G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
Introduced: January 2019
Additional Content IPC
Configuration management, in particular source code databases Searching in source code databases Error recovery, backup, mirroring Access control or security in information retrieval systems and repositories; Anonymising queries and database content CAD database applications Business, financial and administrative related applications Image analysis Scenes; Scene-specific elements Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data Musical instruments; music analysis Speech analysis Biological applications Chemical applications Medical applications Code conversion and compression Network protocols, addressing and routing Telephone directories in telephonic communication systems Digital picture intermediate information storage TV guides, electronic programme guides, video distribution, interactive television, VOD (video on demand)
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.
3 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
IPC defines codes here since 2019.
Child Classifications
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- G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data (document management systems G06F16/93) since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- 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) since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- 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) since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06F 16/90 Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class G06,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
- GOOGLE US 32,969
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
- INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
- TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
- APPLE US 21,891
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505
Top Applicants (CPC)
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