How many patents does
Software have?
patents
582
families
199
granted
234
applications
348
US
338
EP
144
CN
60
GB
2
RoW
38
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Software
Top ten assignees appearing on patents
2009 - 2018
| software | 533 |
| softing | 7 |
| software ag usa | 6 |
| software ag | 6 |
| ontoprise | 5 |
| progress software corporation | 4 |
| metaware | 3 |
| microsoft corporation | 1 |
| sotfwar | 1 |
| software ag (de) | 1 |
2009
| software | 48 |
| software ag | 4 |
| progress software corporation | 2 |
| ontoprise | 1 |
2018
| software | 20 |
| software ag usa | 1 |
Software
The top ten patent families are
|
Title of patent family (most common patent title) |
Family members |
Filing year |
|---|---|---|
| systems and/or methods for location transparent routing and execution of processes | 7 | 2007 |
| systems and/or methods for standards-based messaging | 7 | 2009 |
| systems and/or methods for providing feature-rich proprietary and standards-based trigge… 🛈 | 7 | 2007 |
| systems and/or methods for end-to-end business process management, business event manage… 🛈 | 6 | 2009 |
| method and server cluster for mapreducing flow services and large documents | 6 | 2008 |
| system and method for managing web services | 6 | 2006 |
| method for manipulating objects in a soa registry | 6 | 2008 |
| system for managing the lifecycle of a service oriented architecture | 6 | 2006 |
| method and system for analyzing a legacy system based on trails through the legacy system | 5 | 2009 |
| method for mass-deleting data records of a database system | 5 | 2009 |