G06F 8/658
Incremental updates
Official title: Incremental updates; Differential updates
G06F8/658 (Incremental updates) appears on 1,278 US grants and 1,429 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,278
- Published applications
- 1,429
- Assignees
- 442
- Inventors
- 2,846
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 0 |
| 2002 | 10 | 9 |
| 2003 | 6 | 20 |
| 2004 | 5 | 29 |
| 2005 | 8 | 46 |
| 2006 | 23 | 51 |
| 2007 | 11 | 35 |
| 2008 | 15 | 33 |
| 2009 | 34 | 34 |
| 2010 | 43 | 27 |
| 2011 | 22 | 54 |
| 2012 | 28 | 42 |
| 2013 | 48 | 32 |
| 2014 | 53 | 59 |
| 2015 | 66 | 52 |
| 2016 | 68 | 87 |
| 2017 | 80 | 69 |
| 2018 | 64 | 63 |
| 2019 | 93 | 104 |
| 2020 | 107 | 107 |
| 2021 | 112 | 135 |
| 2022 | 106 | 78 |
| 2023 | 88 | 90 |
| 2024 | 70 | 59 |
| 2025 | 61 | 67 |
| 2026 | 41 | 47 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Hot upgrade workflow process in an edge computing environment29 Sep 2026US 12,748,585 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Orchestration of software releases on a cloud platform across stagger groups29 Sep 2026US 12,748,586 B2Salesforce, Inc.
- Systems and methods for loading modified classes into a running application22 Sep 2026US 12,743,270 B2Cloud Linux Software Inc.
- Device firmware descriptors15 Sep 2026US 12,737,174 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Live firmware update switchover8 Sep 2026US 12,730,629 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Method of difference update and a system thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310448 A1Hyundai Autoever Corp.
- Enhanced over-the-air programming of power management integrated circuits24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288452 A1Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
- Agentic artificial intelligence for interactive and incremental software development17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277596 A1
- Delta based task analysis for ci systems17 Sep 2026US 2026/0278504 A1Red Hat, Inc.
- Systems and methods for intelligent provisioning dynamic, lifecycle revision, and multi-service orchestration in cloud environments27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252407 A1Quantum Integrators Group, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of upgrading a software application in the presence of user modifications2,300US 6,367,077 B1Siebel Systems, Inc. · 2002
- System and method for updating and distributing information457US 6,832,373 B2Bitfone Corporation · 2004
- System and method for upgrading client software364US 6,425,125 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2002
- Multi-tiered incremental software updating286US 6,052,531 ASymantec Corporation · 2000
- Method and system for downloading updates259US 7,716,660 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2010