USPTO Examiner GUYTON PHILIP A - Art Unit 2113

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18438862MITIGATION OF TRANSMISSION ERRORS OF QUANTIZED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK IN MULTI ANTENNA SYSTEMSFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210NoNo
18405209SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING AND MAINTENANCEJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210YesNo
18393310FAILURE TRACKING WITH REAL-TIME DATA EVENT STREAMING FOR DATA QUALITY CHECKSDecember 2023July 2025Allow1810YesNo
18372949STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMESeptember 2023December 2024Allow1510YesNo
18472134FLEXIBLE BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANCESeptember 2023June 2024Allow900NoNo
18464390BACKUP AND RECOVERY OF APPLICATION DATA OF AN APPLICATION EXECUTING IN A VIRTUAL MACHINESeptember 2023June 2025Allow2110YesNo
18464405COMPUTER SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHODSeptember 2023June 2025Allow2110NoNo
18464781OPTIMIZED FILE STORAGE STRATEGY FOR INCREASING USABILITY OF KEY FILESSeptember 2023April 2025Allow1910YesNo
18358332ROBUST DATA TRANSFER TO CLOUD AND ON-PREMISE STORAGE SYSTEMSJuly 2023May 2025Allow2110YesNo
18221530Localize Incident Resolution Generator with ReconstructionJuly 2023December 2024Allow1810NoNo
18349269METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR END-TO-END PREDICTION OF UNEXPECTED EVENTS OCCURRED IN A DISASTER RECOVERY SYSTEMJuly 2023February 2025Allow2010NoNo
18208755Improving Recovery Time of Execution Instances in a Passive Optical Network (PON)June 2023January 2025Allow1910NoNo
18332242ADAPTIVE MULTIPATH FABRIC FOR BALANCED PERFORMANCE AND HIGH AVAILABILITYJune 2023August 2024Allow1510NoNo
18203576FAULT TOLERANT MEMORY SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS WITH INTERCONNECTED AND REDUNDANT DATA INTERFACESMay 2023October 2024Allow1610NoNo
18202802MEMORY CONTROLLER ARCHITECTUREMay 2023February 2025Allow2110YesNo
18143903AUTOMATED MEDIA AGENT STATE MANAGEMENTMay 2023August 2024Allow1620NoNo
18305454SCAN FRAME BASED TEST ACCESS MECHANISMSApril 2023June 2024Allow1400NoNo
18192465PRESS TO DOCUMENT APPLIANCE ISSUE DETECTIONMarch 2023December 2024Allow2110NoNo
18185872TENANT-LEVEL DATABASE RECOVERYMarch 2023November 2024Allow2010NoNo
18122204STAND-ALONE IOT DEVICE FOR REPAIRING FAILURES ON A COMPUTING DEVICEMarch 2023August 2024Allow1710NoNo
18114468STORAGE SYSTEMFebruary 2023March 2025Allow2530YesNo
18112289METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, TEST SIGNAL AND TEST DEVICE FOR TESTING A DATA-TRANSFERRING ARRANGEMENT INCLUDING A TRANSMITTER, CHANNEL AND RECEIVERFebruary 2023October 2024Allow2010YesNo
18097676MITIGATION OF TRANSMISSION ERRORS OF QUANTIZED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK IN MULTI ANTENNA SYSTEMSJanuary 2023October 2023Allow910NoNo
18096163PROGRAMMABLE FAULT VIOLATION FILTERJanuary 2023February 2025Allow2520NoNo
18096065DATA RESTORE SYSTEMJanuary 2023September 2024Allow2110NoNo
18095271MONITORING INPUT/OUTPUT AND PERSISTENT RESERVATION ACTIVITY PATTERNS TO DETECT DEGRADED PERFORMANCE OF A HIGH AVAILABILITY AND FAULT TOLERANT APPLICATIONJanuary 2023August 2024Allow1910NoNo
18095159REPLICATION TECHNIQUES USING A METADATA LOGJanuary 2023September 2024Allow2010NoNo
17973074ANOMALY DETECTIONOctober 2022May 2024Allow1810NoNo
17892451ASYNCHRONOUS REGION-AWARE PREFETCHING AND CACHINGAugust 2022July 2024Allow2310YesNo
17889117OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY MODULE, OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY SYSTEMAugust 2022November 2024Allow2720YesNo
17798978INFERENCE CALCULATION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH PROTECTION AGAINST MEMORY ERRORSAugust 2022November 2024Allow2720NoNo
17881667Smart Rebuilding of an Encoded Data SliceAugust 2022May 2024Allow2110NoNo
17878453DISTRIBUTED RAID FOR PARITY-BASED FLASH STORAGE DEVICESAugust 2022April 2024Allow2110YesNo
17864606METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING DATA CORRUPTIONJuly 2022July 2023Allow1210NoNo
17812279Encoding Data Based on Targeted Storage Unit InformationJuly 2022May 2023Allow1010NoNo
17858731ADAPTIVE WEAR LEVELING FOR ENDURANCE COMPENSATIONJuly 2022February 2024Allow1910NoNo
