G06F 9/4406
Loading of operating system
Official title: {Loading of operating system}
G06F9/4406 (Loading of operating system) appears on 2,661 US grants and 2,900 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,661
- Published applications
- 2,900
- Assignees
- 703
- Inventors
- 5,491
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2003 | 23 | 69 |
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| 2011 | 32 | 70 |
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| 2022 | 196 | 153 |
| 2023 | 183 | 165 |
| 2024 | 167 | 120 |
| 2025 | 104 | 104 |
| 2026 | 57 | 94 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Bios-initialization-based capabilities configuration system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,742 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Trust zone attestation for secure loading of service OS6 Oct 2026US 12,755,022 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Systems and methods for updating witness sleds15 Sep 2026US 12,737,124 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Systems and methods to prioritize loading of agent and plugins during subsequent boot time of information handling system15 Sep 2026US 12,737,191 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Fast method for creating multi-node clusters15 Sep 2026US 12,737,192 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Managing error correction for a data processing system using a management controller24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288587 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Database system with computing node level dual operating systems24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288726 A1Ocient Inc.
- Managing access to data using a management controller of a data processing system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288989 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Systems and methods of transitioning coprocessors between boot environments10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267657 A1QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.
- System running method and terminal apparatus3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259741 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Digital rights management operating system562US 6,330,670 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2001
- Loading and identifying a digital rights management operating system488US 6,327,652 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2001
- Automatic development of operating system boot image414US 5,325,532 ACompaq Computer Corporation · 1994
- Screen icon manipulation by context and frequency of Use344US 8,972,878 B2Avaya Inc. · 2015
- Method and apparatus for remote installation of an operating system over a network connection341US 6,963,981 B1Akamai Technologies, Inc. · 2005