G06F 9/48
Program initiating
Official title: Program initiating; Program switching, e.g. by interrupt
G06F9/48 (Program initiating) appears on 18,150 US grants and 20,546 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 1138 | 1188 |
| 2026 | 748 | 1134 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Parallel bootstrap and materialization with intelligent resolution6 Oct 2026US 12,754,740 B2Intuit Inc.
- Interrupt handling6 Oct 2026US 12,754,760 B2BlackBerry Limited
- Workflow orchestration based on idempotent activities and read-only activities6 Oct 2026US 12,754,761 B1Stripe, Inc.
- Migrating data based on user experience as a service when developing and deploying a cloud-based solution6 Oct 2026US 12,754,762 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Method and system for identifying a task sequence from an interaction stream6 Oct 2026US 12,754,763 B2Edgeverve Systems Limited
- Thermal awareness extension for operating system task scheduler8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310488 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Delay operations in processor cores for power improvements8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310489 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Invalidating memory contents after patching software8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310490 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Display method, electronic device, and readable medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310491 A1Honor Device Co., Ltd.
- Process Launch Constraints8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310492 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Techniques for managing multiple threads in a browser environment2,192US 6,728,960 B1Siebel Systems, Inc. · 2004
- Globally distributed utility computing cloud724US 8,429,630 B2CA, Inc. · 2013
- Architecture for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment668US 8,601,473 B1Nutanix, Inc. · 2013
- Systems and methods of ensuring and maintaining equipment viability for a task643US 10,163,065 B1Nmetric, LLC · 2018
- Computing in parallel processing environments463US 8,738,860 B1Tilera Corporation · 2014