USPTO Examiner MEHRMANESH ELMIRA - Art Unit 2113

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18692281METHOD FOR LOG RECORDING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2024August 2024Allow510YesNo
18535465PAUSELESS END-OF-INTERVAL ROLLOVER WITH FAULT TOLERANCEDecember 2023June 2025Allow1910YesNo
18505037INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DEBUGGER AND ARBITRATION INTERFACENovember 2023August 2024Allow1010NoNo
18498363MANAGING DATA BACKUP FOR DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS USING OUT-OF-BAND METHODSOctober 2023June 2025Allow1920NoNo
18496367this application claims the benefit of priority under U.S.C. 120 as a contininuation of US patent Application NO. 17/305,676 filed july 13,2023. which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.October 2023October 2024Allow1210YesNo
18483136HEALTH CHECKS FOR INFUSION PUMP COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMSOctober 2023September 2024Allow1110YesNo
18223322INCIDENT DETECTION AND MANAGEMENTJuly 2023July 2024Allow1210NoNo
18354166TRACKING DEBUG EVENTS FROM AN AUTONOMOUS MODULE THROUGH A DATA PIPELINEJuly 2023June 2024Allow1110NoNo
18343148DIAGNOSIS AND TROUBLESHOOTING OF DEVICES USING MULTIPLE LAYER ARCHITECTUREJune 2023May 2025Abandon2310NoNo
18214379LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK DECODERJune 2023July 2024Allow1210NoNo
18333500Fault response model management in a storage systemJune 2023July 2024Allow1320NoNo
18310288USING AN EVENT GRAPH SCHEMA FOR ROOT CAUSE IDENTIFICATION AND EVENT CLASSIFICATION IN SYSTEM MONITORINGMay 2023September 2024Allow1620YesNo
18305140TESTING AND DEPLOYMENT OF COMPONENTS AND APPLICATIONS IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTSApril 2023May 2025Allow2510YesNo
18134438SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR DATA RECOVERY FOR EPHEMERAL STORAGEApril 2023October 2024Allow1920YesNo
18296317METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANCE FOR A STATE MACHINE REPLICATION SYSTEMApril 2023May 2025Abandon2510NoNo
18113688COMPRESSED SCAN CHAIN DIAGNOSIS BY INTERNAL CHAIN OBSERVATION, PROCESSES, CIRCUITS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMSFebruary 2023November 2023Allow810NoNo
18098232INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR ABNORMAL EVENT DETERMINATION FROM TIME-SERIES DATA, AND METHODS AND PROGRAMS FOR OPERATING THE SAMEJanuary 2023August 2024Allow1910YesNo
18004709NETWORK SERVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND NETWORK SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHODJanuary 2023January 2025Abandon2420YesNo
18089128DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OUT-OF-BAND DELIVERY OF ERROR REPORTSDecember 2022April 2025Allow2710NoNo
18084822UTILIZING POWER-DRAW DEVICE SIGNALS TO IMPROVE THE RECOVERY OF VIRTUAL MACHINE HOST DEVICESDecember 2022January 2025Allow2510YesNo
18010969TURN ON FUNCTIONAL MODULE AND RELATED FUNCTIONAL MODULE BASED ON GENERATED DISK IMAGEDecember 2022November 2024Allow2310NoNo
17981508Analysis of Events in an Integrated Circuit Using Cause Tree and BufferNovember 2022February 2024Allow1510YesNo
17959561Ceph Failure and VerificationOctober 2022August 2024Allow2310YesNo
17956780AER and AEN for Overlapping Cross FeatureSeptember 2022May 2024Allow2010YesNo
17934631SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AN OPERATION OF A DEVICE BASED ON PARAMETER CONFIGURATIONSeptember 2022May 2025Abandon3220YesNo
17903535DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOLVING ERRORS BETWEEN A CLIENT DEVICE, AN INTERMEDIATION SERVER AND A PROVIDER SYSTEMSeptember 2022February 2025Allow2920NoNo
17899056A METHOD FOR TESTING A COMMAND, AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING A COMMAND AND A READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2022February 2024Allow1710NoNo
17898824COST-EFFECTIVE, FAILURE-AWARE RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND RESERVATION IN THE CLOUDAugust 2022October 2024Allow2510YesNo
17894893METHOD AND MEMORY SYSTEM FOR WRITING DATA TO DRAM SUBMODULES BASED ON THE DATA TRAFFIC DEMANDAugust 2022February 2024Allow1810NoNo
17819347FLASH-BASED STORAGE DEVICE AND COPY-BACK OPERATION METHOD THEREOFAugust 2022June 2025Allow3420NoNo
17816182OPTIMIZING HIGH-AVAILABILITY VIRTUAL MACHINE PLACEMENTS IN ADVANCE OF A COMPUTING CLUSTER FAILURE EVENTJuly 2022June 2024Allow2210YesNo
17813791FAILURE RECOVERY IN A REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT USING A MATRIX CLOCK AND A REPLICATION CONTROLLERJuly 2022April 2024Allow2110NoNo
17864220METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RESOLVING ROOT CAUSES OF PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS WITH APPLICATIONS EXECUTING IN A DATA CENTERJuly 2022March 2024Abandon2010NoNo
17807197GENERATING, AGGREGATING, AND QUERYING VIRTUALIZATION SERVICE EXECUTION METRICS FOR CLOUD DIAGNOSTICS AT SCALEJune 2022October 2024Allow2811YesNo
17828357MICROSERVICES ANOMALY DETECTIONMay 2022May 2024Allow2410NoNo
17779105IDENTIFIERS OF CRASH EVENT WORK ITEMSMay 2022March 2024Abandon2210NoNo
