 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Data tiering in a cluster network using distributed shared logging with multiple segment allocation30 Jul 2026US 2026/0220033 A1Dell Products L. P.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System of device independent file directories using a tag between the directories and file descriptors that migrate with the files1,137US 5,333,315 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1994
- System and method for performing file-handling operations in a digital data processing system using an operating system-independent file map984US 6,161,111 AEMC Corporation · 2000
- Hierarchical data storage management411US 6,330,572 B1Imation Corp. · 2001
- Method for allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-system410US 6,038,570 ANetwork Appliance, Inc. · 2000
- Method and apparatus for improving file access performance of distributed storage system333US 8,086,634 B2Hitachi, Ltd. · 2011