17808263Recovering a Data Chunk from a Portion of a Set of Encoded Data SlicesJune 2022September 2024Allow2730YesNo
17839379MEMORY SAFETY INTERFACE CONFIGURATIONJune 2022March 2024Allow2110YesNo
17751141USING WORKLOAD DATA TO TRAIN ERROR CLASSIFICATION MODELMay 2022January 2024Allow2010YesNo
17750001HYPERVISOR REMEDIAL ACTION FOR A VIRTUAL MACHINE IN RESPONSE TO AN ERROR MESSAGE FROM THE VIRTUAL MACHINEMay 2022February 2025Abandon3340YesNo
17746066FLEXIBLE BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANCEMay 2022June 2023Allow1310YesNo
17739001MITIGATING AND AUTOMATING BACKUP FAILURE RECOVERIES IN DATA PROTECTION POLICIESMay 2022June 2024Allow2610NoNo
17737351APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DEBUGGING SOLID-STATE DISK (SSD) DEVICEMay 2022December 2023Allow2010NoNo
17728907Method, System and Apparatus for Error Correction Coding Embedded in Physically Unclonable Function ArraysApril 2022March 2023Allow1110NoNo
17709846SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTORING MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS OF A SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER FROM VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWAREMarch 2022May 2024Allow2510NoNo
17683210PERFORMING DIAGNOSTIC OPERATIONS ON A TARGET SYSTEMFebruary 2022January 2025Allow3440YesNo
17675485COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MODEL SWITCH TIMINGFebruary 2022May 2024Abandon2710NoNo
17672226AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF DYNAMIC SERVICE OUTAGESFebruary 2022January 2023Allow1110NoNo
17650727PROACTIVE VOLTAGE DROOP REDUCTION AND/OR MITIGATION IN A PROCESSOR COREFebruary 2022April 2023Allow1410YesNo
17665616SCAN FRAME BASED TEST ACCESS MECHANISMSFebruary 2022December 2022Allow1000NoNo
17578931HIGH AVAILABILITY MANAGEMENT FOR A HIERARCHY OF RESOURCES IN AN SDDCJanuary 2022May 2024Allow2820NoNo
17574906SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT REAL TIME LOG EXPORT AND VIEW IN A MICRO SERVICES SYSTEMJanuary 2022December 2023Allow2310NoNo
17567099LOW LATENCY PARITY FOR A MEMORY DEVICEDecember 2021December 2023Allow2420YesNo
17618608FAULT ISOLATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAMDecember 2021February 2024Abandon2620NoNo
17535312ENHANCED BLOCK MANAGEMENT FOR A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEMNovember 2021March 2023Allow1610YesNo
17534717LOGGING MESSAGES IN A BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER USING A CO-PROCESSORNovember 2021July 2023Allow2010YesNo
17456514SYNTHESIZED NETWORK BLOCK DEVICES FOR RECOVERY OF IMAGE BACKUPSNovember 2021June 2022Allow610YesNo
17530588SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA-DRIVEN PROACTIVE DETECTION AND REMEDIATION OF ERRORS ON ENDPOINT COMPUTING SYSTEMSNovember 2021September 2024Allow3430YesNo
17530238SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING AND MAINTENANCENovember 2021August 2023Allow2120YesNo
17528551METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR RAID RECONSTRUCTIONNovember 2021August 2023Allow2110NoNo
17517946STORAGE CONTROLLER, OPERATION METHOD THEREOFNovember 2021February 2024Allow2720YesNo
17516053SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEMORY-PRESSURE AND PROCESSOR USAGE VISUALIZATIONNovember 2021July 2024Allow3230NoNo
17516072SEMICONDUCTOR DIE FAILURE RECOVERY IN A DATA STORAGE DEVICENovember 2021July 2023Allow2010NoNo
17513049SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DEBUG MESSAGES ON A SIDEBAND OF A SERIAL LINK ACCORDING TO A DEBUG TYPE MESSAGING PROTOCOLOctober 2021April 2025Allow4210NoNo
17510428METHOD FOR DATA COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A MANAGEMENT LEVEL AND A FIELD LEVEL OF AN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMOctober 2021May 2025Allow4350YesNo
17499852HBM RAS CACHE ARCHITECTUREOctober 2021August 2024Allow3450YesNo
17450297Dynamically Verifying Ingress Configuration ChangesOctober 2021September 2023Allow2310YesNo
17486341STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMESeptember 2021July 2023Allow2110YesNo
17483521SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS TO DEBUG ACCELERATOR HARDWARESeptember 2021July 2023Allow2210NoNo
17479133BACKUP AND RECOVERY OF APPLICATION DATA OF AN APPLICATION EXECUTING IN A VIRTUAL MACHINESeptember 2021April 2023Allow1910YesNo
