CPC Subgroup
G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
Full Title
Arrangements for software engineering (testing or debugging G06F11/36; administrative, planning or organisation aspects of software project management G06Q10/06) > Software maintenance or management
8 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G06F 8/71 Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management
- G06F 8/72 Code refactoring
- G06F 8/73 Program documentation
- G06F 8/74 Reverse engineering; Extracting design information from source code
- G06F 8/75 Structural analysis for program understanding
- G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting
- G06F 8/77 Software metrics
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