17664050PROACTIVE AVOIDANCE OF PERFORMANCE ISSUES IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS USING A PROBABILISTIC MODEL AND CAUSAL GRAPHSMay 2022July 2024Allow2620YesNo
17745037RESTORING VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION (VNF) PERFORMANCE VIA VNF RESET OF LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENTMay 2022March 2023Allow1010NoNo
17745134HIERARCHICAL NEURAL NETWORK-BASED ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMSMay 2022March 2024Abandon2210NoNo
17744576LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK DECODERMay 2022March 2023Allow1010NoNo
17743837METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FAILOVERS IN PROCESSING NODES FOR COLLABORATIVE COMPUTINGMay 2022August 2024Allow2720YesNo
17740408EXTENDED REMOTE COPY CONFIGURATOR OF THREE-SITE DATA REPLICATION FOR DISASTER RECOVERYMay 2022February 2023Allow910YesNo
17660528FAILURE RECOVERY IN A REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT USING MATRIX CLOCKSApril 2022April 2024Allow2310YesNo
17594034On-chip Debugging Device and MethodApril 2022July 2024Allow3320YesNo
17658695HEALTH CHECKS FOR INFUSION PUMP COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMSApril 2022June 2023Allow1410NoNo
17657856PROCESSING SYSTEM, RELATED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DEVICE AND METHODApril 2022February 2025Allow3400NoNo
17703781End of Service Life of Data Storage DevicesMarch 2022December 2023Abandon2130NoNo
17688426DIAGNOSING AND MITIGATING MEMORY LEAK IN COMPUTING NODESMarch 2022May 2023Allow1410NoNo
17686151OUTLIER DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD IN TIME SERIESMarch 2022August 2024Abandon2920NoNo
17592841INCIDENT DETECTION AND MANAGEMENTFebruary 2022March 2023Allow1310NoNo
17589833SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE-LEARNING BASED ALERT GROUPINGJanuary 2022May 2024Allow2720YesNo
17589600SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE-LEARNING BASED ALERT GROUPING INCLUDING TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTSJanuary 2022September 2024Allow3130YesNo
17589847SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE-LEARNING BASED ALERT GROUPING AND PROVIDING REMEDIATION RECOMMENDATIONSJanuary 2022April 2024Allow2720YesNo
17589532Systems and Methods for Retraining Machine-Learning Models to Perform Alert GroupingJanuary 2022April 2024Allow2620YesNo
17583056System and Method for Data Ingestion, Anomaly and Root Cause DetectionJanuary 2022October 2024Allow3320YesNo
17575014ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF LOGS GENERATED BY EXECUTION OF A SYSTEMJanuary 2022January 2023Allow1210NoNo
17556792PREDICTIVE ANOMALY DETECTION FRAMEWORKDecember 2021July 2023Allow1930YesNo
17551774PROCESSOR TRACE WITH SUPPRESSION OF PERIODIC TIMING PACKETS FOR LOW DENSITY TRACE SECTIONSDecember 2021April 2025Allow4010NoNo
17538867SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING BACKUP STORAGE AND VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF BACKUP FILESNovember 2021April 2022Allow410YesNo
17614125DIAGNOSTIC TEST PRIORITIZATION BASED ON ACCUMULATED DIAGNOSTIC REPORTSNovember 2021October 2024Allow3520YesNo
17527188DYNAMIC TRACING OF RUNTIME DATA IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMNovember 2021November 2023Allow2420NoNo
17524163DEFECT TRACKING AND REMEDIATION USING CLIENT-SIDE SCREEN RECORDINGNovember 2021March 2025Abandon4040YesNo
17512891EVALUATING SYSTEM RECOVERY USING EMULATED PRODUCTION SYSTEMSOctober 2021October 2023Allow2410YesNo
17439091ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD, ANOMALY DETECTION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAMSeptember 2021April 2024Abandon3220YesNo
17411303End-User Device Testing of Websites and ApplicationsAugust 2021September 2024Abandon3740YesNo
17411770SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEMORY HANG RECOVERY USING A DISTRIBUTED POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMAugust 2021July 2023Allow2320YesNo
17407806EFFICIENT PARTITIONING FOR STORAGE SYSTEM RESILIENCY GROUPSAugust 2021October 2024Allow3840YesYes
17405262DATA CENTER SELF-HEALINGAugust 2021November 2024Abandon3860YesNo
17431272Training a Model for Use with a Software Installation ProcessAugust 2021September 2023Abandon2510NoNo
17396079COMPRESSED SCAN CHAIN DIAGNOSIS BY INTERNAL CHAIN OBSERVATION, PROCESSES, CIRCUITS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMSAugust 2021October 2022Allow1410NoNo
17444102USING AN EVENT GRAPH SCHEMA FOR ROOT CAUSE IDENTIFICATION AND EVENT CLASSIFICATION IN SYSTEM MONITORINGJuly 2021December 2022Allow1710YesNo
17388755Intelligently determining when to perform enhanced loggingJuly 2021October 2023Allow2720NoNo
17386837TEST SYSTEM FOR DATA STORAGE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE TESTINGJuly 2021February 2023Allow1910YesNo
17305676MESSAGE CALL REQUEST DATA HAVING ERROR FREQUENCY METRICSJuly 2021June 2023Allow2320YesNo
17368651MANAGING DATA DISTURBANCE IN A MEMORY WITH ASYMMETRIC DISTURBANCE EFFECTSJuly 2021January 2023Allow1820YesNo
