IPC Subgroup
G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
Introduced: January 2020
Full Title
Handling natural language data > Text processing > Use of codes for handling textual entities
Classification Context
- Section:
- PHYSICS
- Class:
- COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
- Subclass:
- ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
9 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
- G06F 40/126 Character encoding
- G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
- G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
- G06F 40/137 Hierarchical processing, e.g. outlines
- G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents
- G06F 40/149 Adaptation of the text data for streaming purposes, e.g. Efficient XML Interchange [EXI] format
- G06F 40/151 Transformation
- G06F 40/163 Handling of whitespace
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor 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