G06F 40/12
Use of codes for handling textual entities
G06F40/12 (Use of codes for handling textual entities) appears on 11,153 US grants and 13,420 published applications in this corpus.
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Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 40/14Tree-structured documents5,610
- G06F 40/151Transformation2,350
- G06F 40/134Hyperlinking2,258
- G06F 40/131Fragmentation of text files1,095
- G06F 40/126Character encoding960
- G06F 40/123Storage facilities649
- G06F 40/137Hierarchical processing636
- G06F 40/149Adaptation of the text data for streaming purposes200
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