Container Orchestration Scheduling Patents: Who Leads and Where the Claims Sit
45.6% of all 204 records sit with just five assignees, so the top of this field is genuinely concentrated rather than evenly spread. Filings rose from 6 in 2017 to a peak of 32 in 2023, then held roughly flat — 23 in 2021 to 24 in 2024, a +4% move over three years. Treat 2025 and 2026 figures as provisional; they will revise upward as later applications publish.
- 1INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION31
- 2TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)22
- 3HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEV LP18
- 4INTEL CORP12
- 5DELL PROD LP10
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- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions about this landscape
Who holds the most container orchestration scheduling patents?
One assignee leads with 31 records in this dataset, well ahead of the fifth-ranked filer at 10 and the tenth-ranked filer at 6. The top five assignees combined hold 93 records, 45.6% of all 204 records in scope, making this a genuinely concentrated field at the top. Beyond the top ten, coverage spreads thinly across a long tail of 68 ranked companies in total, so most individual filers hold only one or two records.
Is the container scheduling patent field still growing?
Filing volume rose steadily from 6 records in 2017 to a peak of 32 in 2023, then flattened — 23 records in 2021 versus 24 in 2024, a +4% move over three years. That pattern reads as claim space filling in around a settled core rather than a technology still expanding rapidly. Figures for 2025 and 2026 are still partial because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so the most recent years will revise upward over time.
What patent classes cover cluster scheduling and bin packing inventions?
The dominant class is G06F (electric digital data processing), appearing on 78.4% of the 204 records, followed by H04L (digital information transmission) at 31.9%. Smaller but notable overlaps include G06N (AI-based computing) at 5.9%, H04W (wireless networks) at 2.9%, and G06T (image data processing) at 2.5%. Because a single record can carry multiple IPC classes, these shares add up to more than 100% and should be read against the 204-record total, not against each other.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Container Orchestration Scheduling covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.