17364863EVENT VISUALIZATION FOR ASSET CONDITION MONITORINGJune 2021January 2023Allow1810YesNo
17419518DATA BACKUP AND RECOVERY METHOD FOR NVDIMM, NVDIMM CONTROLLER AND NVDIMMJune 2021November 2023Allow2910NoNo
17352444TRACKING DEBUG EVENTS FROM AN AUTONOMOUS MODULE THROUGH A DATA PIPELINEJune 2021April 2023Allow2210NoNo
17302343DISASTER RECOVERY FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SERVERS, INCLUDING METADATA FIXERSApril 2021January 2023Allow2110NoNo
17235397SWITCHING BETWEEN FAULT RESPONSE MODELS IN A STORAGE SYSTEMApril 2021February 2023Allow2120YesNo
17223604METHOD TO IDENTIFY THE PERFORMANCE BOTTLE NECK IN THE COMPLEX ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTApril 2021August 2024Allow4040NoNo
17220487DETERMINATION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2021March 2023Abandon2330NoNo
17209633GRAPH ANALYSIS AND DATABASE FOR AGGREGATED DISTRIBUTED TRACE FLOWSMarch 2021June 2023Allow2720YesNo
17272141PROCESSOR ELEMENT REDUNDANCY FOR ACCELERATED DEEP LEARNINGFebruary 2021January 2022Allow1110NoNo
17182266IDENTIFYING ANOMALIES IN A DATA CENTER USING COMPOSITE METRICS AND/OR MACHINE LEARNINGFebruary 2021January 2024Allow3530YesNo
17161765LOW COST, HETEROGENEOUS METHOD OF TRANSFORMING REPLICATED DATA FOR CONSUMPTION IN THE CLOUDJanuary 2021February 2022Allow1310YesNo
17159913SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR DATA RECOVERY FOR EPHEMERAL STORAGEJanuary 2021April 2022Allow1500NoNo
17156966RESTORING VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION (VNF) PERFORMANCE VIA VNF RESET OF LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENTJanuary 2021January 2022Allow1210YesNo
17139249INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DEBUGGER AND ARBITRATION INTERFACEDecember 2020August 2023Allow3120YesNo
17135668SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PROGRAM REPAIR USING FAST-RESULT TEST CASESDecember 2020August 2022Allow2000YesNo
17134060ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF LOGS GENERATED BY EXECUTION OF A SYSTEMDecember 2020August 2021Allow800NoNo
17132221RUNTIME FAULT DETECTION, FAULT LOCATION, AND CIRCUIT RECOVERY IN AN ACCELERATOR DEVICEDecember 2020August 2023Abandon3220YesNo
17122009VERIFICATION OF SOFTWARE TEST QUALITY USING HIDDEN VARIABLESDecember 2020September 2021Allow900YesNo
17105979SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DETECTING AND CREATING OPERATION INCIDENTSNovember 2020October 2022Allow2330YesNo
17104890INCIDENT DETECTION AND MANAGEMENTNovember 2020September 2021Allow1000YesNo
17102469Universal Profiling Device and Method for Simulating Performance Monitoring UnitNovember 2020September 2022Allow2210NoNo
17085511INTERFACES FOR WIRELESS DEBUGGINGOctober 2020March 2023Allow2830YesNo
17084564LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK DECODEROctober 2020February 2022Allow1610NoNo
17047498DATA COLLECTION TO MONITOR DEVICES FOR PERFORMANCEOctober 2020July 2023Abandon3320NoNo
17032705Granular Recovery Using Hot-Plug Virtual DisksSeptember 2020October 2021Allow1300YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
22
Examiner Affirmed
16
(72.7%)
Examiner Reversed
6
(27.3%)
Reversal Percentile
41.7%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 27.3% 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
24
(46.2%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
28
(53.8%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
72.9%
Higher 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, 46.2% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA works in Art Unit 2113 and has examined 782 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.4%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA's allowance rate of 83.4% places them in the 51% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA receive 1.98 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 64% 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 MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA 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 +10.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA. This interview benefit is in the 48% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 31.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 56% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 47.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 66% 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, 71.4% 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 62.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 36% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 32.4% 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, 64.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 81% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 3.8% of allowed cases (in the 86% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 8% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically 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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