G06F 7/36
Combined merging and sorting
G06F7/36 (Combined merging and sorting) appears on 164 US grants and 148 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 164
- Published applications
- 148
- Assignees
- 103
- Inventors
- 380
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2021 | 9 | 10 |
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| 2023 | 8 | 6 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Append and sort accelerator22 Sep 2026US 12,743,406 B1Pliops Ltd.
- Data compression for sort/merge processing9 Jun 2026US 12,650,964 B1BMC Software, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for accelerating GNN pre-processing11 Mar 2025US 12,248,814 B2Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Adaptive compression optimization for effective pruning21 Jan 2025US 12,204,517 B2Sap SE
- Secure joining information generation system, secure joining system, methods therefor, secure computing apparatus and program3 Sep 2024US 12,079,363 B2Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Methods and systems for union combining and further manipulating data sets in a spreadsheet function2 Jul 2026US 2026/0187358 A1Adaptam Inc.
- Data merging using a single feed-forward data path between consecutive data processing stages5 Mar 2026US 2026/0064363 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Method and apparatus for accelerating gnn pre-processing12 Sep 2024US 2024/0303122 A1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technolog
- Data processing method, computer device and storage medium30 May 2024US 2024/0176585 A1
- Sorting for data-parallel computing devices9 Nov 2023US 2023/0359435 A1Google Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for resource reconciliation in an enterprise management system246US 9,137,115 B2BMC Software, Inc. · 2015
- Organizing, joining, and performing statistical calculations on massive sets of data104US 8,935,257 B1LinkedIn Corporation · 2015
- Method of sorting and compressing data101US 5,274,805 AAmalgamated Software of North America, Inc. · 1993
- Partitioning of sorted lists (containing duplicate entries) for multiprocessors sort and merge65US 6,366,911 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2002
- Partitioning of sorted lists for multiprocessors sort and merge59US 5,179,699 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1993