← Capabilities
- International families
- 92k2015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States1.2× the next
- All families
- 626khome filings included
- Over five years
- Steady2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families by country of origin and the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in. International families are those for which protection was sought beyond one country.
Volume
International patent families in the capability, by the year of the earliest filing.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Share by country
Each country's share of the year's international families, in per cent: the capability's five largest countries of origin, 2015 to 2024, and the rest of the world.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Country leaderboard
International patent families, 2015 to 2024, by country of origin. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.
Ten largest
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Taiwan
Cayman Islands
28,809
23,945
12,592
7,266
3,037
1,724
1,526
1,434
1,419
1,186
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 28,809 | 31.3% | 0.8× | 82,973 | |
| 2 | China | 23,945 | 26.0% | 1.3× | 454,570 | |
| 3 | Japan | 12,592 | 13.7% | 0.8× | 25,665 | |
| 4 | South Korea | 7,266 | 7.9% | 1.4× | 30,772 | |
| 5 | Germany | 3,037 | 3.3% | 1.1× | 6,035 | |
| 6 | Canada | 1,724 | 1.9% | 1.0× | 2,807 | |
| 7 | France | 1,526 | 1.7% | 0.8× | 2,125 | |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 1,434 | 1.6% | 0.7× | 2,054 | |
| 9 | Taiwan | 1,419 | 1.5% | 0.8× | 3,093 | |
| 10 | Cayman Islands | 1,186 | 1.3% | 0.2× | 1,280 | |
| 11 | India | 1,085 | 1.2% | 0.9× | 1,865 | |
| 12 | Switzerland | 861 | 0.9% | 0.9× | 1,237 | |
| 13 | Singapore | 841 | 0.9% | 2.4× | 1,116 | |
| 14 | Israel | 770 | 0.8% | 0.7× | 1,522 | |
| 15 | Sweden | 759 | 0.8% | 0.9× | 921 | |
| 16 | Netherlands | 644 | 0.7% | 0.6× | 928 | |
| 17 | Australia | 566 | 0.6% | 0.6× | 969 | |
| 18 | Ireland | 510 | 0.6% | 0.5× | 942 | |
| 19 | Finland | 497 | 0.5% | 0.7× | 574 | |
| 20 | Russia | 405 | 0.4% | 0.5× | 679 | |
| 21 | Hong Kong | 247 | 0.3% | 0.3× | 331 | |
| 22 | Italy | 193 | 0.2% | 0.8× | 332 | |
| 23 | Türkiye | 184 | 0.2% | 2.3× | 657 | |
| 24 | Spain | 135 | 0.1% | 0.8× | 178 | |
| 25 | Belgium | 134 | 0.1% | 0.8× | 170 | |
| 26 | Denmark | 102 | 0.1% | 1.7× | 126 | |
| 27 | Austria | 96 | 0.1% | 1.0× | 107 | |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia | 90 | 0.1% | 1.3× | 158 | |
| 29 | New Zealand | 80 | 0.1% | 3.7× | 90 | |
| 30 | Brazil | 60 | 0.1% | 0.7× | 197 | |
| 31 | Malaysia | 59 | 0.1% | 0.4× | 74 | |
| 32 | Luxembourg | 49 | 0.1% | 0.4× | 58 | |
| 33 | Norway | 48 | 0.1% | 0.5× | 56 | |
| 34 | Poland | 48 | 0.1% | 0.7× | 87 | |
| 35 | Portugal | 48 | 0.1% | 1.8× | 62 | |
| 36 | South Africa | 27 | 0.0% | 0.4× | 33 | |
| 37 | Hungary | 22 | 0.0% | 0.6× | 32 | |
| 38 | Mexico | 20 | 0.0% | 0.5× | 59 | |
| 39 | Czechia | 19 | 0.0% | 0.3× | 66 | |
| 40 | Liechtenstein | 2 | 0.0% | 1.0× | 2 |
Applicants
The largest applicants by international patent families, 2015 to 2024: across the world, then within each of the five countries with the most families in Data Resources. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
91,977 international families
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC · United States
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD · China
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD · South Korea
GOOGLE LLC · United States
PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD · China
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD · China
3,292
2,782
2,028
1,824
1,797
1,606
United States
28,809 international families
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
GOOGLE LLC
IBM
GOOGLE INC
INTEL CORP
ORACLE INT CORP
3,263
1,818
1,346
1,186
527
522
China
23,945 international families
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD
TENCENT TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD
BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
ZTE CORP
2,693
1,797
1,117
944
885
781
Japan
12,592 international families
FUJITSU LTD
HITACHI LTD
NEC CORP
CANON KK
NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE
TOYOTA MOTOR CORP
1,198
923
843
663
663
629
South Korea
7,266 international families
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
COUPANG CORP
ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST
LG ELECTRONICS INC
HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
NAVER CORP
2,005
406
278
220
196
187
Germany
3,037 international families
SIEMENS AG
SAP SE
BOSCH GMBH ROBERT
ROBERT BOSCH CO LTD
SIEMENS LTD CHINA
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
611
427
380
120
93
91
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Data Resources, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.