17466529PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2021November 2022Allow1500NoNo
17462442MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM DATA RETENTION VIA REFRESHAugust 2021April 2023Allow2010YesNo
17411592Recovery Time of Execution InstancesAugust 2021February 2023Allow1700NoNo
17403824EMULATING HIGH-FREQUENCY APPLICATION-CONSISTENT SNAPSHOTS BY FORMING RESTORE POINT DATA SETS BASED ON REMOTE SITE REPLAY OF I/O COMMANDSAugust 2021April 2023Allow2020YesNo
17398576SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING UPDATE OF ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT OF VEHICLEAugust 2021July 2024Abandon3520NoNo
17426975SMART SELECTION OF TEST SCRIPTS FOR COMMODITY TESTING ON MANUFACTURING FLOORJuly 2021April 2024Allow3320NoNo
17388858Low Latency Fault and Status Indicator in Serial CommunicationJuly 2021December 2023Allow2840NoNo
17354268FAULT TOLERANT MEMORY SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS WITH INTERCONNECTED AND REDUNDANT DATA INTERFACESJune 2021February 2023Allow2010NoNo
17350885PCIe INTERFACE AND INTERFACE SYSTEMJune 2021June 2023Allow2420NoNo
17333480ERROR DYNAMICS ANALYSISMay 2021February 2023Allow2110NoNo
17331188SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MARGIN BASED DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR PRIORITY PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULERSMay 2021October 2022Allow1700NoNo
17322642APPLICATION LEVEL LIVE SYNCHRONIZATION ACROSS COMPUTING PLATFORMS SUCH AS CLOUD PLATFORMSMay 2021July 2023Abandon2610NoNo
17302731FAULT PREDICTION METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUMMay 2021February 2023Allow2110NoNo
17316518DISASTER RECOVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH LOW RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVESMay 2021November 2022Allow1830YesNo
17244404APPLICATION RELIABILITY SERVICEApril 2021March 2024Allow3550YesNo
17244689EXCEPTION MANAGEMENT IN HETEROGENOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTApril 2021March 2023Allow2220YesNo
17236256RECOVERY FROM PARTIAL DEVICE ERROR IN DATA STORAGE SYSTEMApril 2021September 2023Allow2940YesNo
17232144SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR FAULT RESILIENT STORAGEApril 2021November 2024Allow4350YesNo
17207424MANAGING CAPACITY REDUCTION DUE TO STORAGE DEVICE FAILUREMarch 2021October 2023Allow3140YesNo
17204216METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STORAGE MANAGEMENTMarch 2021March 2022Allow1210NoNo
17180402METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTING HANGUP IN A POST ROUTINE FROM FAULTY BIOS SETTINGSFebruary 2021June 2023Allow2820YesNo
17248885Efficient Rebuilding Of An Encoded Data SliceFebruary 2021April 2022Allow1420YesNo
17160490STORAGE ARRAY DISK RECOVERYJanuary 2021August 2023Allow3030NoNo
17152817Resource dump systemJanuary 2021July 2023Abandon3040YesNo
17149730METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DISK MANAGEMENT OF ALL FLASH ARRAY SERVERJanuary 2021November 2022Allow2210NoNo
17143234METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING DATA CORRUPTIONJanuary 2021April 2022Allow1620YesNo
17137421METHOD, SYSTEM AND TERMINAL FOR RECORDING ERROR INFORMATION OF BASIC INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM BASED ON GPNVDecember 2020June 2022Abandon1810NoNo
17125602SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING TESTS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES MAINTENANCE RELEASE CERTIFICATIONDecember 2020October 2022Allow2230NoNo
17115020STORAGE UNIT SOLICITATION FOR ENCODED DATA SLICE STORAGEDecember 2020April 2022Allow1620YesNo
17112271MANAGING PROBABILISTIC DATA INTEGRITY SCAN INTERVALSDecember 2020February 2023Allow2620YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner GUYTON, PHILIP A.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
18
Examiner Affirmed
13
(72.2%)
Examiner Reversed
5
(27.8%)
Reversal Percentile
42.4%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 27.8% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
52
Allowed After Appeal Filing
17
(32.7%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
35
(67.3%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
47.6%
Lower than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.

