G06F 40/137
Hierarchical processing
Official title: Hierarchical processing, e.g. outlines
G06F40/137 (Hierarchical processing) appears on 636 US grants and 796 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2024 | 40 | 34 |
| 2025 | 29 | 29 |
| 2026 | 22 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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- Data processing method to provide a generalized link from a reference point in an on-line book to an arbitrary multimedia object which can be dynamically updated274US 5,367,621 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1994