G06F 3/067
Distributed or networked storage systems
Official title: {Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]}
G06F3/067 (Distributed or networked storage systems) appears on 16,947 US grants and 17,409 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 16,947
- Published applications
- 17,409
- Assignees
- 1,580
- Inventors
- 20,056
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 42 | 106 |
| 2003 | 59 | 179 |
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| 2020 | 1522 | 1388 |
| 2021 | 1454 | 1191 |
| 2022 | 1419 | 1169 |
| 2023 | 1251 | 1107 |
| 2024 | 1056 | 944 |
| 2025 | 883 | 699 |
| 2026 | 427 | 382 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for adaptive data partitioning within cluster systems6 Oct 2026US 12,754,682 B2Capital One Services, LLC
- Bandwidth control for storage port communications6 Oct 2026US 12,754,683 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Maintaining the benefit of parallel splitting of ops between primary and secondary storage clusters in synchronous replication while adding support for op logging and early engagement of op logging6 Oct 2026US 12,754,686 B2NetApp, Inc.
- Selective completion synchronization in P2P CXL transactions6 Oct 2026US 12,754,691 B1SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Remote direct memory access in multi-tier memory systems6 Oct 2026US 12,754,698 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Coalesced Read Request Processing For Improved Storage Device Read Capacity Utilization8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310352 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Method for managing multi-level disaggregated memory and apparatus for the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310354 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Translating Modification Instructions For Cloned Replica Data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310372 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Conversational generative ui copilot using design component libraries and intent-aware data binding8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310387 A1Pure Storage, Inc.
- Distributed memory with subsets of model weights or parameters based on inference task types8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310597 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Data storage system controlled remote data mirroring with respectively maintained data indices1,377US 5,544,347 AEMC Corporation · 1996
- Virtual ports for data transferring of a data storage system1,246US 6,421,711 B1EMC Corporation · 2002
- Intelligent virtual volume access1,162US 6,389,432 B1Auspex Systems, Inc. · 2002
- Hierarchical backup and retrieval system1,117US 7,395,282 B1Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2008
- System and method for dynamically performing storage operations in a computer network1,100US 7,246,207 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2007