CPC Main Group
G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
9 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
- G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
- G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data (document management systems G06F16/93)
- G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data (retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70)
- G06F 16/50 of still image data
- G06F 16/60 of audio data
- G06F 16/70 of video data
- G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML (content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95)
- G06F 16/90 Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 76,952
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,841
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 44,778
- GOOGLE US 35,735
- INTEL CORPORATION US 32,087
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 30,572
- TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 25,023
- APPLE US 23,482
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 22,548
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,917