G06F 3/0644
Management of space entities
Official title: {Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools}
G06F3/0644 (Management of space entities) appears on 4,676 US grants and 4,908 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 4,676
- Published applications
- 4,908
- Assignees
- 704
- Inventors
- 7,502
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 381 | 356 |
| 2024 | 360 | 294 |
| 2025 | 269 | 218 |
| 2026 | 131 | 118 |
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.
- Method for dynamic rule-based recommendation validation6 Oct 2026US 12,755,167 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Systems and methods for auto-tiered data storage for data intensive applications6 Oct 2026US 12,755,189 B2Ovh
- Sub block based storage device and method for managing sub block thereof29 Sep 2026US 12,748,540 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Volume duplication using logical identifiers22 Sep 2026US 12,743,225 B2Everpure, Inc.
- Memory allocator1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299807 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- System and method for identifying and managing related storage volumes in a backup environment24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288342 A1Eon IO, Ltd.
- Storage system and storage system control method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288357 A1Hitachi Vantara, Ltd.
- Ssd architecture supporting low latency operation24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288576 A1Kioxia Corporation
- Determining Protected Storage Capacity Utilization Based On Deduplicated Data17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277438 A1Everpure, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for automated data storage system space allocation utilizing prioritized data set parameters984US 5,491,810 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996
- Hierarchical systems and methods for providing a unified view of storage information932US 7,343,453 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2008
- Metadata for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization654US 8,850,130 B1Nutanix, Inc. · 2014
- Systems and methods for generating a storage-related metric573US 7,346,751 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2008
- Fault tolerant computer with archival rollback capabilities521US 5,325,519 ATexas Microsystems, Inc. · 1994