USPTO Examiner KHAN MASUD K - Art Unit 2132

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19334106LOCAL OBJECT TRANSPORT PROXY FOR DATA CENTER COMPUTING NODESSeptember 2025January 2026Allow410NoNo
18916946Soft Capacity Constraints for Storage Assignment in a Distributed EnvironmentOctober 2024March 2026Allow1710NoNo
18828665GRAPH CACHE RECONFIGURATIONSeptember 2024March 2026Allow1811NoNo
18828085STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHODSeptember 2024January 2026Allow1710NoNo
18825043Data Access Method, Apparatus, and SystemSeptember 2024January 2026Allow1610NoNo
18794915BLOCK COPYAugust 2024January 2026Allow1710NoNo
18786790MEMORY ACCESS OPERATIONS BASED ON SCORESJuly 2024November 2025Allow1610NoNo
18784193METHOD FOR MANAGING CACHE DATA, MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEJuly 2024December 2025Allow1710NoNo
18777693Out-of-Core Processing of In Memory Programs Through a User Transparent Block CacheJuly 2024December 2025Allow1710NoNo
18770044NEAR MEMORY PROCESSING MODULE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF ALLOCATION UNITSJuly 2024November 2025Allow1610NoNo
18741235EVICTING A CACHE LINE WITH PENDING CONTROL REQUESTJune 2024October 2025Allow1610NoNo
18735671STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE STORAGE DEVICEJune 2024November 2025Allow1710YesNo
18671064METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT LAYOUT OF STORED VIDEO SEGMENTSMay 2024February 2026Allow2120NoYes
18667737TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-TIERED DATA STORAGE IN MULTI-TENANT CACHING SYSTEMSMay 2024January 2026Allow2020YesNo
18656513UNIFORM CACHE SYSTEM FOR FAST DATA ACCESSMay 2024August 2025Allow1510NoNo
18655884METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REQUEST PROCESSING UNDER MIXED CACHELINE GRANULESMay 2024December 2025Abandon1910NoNo
18654109WRITE CONTROL FOR READ-MODIFY-WRITE OPERATIONS IN CACHE MEMORYMay 2024August 2025Allow1510NoNo
18651888ACCESSING TRANSACTION CONFIGURATION DATAMay 2024December 2025Allow2010NoNo
18649961Pre-Read Assisted Write Coalescing for Parity Virtual DisksApril 2024September 2025Allow1700NoNo
18705538SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHE ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENTApril 2024October 2025Allow1810NoNo
18638959FLEXIBLY SIZED VIRTUAL LAYER BLOCKS FOR LOGICAL ADDRESS MAPPINGApril 2024September 2025Allow1710YesNo
18627186FIRMWARE POWER UP SEQUENCING IN MEMORY SUB-SYSTEMSApril 2024April 2025Allow1210NoNo
18620278DYNAMIC CACHE ALLOCATION IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACCELERATORMarch 2024July 2025Allow1600NoNo
18616171STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAMEMarch 2024April 2025Allow1310NoNo
18599584STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEMMarch 2024February 2026Abandon2320NoNo
18582926PERFORMING MEMORY ACCESS OPERATIONS WITH A LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL MAPPING TABLE WITH REDUCED SIZEFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310NoNo
18429924USING RESOURCE POOL ADMINISTRATIVE ENTITIES IN A DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO PROVIDE SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE TO TENANTSFebruary 2024September 2024Allow800NoNo
18426088ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND SYSTEMJanuary 2024August 2025Allow1810NoNo
18422584Criticality-Informed Caching Policies with Multiple Criticality LevelsJanuary 2024October 2024Allow900NoNo
18420803METHOD FOR ACCESSING FLASH MEMORY MODULE AND ASSOCIATED FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY DEVICEJanuary 2024August 2025Allow1910NoNo
18418115SYSTEM SETTING INCLUDING OPERATING FREQUENCY OF RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY BASED ON CACHE HIT RATIO AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1310NoNo
18416558MEMORY DEVICE, SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY DEVICEJanuary 2024February 2026Allow2520YesNo
18405946DYNAMICALLY SIZED REDUNDANT WRITE BUFFER WITH SECTOR-BASED TRACKINGJanuary 2024October 2024Allow900NoNo
18403273SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORAGE DEVICE RESOURCE MANAGEMENTJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210YesNo
18398630DATA MANAGEMENT ACROSS A PERSISTENT MEMORY TIER AND A FILE SYSTEM TIERDecember 2023February 2025Allow1410YesNo
18525733STORAGE DEVICE SUPPORTING TRIM OPERATION AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMENovember 2023July 2025Allow2010YesNo
18517513SECURE MEMORY ACCESS IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTNovember 2023October 2025Allow2230NoYes
18501844METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES FOR EVICTING MEMORY BLOCK IN CACHENovember 2023July 2025Allow2010NoNo