Critical Technology
Protective Cybersecurity Technologies
14.9% shared · 22,016 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
24,476
15,698
8,691
6,051
4,461
Critical Technology
Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies
12.4% shared · 17,970 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
20,167
13,819
8,702
6,734
3,966
Strategic Infrastructure
AI Tools & Applications
11.4% shared · 32,739 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
59,104
48,655
39,220
27,537
12,086
Production & Innovation
Digital Economy Adoption
11.0% shared · 16,346 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
21,362
15,584
10,966
7,828
2,749
Critical Technology
Applied AI & Advanced Analytics
10.9% shared · 29,265 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
52,577
44,684
37,272
22,879
11,142
Critical Technology
Machine Learning & Foundation Models
8.7% shared · 15,995 families in both
United States
China
South Korea
Japan
Germany
32,358
20,768
15,108
13,257
5,948
Strategic Infrastructure
Data Centres, Compute & Cloud
7.5% shared · 11,255 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
23,300
14,719
7,822
4,889
3,301
Production & Innovation
Services Economy
6.8% shared · 11,099 families in both
United States
Japan
South Korea
China
Germany
24,048
16,321
11,491
8,566
3,398
Information & Influence
International Media & Broadcasting
6.3% shared · 7,987 families in both
China
United States
Japan
South Korea
France
11,427
11,259
6,437
6,383
1,042
Crosswalk
How Data Resources is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 390 Cooperative entries in all. A patent family counts when any of its codes, in either scheme and at any office, falls under one of them. Codes since retired are placed under the entries that replaced them.
| Entry | Title in the scheme | Why it is chosen | CPC codes | IPC codes | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G06F16/00 | Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor | Databases, file systems and information retrieval | 703 | 133 | 3,493,192 |
| H04L61/45 | Network directories; Name-to-address mapping | Network directories and domain name resolution | 15 | 11 | 71,425 |
| H04L61/30 | Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames | Managing network names, including domain registration | 6 | 3 | 16,804 |
| G06F21/62 | Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules | Controlling access to data and protecting personal data | 11 | 1 | 290,158 |
CPC and IPC codes are the codes in use on patent documents, at any office, that fall under the entry. Documents is the larger of the two schemes' counts of documents carrying one of them. An entry with no IPC codes can be told apart only in the Cooperative scheme.
The Cooperative codes in use that count towards Data Resources: 735 codes on 3,871,579 documents. The 150 most used are listed; the full list is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G06F16/9535 | Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 121,233 |
| G06F16/27 | Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 85,991 |
| G06F16/951 | Indexing; Web crawling techniques | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 82,898 |
| G06F16/29 | Geographical information databases | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 82,412 |
| G06F21/6218 | Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database | G06F21/62 | In the scheme | 81,175 |
| G06F21/6245 | Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes | G06F21/62 | In the scheme | 75,891 |
| G06F16/958 | Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 50,470 |
| G06F16/35 | Clustering; Classification | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 50,143 |
| G06F16/3329 | Natural language query formulation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 48,463 |
| G06F16/248 | Presentation of query results | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 45,376 |
| G06F16/3344 | Query execution using natural language analysis | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 41,698 |
| G06F16/9024 | Graphs; Linked lists | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 39,984 |
| G06F16/285 | Clustering or classification | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 39,489 |
| G06F16/9537 | Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 38,008 |
| G06F16/215 | Improving data quality; Data cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 37,134 |
| G06F16/367 | Ontology | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 36,192 |
| G06F16/00 | Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 36,146 |
| G06F16/2282 | Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 36,076 |
| H04L61/4511 | Network directories; Name-to-address mapping using standardised directories; using standardised directory access protocols using domain name system [DNS] | H04L61/45 | In the scheme | 35,473 |
| G06F16/9538 | Presentation of query results | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 33,831 |
| G06F16/2365 | Ensuring data consistency and integrity | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 33,609 |
| G06F16/24578 | Query processing with adaptation to user needs using ranking | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 33,550 |
| G06F16/23 | Updating | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 32,327 |
| G06F16/93 | Document management systems | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 31,379 |
| G06F21/62 | Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules | G06F21/62 | In the scheme | 30,422 |
| G06F16/22 | Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 29,610 |
| G06F16/2379 | Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 29,065 |
| G06F16/2455 | Query execution | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 28,813 |
| G06F16/955 | Retrieval from the web using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 28,139 |
| G06F16/258 | Data format conversion from or to a database | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 27,987 |
| G06F21/6209 | Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself | G06F21/62 | In the scheme | 27,574 |
| G06F16/583 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 27,100 |
| G06F16/9577 | Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 26,192 |