In this dataset, 32.7% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Examiner GUYTON, PHILIP A - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner GUYTON, PHILIP A works in Art Unit 2113 and has examined 947 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 85.6%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner GUYTON, PHILIP A's allowance rate of 85.6% places them in the 58% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by GUYTON, PHILIP A receive 1.96 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 63% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by GUYTON, PHILIP A is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 40% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +1.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by GUYTON, PHILIP A. This interview benefit is in the 16% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 25.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 30% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 41.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 56% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 69.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 56% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 67.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 48% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 44.7% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 36.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 32% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 2.5% of allowed cases (in the 80% percentile). Per MPEP § 1302.04, examiner's amendments are used to place applications in condition for allowance when only minor changes are needed. This examiner frequently uses this tool compared to other examiners, indicating a cooperative approach to getting applications allowed. Strategic Insight: If you are close to allowance but minor claim amendments are needed, this examiner may be willing to make an examiner's amendment rather than requiring another round of prosecution.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 46% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • Examiner cooperation: This examiner frequently makes examiner's amendments to place applications in condition for allowance. If you are close to allowance, the examiner may help finalize the claims.

Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

  • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
  • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
  • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
  • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
  • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
  • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

Important Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

No Guarantees: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the statistics presented above. Patent prosecution statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data and are subject to data quality limitations, processing errors, and changes in USPTO practices over time.

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Use at Your Own Risk: While we strive to provide accurate and useful prosecution statistics, you should independently verify any information that is material to your prosecution strategy and use your professional judgment in all patent prosecution matters.