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G06F 16/953

Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines

Full Title

Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor > Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types > Retrieval from the web > Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines

5 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G06F 16/9532 Query formulation
  • G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
  • G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
  • G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
  • G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 76,952
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,841
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 44,778
  4. GOOGLE US 35,735
  5. INTEL CORPORATION US 32,087
  6. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 30,572
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 25,023
  8. APPLE US 23,482
  9. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 22,548
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,917