G06F 9/485
Task life-cycle
Official title: {Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution (G06F9/4881 takes precedence)}
G06F9/485 (Task life-cycle) appears on 4,536 US grants and 5,309 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 4,536
- Published applications
- 5,309
- Assignees
- 1,005
- Inventors
- 11,311
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 8 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 16 | 0 |
| 2001 | 14 | 7 |
| 2002 | 19 | 28 |
| 2003 | 15 | 42 |
| 2004 | 18 | 56 |
| 2005 | 33 | 66 |
| 2006 | 34 | 91 |
| 2007 | 38 | 117 |
| 2008 | 38 | 107 |
| 2009 | 51 | 111 |
| 2010 | 85 | 135 |
| 2011 | 94 | 114 |
| 2012 | 134 | 144 |
| 2013 | 151 | 205 |
| 2014 | 179 | 250 |
| 2015 | 217 | 280 |
| 2016 | 299 | 264 |
| 2017 | 330 | 284 |
| 2018 | 238 | 291 |
| 2019 | 305 | 433 |
| 2020 | 391 | 392 |
| 2021 | 379 | 403 |
| 2022 | 383 | 382 |
| 2023 | 338 | 328 |
| 2024 | 318 | 270 |
| 2025 | 245 | 251 |
| 2026 | 144 | 258 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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
- Hot upgrade workflow process in an edge computing environment29 Sep 2026US 12,748,585 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Supervised execution of software applications on vehicle computing devices29 Sep 2026US 12,748,602 B2Zoox, Inc.
- Discovery and inventory control for remote resource integration with cloud services29 Sep 2026US 12,748,605 B2Oracle International Corporation
- 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.
- Metadata Driven Application Placement In Distributed Storage Environments8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310673 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Method and system for streaming transmission1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299996 A1Wistron Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Man machine interface446US 4,570,217 A1986
- Methods and systems for assigning access control levels in providing access to resources via virtual machines398US 7,954,150 B2Citrix Systems, Inc. · 2011
- Prioritized co-processor resource manager and method383US 5,748,468 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1998