| G06F16/284 | Relational databases | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 25,960 |
| G06F16/245 | Query processing | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 25,771 |
| G06F16/252 | Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems between a Database Management System and a front-end application | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 25,172 |
| G06F16/25 | Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 23,783 |
| G06F16/957 | Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 23,644 |
| G06F16/51 | Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 23,373 |
| G06F21/6227 | Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries | G06F21/62 | In the scheme | 23,184 |
| G06F16/182 | Distributed file systems | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 22,062 |
| G06F16/9536 | Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 21,276 |
| G06F21/6254 | Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification | G06F21/62 | In the scheme | 20,828 |
| G06F16/953 | Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 20,406 |
| G06F16/9574 | Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation of access to content, e.g. by caching | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 20,166 |
| G06F16/906 | Clustering; Classification | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 19,845 |
| G06F16/2465 | Query processing support for facilitating data mining operations in structured databases | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 19,440 |
| G06F16/26 | Visual data mining; Browsing structured data | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 19,306 |
| G06F16/2228 | Indexing structures | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 19,283 |
| G06F16/2462 | Approximate or statistical queries | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 19,087 |
| G06F16/335 | Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 18,929 |
| G06F16/13 | File access structures, e.g. distributed indices | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 18,659 |
| G06F16/254 | Extract, transform and load [ETL] procedures, e.g. ETL data flows in data warehouses | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 18,561 |
| G06F16/21 | Design, administration or maintenance of databases | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 17,809 |
| G06F16/2246 | Trees, e.g. B+trees | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 17,600 |
| G06F16/353 | Clustering; Classification into predefined classes | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 17,159 |
| G06F16/90335 | Query processing | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 16,979 |
| G06F16/338 | Presentation of query results | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 16,655 |
| G06F16/24552 | Database cache management | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 16,626 |
| G06F16/9566 | URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 16,120 |
| G06F16/283 | Multi-dimensional databases or data warehouses, e.g. MOLAP or ROLAP | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 16,077 |
| G06F16/904 | Browsing; Visualisation therefor | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 15,333 |
| G06F16/9038 | Presentation of query results | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 15,279 |
| G06F16/16 | File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 15,224 |
| G06F16/40 | Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 14,810 |
| G06F16/48 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 14,729 |
| G06F16/2358 | Change logging, detection, and notification | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 14,640 |
| G06F16/954 | Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 14,390 |
| G06F16/5866 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 14,304 |
| G06F16/2457 | Query processing with adaptation to user needs | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 14,204 |
| G06F16/9035 | Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 14,112 |
| G06F16/58 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 14,033 |
| G06F16/2255 | Hash tables | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 13,982 |
| G06F16/901 | Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 13,773 |
| G06F21/629 | Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules to features or functions of an application | G06F21/62 | In the scheme | 13,557 |
| G06F16/2433 | Query languages | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 13,411 |
| G06F16/2471 | Distributed queries | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 12,994 |
| G06F16/288 | Entity relationship models | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 12,873 |
| G06F16/172 | Caching, prefetching or hoarding of files | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 12,519 |
| G06F16/2453 | Query optimisation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 12,502 |
| G06F16/10 | File systems; File servers | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 12,122 |
| G06F16/90332 | Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 12,087 |
| G06F16/5838 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content using colour | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 12,030 |
| G06F16/90344 | Query processing by using string matching techniques | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,989 |
| G06F16/24575 | Query processing with adaptation to user needs using context | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,904 |
| G06F16/903 | Querying | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,790 |
| G06F16/334 | Query execution | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,673 |
| G06F16/972 | Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,614 |
| G06F16/907 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,596 |
| G06F16/211 | Schema design and management | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,393 |
| G06F16/95 | Retrieval from the web | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,380 |
| G06F16/532 | Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,278 |
| G06F16/178 | Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 11,144 |
| G06F17/30864 | Retired code | G06F16/00 | Retired, by concordance | 10,880 |
