Text processing (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40)

Introduced: January 2020

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: Text processing

CPC: Text processing (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Handling natural language data > Text processing

CPC:

Handling natural language data (speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L) > Text processing (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40)

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 7 subcodes exist in both systems.

2 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 2020.

Child Classifications

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G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191) since 2020 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities since 2020 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting since 2020 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06F 40/189 Automatic justification since 2020 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06F 40/191 Automatic line break hyphenation since 2020 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06F 40/194 Calculation of difference between files since 2020 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06F 40/197 Version control (for software G06F8/71) since 2020 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