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Dell Software Inc.

161Patents
159Active
161Granted
60Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 25, 2002 → May 9, 2016 · 14 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9317574B1 System and method for managing and identifying subject matter experts Physics 256 Active
US9349016B1 System and method for user-context-based data loss prevention Electricity 251 Active
US8738972B1 Systems and methods for real-time monitoring of virtualized environments Physics 172 Active
US9578060B1 System and method for data loss prevention across heterogeneous communications platforms Physics 142 Active
US9501744B1 System and method for classifying data Physics 137 Active
US8898114B1 Multitier deduplication systems and methods Physics 90 Active
US9485231B1 Securing internet of things communications across multiple vendors Electricity 60 Active
US9547562B1 Boot restore system for rapidly restoring virtual machine backups Physics 57 Active
US9557879B1 System for inferring dependencies among computing systems Electricity 54 Active
US8996468B1 Block status mapping system for reducing virtual machine backup storage Physics 50 Active
US8712970B1 Recovering a database to any point-in-time in the past with guaranteed data consistency Physics 48 Active
US9495222B1 Systems and methods for performance indexing Physics 38 Active
US9215142B1 Community analysis of computing performance Electricity 38 Active
US8903983B2 Method, system and apparatus for managing, modeling, predicting, allocating and utilizing resources and bottlenecks in a computer network Physics 37 Active
US9569446B1 Cataloging system for image-based backup Physics 36 Active
US9237129B2 Method to enable deep packet inspection (DPI) in openflow-based software defined network (SDN) Electricity 33 Active
US9619776B1 Systems and methods for individualized routing and transportation of parcels Performing Operations; Transporting 33 Active
US9390240B1 System and method for querying data Electricity 32 Active
US9842218B1 Systems and methods of secure self-service access to content Electricity 27 Active
US9311375B1 Systems and methods for compacting a virtual machine file Physics 27 Active
US8972347B1 Recovering a file system to any point-in-time in the past with guaranteed structure, content consistency and integrity Physics 26 Active
US9275172B2 Systems and methods for analyzing performance of virtual environments Physics 24 Active
US8601539B1 Systems and methods for managing user permissions Physics 22 Active
US9779260B1 Aggregation and classification of secure data Physics 21 Active
US8966112B1 Network protocol proxy Electricity 20 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.