| G06F16/355 | Creation or modification of classes or clusters | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 10,799 |
| G06F17/30867 | Retired code | G06F16/00 | Retired, by concordance | 10,723 |
| G06F16/24568 | Data stream processing; Continuous queries | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 10,577 |
| G06F16/345 | Summarisation for human users | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 10,558 |
| G06F16/2474 | Sequence data queries, e.g. querying versioned data | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 10,465 |
| G06F16/9027 | Trees | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 10,265 |
| G06F16/275 | Synchronous replication | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 10,236 |
| G06F16/148 | File search processing | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 10,082 |
| G06F16/986 | Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,839 |
| G06F16/24 | Querying | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,836 |
| G06F16/55 | Clustering; Classification | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,605 |
| G06F16/3334 | Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,601 |
| G06F16/435 | Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,596 |
| G06F16/273 | Asynchronous replication or reconciliation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,524 |
| G06F16/2477 | Temporal data queries | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,479 |
| G06F16/5854 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content using shape and object relationship | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,215 |
| G06F16/219 | Managing data history or versioning | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,096 |
| G06F16/243 | Natural language query formulation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 9,026 |
| G06F16/683 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,996 |
| G06F16/176 | Support for shared access to files; File sharing support | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,993 |
| G06F16/3347 | Query execution using vector based model | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,940 |
| G06F16/313 | Selection or weighting of terms for indexing | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,919 |
| G06F16/587 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,889 |
| G06F16/7867 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,774 |
| G06F16/24564 | Applying rules; Deductive queries | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,642 |
| G06F16/278 | Data partitioning, e.g. horizontal or vertical partitioning | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,524 |
| G06F16/54 | Browsing; Visualisation therefor | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,476 |
| G06F16/1734 | Details of monitoring file system events, e.g. by the use of hooks, filter drivers, logs | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,472 |
| G06F16/9558 | Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,209 |
| G06F16/168 | Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,202 |
| G06F16/36 | Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,170 |
| G06F16/2272 | Management thereof | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,089 |
| G06F16/9554 | Retrieval from the web using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] by using bar codes | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 8,014 |
| G06F16/214 | Database migration support | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,997 |
| G06F16/242 | Query formulation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,978 |
| G06F16/1815 | Journaling file systems | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,958 |
| G06F16/162 | Delete operations | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,917 |
| G06F17/3053 | Retired code | G06F16/00 | Retired, by concordance | 7,915 |
| G06F16/221 | Column-oriented storage; Management thereof | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,826 |
| H04L61/30 | Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames | H04L61/30 | In the scheme | 7,573 |
| G06F16/31 | Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,530 |
| G06F16/1744 | Redundancy elimination performed by the file system using compression, e.g. sparse files | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,387 |
| G06F16/9532 | Query formulation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,341 |
| G06F16/128 | Details of file system snapshots on the file-level, e.g. snapshot creation, administration, deletion | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 7,126 |
| G06F16/113 | Details of archiving | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,886 |
| G06F16/122 | File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots using management policies | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,866 |
| G06F16/2237 | Vectors, bitmaps or matrices | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,848 |
| G06F16/735 | Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,828 |
| G06F16/24542 | Plan optimisation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,817 |
| G06F16/164 | File meta data generation | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,727 |
| G06F16/5846 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content using extracted text | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,716 |
| G06F16/2428 | Query predicate definition using graphical user interfaces, including menus and forms | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,714 |
| G06F16/783 | Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,659 |
| G06F16/71 | Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,654 |
| G06F16/50 | Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of still image data | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,634 |
| G06F16/34 | Browsing; Visualisation therefor | G06F16/00 | In the scheme | 6,616 |
Match: Through its tools
The classification names the equipment or technology the capability draws on, not the capability. The count says how much is being invented for it, not how well it is done. National datasets, registries and governance frameworks are not technologies; only database and naming tools can be matched. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.