G06F 7/08
Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according
Official title: Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according to the classification of at least some of the information they carry (by merging two or more sets of carriers in ordered sequence G06F7/16)
G06F7/08 (Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according) appears on 556 US grants and 636 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for processing log request, device, and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,754,904 B2Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
- Data sorting methods and apparatuses, devices, and readable storage media22 Sep 2026US 12,743,248 B2Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
- Systems, methods, computing platforms, and storage media for comparing data sets through decomposing data into a directed acyclic graph25 Aug 2026US 12,717,844 B2Unsupervised, Inc.
- Intermediate sorting for data set projection builds21 Jul 2026US 12,688,009 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Metadata journal for a storage system23 Jun 2026US 12,663,962 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Data compression for optimized error and efficiency8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310647 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Ingestion and segmentation of real-time event data17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277544 A1The Huntington National Bank
- Systems and methods for generating enhanced data metrics30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219836 A1ICE Benchmark Administration Limited
- Sorting data sets and discriminating non-differentiated database entries23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211904 A1Truist Bank
- Method for digitizing, customizing, and displaying a listing of location-based information16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203310 A1
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- Method and apparatus for archiving and visualizing digital images454US 7,970,240 B1Google Inc. · 2011
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- Cashless vending system with tethered payment interface100US 7,464,867 B1USA Technologies, Inc. · 2008
- Smart replies using an on-device model86US 10,846,618 B2Google Inc. · 2020