G06F 3/0686
Libraries
Official title: {Libraries, e.g. tape libraries, jukebox}
G06F3/0686 (Libraries) appears on 903 US grants and 828 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 903
- Published applications
- 828
- Assignees
- 130
- Inventors
- 1,082
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 12 | 0 |
| 1996 | 11 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 14 | 0 |
| 2000 | 16 | 0 |
| 2001 | 28 | 4 |
| 2002 | 25 | 18 |
| 2003 | 17 | 40 |
| 2004 | 24 | 42 |
| 2005 | 33 | 37 |
| 2006 | 23 | 51 |
| 2007 | 21 | 33 |
| 2008 | 30 | 36 |
| 2009 | 25 | 45 |
| 2010 | 45 | 21 |
| 2011 | 41 | 39 |
| 2012 | 32 | 50 |
| 2013 | 42 | 42 |
| 2014 | 53 | 45 |
| 2015 | 58 | 38 |
| 2016 | 49 | 49 |
| 2017 | 49 | 50 |
| 2018 | 47 | 44 |
| 2019 | 42 | 29 |
| 2020 | 30 | 18 |
| 2021 | 33 | 21 |
| 2022 | 23 | 27 |
| 2023 | 20 | 35 |
| 2024 | 16 | 8 |
| 2025 | 9 | 5 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Locating virtual tape file systems on a virtual tape emulator4 Aug 2026US 12,699,579 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Narrowing reposition search area in a tape directory region28 Apr 2026US 12,613,635 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- Writing and reading data sets to and from cloud storage for legacy mainframe applications24 Mar 2026US 12,585,406 B2BMC Software, Inc.
- Data storage library with service mode for protecting data storage drives23 Dec 2025US 12,504,795 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Systems and methods for memory representation and management25 Nov 2025US 12,481,588 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Cloud storage for excp-based mainframe applications28 May 2026US 2026/0147506 A1BMC Software, Inc.
- Aggregated control of removable digital storage media using a triplex data structuring system20 Nov 2025US 2025/0355599 A1Echoleaf Systems, Inc.
- System and Method for Provisioning a Cloud Tape Library18 Sep 2025US 2025/0291520 A1Geyser Data, Inc.
- Data Access Method and System19 Jun 2025US 2025/0199715 A1Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Tape drive repositioning5 Jun 2025US 2025/0181261 A1International Business Machines Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mass data storage and retrieval system997US 5,504,873 AE-Systems, Inc. · 1996
- Network attached virtual data storage subsystem971US 6,658,526 B2Storage Technology Corporation · 2003
- Media element library with non-overlapping subset of media elements and non-overlapping subset of media element drives accessible to first host and unaccessible to second host963US 6,328,766 B1Overland Data, Inc. · 2001
- Hierarchical systems and methods for providing a unified view of storage information932US 7,343,453 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2008
- Method and system for grouping storage system components818US 7,500,053 B1CommvVault Systems, Inc. · 2009