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
- 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