G06F 9/4411
Configuring for operating with peripheral devices
Official title: {Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers}
G06F9/4411 (Configuring for operating with peripheral devices) appears on 3,861 US grants and 4,082 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 3,861
- Published applications
- 4,082
- Assignees
- 1,037
- Inventors
- 8,190
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 90 | 108 |
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.
- Port configuration method, component, and hard disk expansion apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,743 B2Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
- Fast method for creating multi-node clusters15 Sep 2026US 12,737,192 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Apparatus, device, method, and computer program for a computer system15 Sep 2026US 12,737,193 B2Intel Corporation
- Method for reusing identifiers to improve performance of open and close input/output requests for client drive redirection1 Sep 2026US 12,724,629 B2Omnissa, LLC
- Device with data processing engine array that enables partial reconfiguration1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300216 A1Xilinx, Inc.
- Early display activation using buffer memory of accelerated processor24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288477 A1ATI Technologies ULC
- Systems and methods for patching devices within an operational technology (ot) network10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267630 A1Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
- Storage management in a firmware framework10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267658 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Device configuration method, electronic apparatus and computer-readable storage medium10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267659 A1Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Home audio/video network with two level device control1,918US 6,032,202 ASony Corporation of Japan · 2000
- Metadevice driver rename/exchange technique for a computer system incorporating a plurality of independent device drivers1,433US 5,802,364 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1998
- Device access and control using embedded web access functionality575US 6,139,177 AHewlett-Packard Company · 2000
- Method of programming the default cable interface software in an indicia reading device490US 8,868,802 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014
- Method of programming the default cable interface software in an indicia reading device481US 9,047,098 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2015