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Red Hat, Inc.

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3,500Patents
3,479Active
3,500Granted
66Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 7, 2000 → Jun 24, 2024 · 702 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

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US7668798B2 System and method for accessing data in disparate information sources Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 194 Expired
US7792903B2 Identity management for open overlay for social networks and online services Physics 121 Active
US7487228B1 Metadata structures and related locking techniques to improve performance and scalability in a cluster file system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 113 Expired
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US9037723B2 Triggering workload movement based on policy stack having multiple selectable inputs Electricity 86 Active
US7937456B2 Configuration profiling for remote clients Physics 86 Active
US8108912B2 Systems and methods for management of secure data in cloud-based network Electricity 84 Active
US9280378B2 Adjustment during migration to a different virtualization environment Physics 84 Active
US7406473B1 Distributed file system using disk servers, lock servers and file servers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Expired
US9740543B1 Multi-endpoint method implementation Physics 74 Active
US8301787B2 Selective use of anonymous proxies Electricity 74 Active
US8504689B2 Methods and systems for cloud deployment analysis featuring relative cloud resource importance Physics 71 Active
US8145742B1 Method of and apparatus for network administration Electricity 70 Expired
US8091032B2 Automatic generation of content recommendations weighted by social network context Electricity 69 Active
US8255529B2 Methods and systems for providing deployment architectures in cloud computing environments Physics 65 Active
US8413261B2 Sharing private data publicly and anonymously Electricity 65 Active
US8266127B2 Systems and methods for directed forums Physics 64 Active
US10162873B2 Synchronization of physical disks Physics 62 Active

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