18483486SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING WITH MULTIPLE NODESOctober 2023June 2025Allow2020YesNo
18480031Artificial Intelligence Model For Optimal Storage System OperationOctober 2023March 2025Allow1700NoNo
18376122Data Storage Device and Method for Delaying Execution of a Host Write Command to Perform an Internal Memory OperationOctober 2023May 2025Allow2010YesNo
18370564STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROLLERSeptember 2023July 2025Allow2120YesNo
18469857Scaling Storage Resources Based On Storage Volume UsageSeptember 2023November 2025Allow2550YesNo
18467570METADATA CHECKING WITH ZERO STORAGE OVERHEADSeptember 2023December 2024Allow1500NoNo
18368493CORE GROUP MEMORY PROCESSING WITH MULTI-PRECISION WEIGHT PACKINGSeptember 2023July 2025Allow2210NoNo
18462561SHARED BUFFERED MEMORY ROUTINGSeptember 2023May 2025Allow2000NoNo
18458288COMPUTER SYSTEMAugust 2023February 2025Allow1810NoNo
18233125DATA STORAGE DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR USE WITH A GENERATIVE-ADVERSARIAL-NETWORK (GAN)August 2023April 2025Allow2010NoNo
18448325FACILITATING IMMEDIATE PERFORMANCE OF VOLUME RESYNCHRONIZATION WITH THE USE OF PASSIVE CACHE ENTRIESAugust 2023May 2024Allow1000NoNo
18447204CONTROLLER, STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATION TO BALANCE MEMORY DEGRADATIONAugust 2023January 2026Allow2920YesNo
18365216STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF OPERATING CONTROLLERAugust 2023May 2025Allow2120YesNo
18364542DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CONTROL METHODAugust 2023March 2025Allow2010NoNo
18360131MEMORY CONTROLLER, MEMORY DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAMEJuly 2023March 2025Allow1910NoNo
18351700Pattern Forming For Heterogeneous Erase BlocksJuly 2023January 2025Allow1820YesNo
18221564METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA STORAGEJuly 2023February 2025Allow1910NoNo
18261099OVERLAY SIZE DETERMINATIONSJuly 2023December 2024Allow1710NoNo
18349318COLLECTIVE OPERATION USING A NETWORK-ATTACHED MEMORYJuly 2023March 2026Allow3240YesNo
18349206SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING MEMORY TABLESJuly 2023January 2025Allow1910NoNo
18219413REDUCING TIME-TAG READ ERRORS WITH RESPECT TO NON-VOLATILE MEMORY STRUCTURESJuly 2023October 2025Allow2730NoNo
18346698SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAGE MIRRORING FOR STORAGEJuly 2023July 2025Allow2420YesNo
18339090METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTIONJune 2023November 2024Allow1710NoNo
18333986DEDUPLICATING DATA CHUNKS USING CHUNK OBJECTSJune 2023August 2024Allow1500NoNo
18207570FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT OF LEAST RECENTLY USED MEMORY FOR CACHE HINT OPTIMIZATIONJune 2023July 2024Allow1300NoNo
18327165MEMORY SYSTEM AND STORAGE DEVICEJune 2023August 2024Allow1410NoNo
18203186TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER (TLB) PREFETCHER WITH MULTI- LEVEL TLB PREFETCHES AND FEEDBACK ARCHITECTUREMay 2023April 2025Allow2320YesNo
18199422CONTROLLER FOR A MEMORY DEVICE AND A STORAGE DEVICEMay 2023August 2025Allow2730YesNo
18037087Method and Apparatus for Controlling Read Timing, and Computer-Readable Storage MediumMay 2023January 2025Allow2110NoNo
18196041STORAGE DEVICE, MEMORY DEVICE, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMEMay 2023October 2025Allow2930YesNo
18313688SIMILARITY-BASED GENERATIVE AI OUTPUT FILTERINGMay 2023January 2026Allow3200NoNo
18310741METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING MEMORY MAPSMay 2023January 2025Allow2010YesNo
18311052RESULT REGISTER WITH READOUT COUNTER VALUEMay 2023November 2024Allow1910YesNo
18310268SINGLE-BIT MEMORY ERROR DETECTIONMay 2023November 2024Allow1810YesNo
18308704READ ACCESS DURING CLONE VOLUME SPLIT OPERATIONApril 2023July 2024Allow1500NoNo
18140808METHODS FOR MANAGING STORAGE SYSTEMS WITH DUAL-PORT SOLID-STATE DISKS ACCESSIBLE BY MULTIPLE HOSTS AND DEVICES THEREOFApril 2023March 2024Allow1100NoNo
18139291EFFICIENTLY STORING DATA IN A CLOUD STORAGEApril 2023September 2024Allow1710NoNo
18303183NON-STALLING, NON-BLOCKING TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER INVALIDATIONApril 2023September 2024Allow1710NoNo
18130103MULTI-RESOLUTION CACHEApril 2023April 2024Allow1210NoNo
18191930ARITHMETIC PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ARITHMETIC PROCESSING METHODMarch 2023October 2025Abandon3130NoNo
18127922STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE SYSTEM AND THROTTLING METHOD THEREOFMarch 2023October 2024Allow1910YesNo
18127054PSEUDO OUT-OF-ORDER STORE COMMITMarch 2023February 2025Allow2320YesNo
18126762METHOD, DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLER, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SEQUENTIAL STORAGE DEVICES IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENTMarch 2023April 2025Allow2530YesNo
