Snowflake Inc. Patent Application Trends in 2024

Snowflake Inc. patent applications in 2024

Top 10 Technology Areas

• G06F16/27 (Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor)
  • Count: 25 patents
  • Example: 20240256570. CACHING SYSTEMS AND METHODS simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/2365 ({Ensuring data consistency and integrity})
  • Count: 18 patents
  • Example: 20240232167. FILE-BASED ERROR HANDLING DURING INGESTION WITH TRANSFORMATION simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F21/6227 ({where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries})
  • Count: 14 patents
  • Example: 20240289333. METADATA SEARCH VIA N-GRAM INDEX simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/283 ({Multi-dimensional databases or data warehouses, e.g. MOLAP or ROLAP})
  • Count: 13 patents
  • Example: 20240232226. MULTI-CLUSTER WAREHOUSE simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/221 ({Column-oriented storage; Management thereof})
  • Count: 13 patents
  • Example: 20240256570. CACHING SYSTEMS AND METHODS simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/254 ({Extract, transform and load [ETL] procedures, e.g. ETL data flows in data warehouses})
  • Count: 12 patents
  • Example: 20240232213. FUTURE SCHEDULER FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/2455 (Query execution)
  • Count: 12 patents
  • Example: 20240232213. FUTURE SCHEDULER FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• H04L67/1097 (for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS])
  • Count: 12 patents
  • Example: 20240232226. MULTI-CLUSTER WAREHOUSE simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/2456 ({Join operations})
  • Count: 12 patents
  • Example: 20240126765. REAL-TIME STREAMING DATA INGESTION INTO DATABASE TABLES simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F21/6218 ({to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database})
  • Count: 12 patents
  • Example: 20240259387. SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DATABASE-LEVEL ROLES FOR DATA SHARING simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)

Emerging Technology Areas

• G06F8/77 (Software metrics)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240323032. COMMIT SIGNING SERVICE simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F8/30 (Creation or generation of source code)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240323032. COMMIT SIGNING SERVICE simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• H04L9/3247 ({involving digital signatures})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240323032. COMMIT SIGNING SERVICE simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• H04L67/30 (Profiles)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240333718. EVENTS ACCOUNT FOR NATIVE APP EVENT SHARING simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• H04L67/125 (involving control of end-device applications over a network)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240333718. EVENTS ACCOUNT FOR NATIVE APP EVENT SHARING simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/235 ({Update request formulation})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240333718. EVENTS ACCOUNT FOR NATIVE APP EVENT SHARING simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F11/079 (Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240333718. EVENTS ACCOUNT FOR NATIVE APP EVENT SHARING simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F21/44 (Program or device authentication)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240330430. PROVIDING ACCESS CONTROL FOR POLICIES simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F18/241 (Classification techniques)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240330412. COLUMN CLASSIFICATION MODEL simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F17/18 (for evaluating statistical data {, e.g. average values, frequency distributions, probability functions, regression analysis (forecasting specially adapted for a specific administrative, business or logistic context)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240330300. INDEXED GEOSPATIAL SEARCH simplified abstract (Snowflake Inc.)

Top Inventors

• Subramanian Muralidhar of Mercer Island WA (US) (31 patents)
• Thierry Cruanes of San Mateo CA (US) (22 patents)
• Benoit Dageville of San Mateo CA (US) (19 patents)
• Pui Kei Johnston Chu (14 patents)
• Justin Langseth of Kailua HI (US) (13 patents)
• Damien Carru of New York NY (US) (12 patents)
• Di Wu of Newark CA (US) (11 patents)
• Jiaqi Yan of Menlo Park CA (US) (11 patents)
• Unmesh Jagtap of San Mateo CA (US) (9 patents)
• Istvan Cseri of Seattle WA (US) (8 patents)

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Geographical Distribution of Inventors

Geographical Distribution of US Inventors