G06F 3/0665
At area level
Official title: {at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes}
G06F3/0665 (At area level) appears on 4,220 US grants and 4,174 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 4,220
- Published applications
- 4,174
- Assignees
- 475
- Inventors
- 5,639
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 7 |
| 2002 | 12 | 23 |
| 2003 | 12 | 41 |
| 2004 | 25 | 32 |
| 2005 | 23 | 69 |
| 2006 | 69 | 115 |
| 2007 | 48 | 98 |
| 2008 | 80 | 90 |
| 2009 | 70 | 104 |
| 2010 | 83 | 110 |
| 2011 | 93 | 140 |
| 2012 | 104 | 182 |
| 2013 | 150 | 162 |
| 2014 | 240 | 224 |
| 2015 | 283 | 368 |
| 2016 | 351 | 376 |
| 2017 | 375 | 383 |
| 2018 | 366 | 324 |
| 2019 | 440 | 281 |
| 2020 | 329 | 226 |
| 2021 | 263 | 177 |
| 2022 | 244 | 199 |
| 2023 | 206 | 156 |
| 2024 | 159 | 135 |
| 2025 | 121 | 94 |
| 2026 | 62 | 58 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Container data sharing via external memory device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,558 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Apparatuses and methods for simultaneous in data path compute operations22 Sep 2026US 12,743,206 B2
- Volume duplication using logical identifiers22 Sep 2026US 12,743,225 B2Everpure, Inc.
- Updating RAID protection based on storage system characteristics8 Sep 2026US 12,730,718 B2Everpure, Inc.
- Controller for controlling non-volatile semiconductor memory and method of controlling non-volatile semiconductor memory8 Sep 2026US 12,730,748 B2Kioxia Corporation
- Coalesced Read Request Processing For Improved Storage Device Read Capacity Utilization8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310352 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Information processing apparatus and information processing method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299814 A1Hitachi Vantara, Ltd.
- Storage system and storage system control method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288357 A1Hitachi Vantara, Ltd.
- Methods and Allocators for Allocating Portions of a Storage Unit Using Virtual Partitioning17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277456 A1Imagination Technologies Limited
- Securing A Storage System From An Unapproved Reset17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277463 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for grouping storage system components818US 7,500,053 B1CommvVault Systems, Inc. · 2009
- Metadata for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization654US 8,850,130 B1Nutanix, Inc. · 2014
- Methods and system of pooling storage devices652US 7,809,914 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2010
- Techniques for enforcing capacity restrictions of an allocation policy571US 8,566,546 B1EMC Corporation · 2013
- Efficient read/write algorithms and associated mapping for block-level data reduction processes455US 8,140,821 B1EMC Corporation · 2012