18187027PIPELINED READ-MODIFY-WRITE OPERATIONS IN CACHE MEMORYMarch 2023August 2025Allow2900NoNo
18183134Allocation Of Differing Erase Block SizesMarch 2023March 2025Allow2420NoYes
18181277COMMAND LOOPBACK FOR POWER LOSS PROTECTION (PLP) ABORT IN DATA STORAGE DEVICEMarch 2023July 2025Allow2830NoNo
18024732DATA SET AND NODE CACHE-BASED SCHEDULING METHOD AND DEVICEMarch 2023May 2023Allow300NoNo
18116793REQUIREMENTS DRIVEN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR TECHNICAL CONFIGURATIONMarch 2023November 2025Allow3300NoNo
18042673ACCESS TO VOLATILE MEMORIESFebruary 2023December 2024Abandon2210NoNo
18101502USING RESOURCE POOL ADMINISTRATIVE ENTITIES TO PROVIDE SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE TO TENANTSJanuary 2023November 2023Allow910NoNo
18068670Programmable Data Storage Memory HierarchyDecember 2022June 2025Allow3040YesNo
18065096CREATING CLOUD-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS USING STORED DATASETSDecember 2022April 2024Allow1620YesNo
18077036DYNAMICALLY SIZED REDUNDANT WRITE BUFFER WITH SECTOR-BASED TRACKINGDecember 2022October 2023Allow1020YesNo
17991602TRAINING A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH ALIGNMENT MODEL BASED ON PREDICTED ALIGNMENT PROBABILITIES AND ALIGNMENT DIFFICULTY DEGREES OF ENTITY PAIRSNovember 2022January 2026Allow4910YesNo
18052297SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TORQUE-BASED STRUCTURED PRUNING FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKSNovember 2022December 2025Allow3710YesNo
17974410ELASTIC BUFFER FOR MEDIA MANAGEMENT OF A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEMOctober 2022January 2025Allow2720NoNo
18046186SOLVING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS ON SHALLOW CIRCUITS USING A QUANTUM COMPUTEROctober 2022February 2026Allow4010NoNo
17963824CLASSIFYING ELEMENTS IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE MODEL USING CONVOLUTIONAL GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKSOctober 2022November 2025Allow3710NoNo
17959724NOTIFYING MEMORY SYSTEM OF HOST EVENTS VIA MODULATED RESET SIGNALSOctober 2022March 2024Allow1820NoNo
17956136WRITE CONTROL FOR READ-MODIFY-WRITE OPERATIONS IN CACHE MEMORYSeptember 2022January 2024Allow1610NoNo
17823307EVICTING A CACHE LINE WITH PENDING CONTROL REQUESTAugust 2022February 2024Allow1710NoNo
17893656OBJECT STORAGE BASED ASYNCHRONOUS MAILBOX, EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY FOR CROSS-REGION COMMUNICATIONAugust 2022May 2024Allow2000NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner KHAN, MASUD K.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
11
Examiner Affirmed
8
(72.7%)
Examiner Reversed
3
(27.3%)
Reversal Percentile
43.0%
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
19
Allowed After Appeal Filing
8
(42.1%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
11
(57.9%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
69.8%
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, 42.1% 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 KHAN, MASUD K - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner KHAN, MASUD K works in Art Unit 2132 and has examined 184 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 93.5%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 23 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner KHAN, MASUD K's allowance rate of 93.5% places them in the 81% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by KHAN, MASUD K receive 2.11 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 56% 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 KHAN, MASUD K is 23 months. This places the examiner in the 85% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a -7.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by KHAN, MASUD K. This interview benefit is in the 4% 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, 27.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 47% 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 41.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 63% 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 59% 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 59.3% of appeals filed. This is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 43.8% 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, 100.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 90% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 10% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 2.3% of allowed cases (in the 70% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

    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

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