G06F 9/445
Program loading or initiating
Official title: Program loading or initiating (bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57)
G06F9/445 (Program loading or initiating) appears on 14,277 US grants and 16,113 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 14,277
- Published applications
- 16,113
- Assignees
- 3,154
- Inventors
- 32,529
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 37 | 0 |
| 1998 | 82 | 0 |
| 1999 | 69 | 0 |
| 2000 | 104 | 0 |
| 2001 | 114 | 38 |
| 2002 | 106 | 180 |
| 2003 | 118 | 259 |
| 2004 | 132 | 254 |
| 2005 | 124 | 320 |
| 2006 | 190 | 329 |
| 2007 | 168 | 332 |
| 2008 | 185 | 406 |
| 2009 | 230 | 355 |
| 2010 | 297 | 381 |
| 2011 | 273 | 369 |
| 2012 | 346 | 484 |
| 2013 | 462 | 588 |
| 2014 | 583 | 712 |
| 2015 | 724 | 818 |
| 2016 | 763 | 880 |
| 2017 | 816 | 906 |
| 2018 | 779 | 897 |
| 2019 | 988 | 1163 |
| 2020 | 1152 | 1125 |
| 2021 | 1106 | 1113 |
| 2022 | 1065 | 1035 |
| 2023 | 1036 | 1001 |
| 2024 | 916 | 883 |
| 2025 | 779 | 698 |
| 2026 | 405 | 587 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 9/44505Configuring for program initiating6,969
- G06F 9/44521Dynamic linking or loading3,384
- G06F 9/44536Selecting among different versions664
- G06F 9/44589Program code verification457
- G06F 9/44568Immediately runnable code338
- G06F 9/44557Code layout in executable memory306
- G06F 9/44552Conflict resolution, i.e. enabling coexistence of conflicting executables176
- G06F 9/44594Unloading150
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- Policy driven provision and deployment of an application8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310433 A1Siements Aktiengesellschaft
- Systems and methods for machine learning-based configuration, repair, and execution of software code using log analysis and prior configuration reuse8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310470 A1Constructor Education and Research Genossenschaft
- Providing access to computing devices of an information handling system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310570 A1Dell Products L. P.
- System and method for automated end-to-end computational reproducibility auditing of scientific research8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310883 A1The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and system for efficient delivery and deployment of an application2,280US 6,393,605 B1Siebel Systems, Inc. · 2002
- Methods and apparatus for interpreting user selections in the context of a relation distributed as a set of orthogonalized sub-relations2,174US 6,549,908 B1Siebel Systems, Inc. · 2003
- Automatic configuration for internet access device763US 6,012,088 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000
- Secure system for activating personal computer software at remote locations673US 5,222,134 ATau Systems Corporation · 1993
- Payment application lifecycle management in a contactless smart card667US 8,196,131 B1Google Inc. · 2012