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IPC Subgroup
G06F 8/7

Software maintenance or management

Introduced: January 2018

Full Title

Arrangements for software engineering > Software maintenance or management

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
Subclass:
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING

7 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G06F 8/71 Version control; 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

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
  4. GOOGLE US 32,969
  5. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
  6. INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
  8. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
  9. APPLE US 21,891
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505