Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18822415 | STORAGE CONTROLLER, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE DEVICE | September 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18761596 | INTELLIGENT UPGRADE PROCESS IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM | July 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18625628 | MANAGING CACHE LINE LOGGING BASED ON MEMORY PAGE CLEANLINESS | April 2024 | January 2026 | Abandon | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18581944 | TECHNIQUES FOR LOG ORDERING TO OPTIMIZE WRITE LATENCY IN SYSTEMS ASSIGNING LOGICAL ADDRESS OWNERSHIP | February 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18477378 | AUTOMATED RECONSTRUCTION AND ATTRIBUTION OF DATA MODIFICATIONS | September 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18232155 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR USE WITH A GENERATIVE-ADVERSARIAL-NETWORK (GAN) | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18215147 | MEMORY DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18094994 | FLASH MEMORY SCHEME CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING FLASH MEMORY DEVICE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING DEBUG INFORMATION AND TRANSMITTING DEBUG INFORMATION BACK TO FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER WITH MAKING MEMORY CELL ARRAY GENERATING ERRORS | January 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18087794 | CYCLIC BACKUP METHOD AND RELATED SOLID-STATE DISK DEVICE | December 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 38 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17983524 | Self-Detecting and Data Rewriting System and Application Method Thereof | November 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17977934 | HANDLING SEMIDURABLE WRITES IN A STORAGE SYSTEM | October 2022 | January 2026 | Abandon | 39 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17903724 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD | September 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17732065 | PREFETCHING KEYS FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17715799 | RESEQUENCING DATA PROGRAMMED TO MULTIPLE LEVEL MEMORY CELLS AT A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | April 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17709699 | Data Storage Device and Method for Executing a Low-Priority Speculative Read Command from a Host | March 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17678424 | QUAD-LEVEL CELLS MAPPED IN A MEMORY DEVICE OF AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM | February 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17650608 | DATA TRANSFERS IN NEURAL PROCESSING | February 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17550773 | Burn-In Solid State Drives through Generation of Proof of Space Plots in A Manufacturing Facility | December 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17515705 | Recording a trace of code execution using reference bits in a processor cache | November 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17379345 | STREAMING ENGINE WITH FETCH AHEAD HYSTERESIS | July 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17375329 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE PERSISTENT HOST METADATA LOGS IN NVME SSD | July 2021 | December 2024 | Abandon | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17340866 | TECHNIQUES TO REPURPOSE STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY ROWS TO STORE A LOOK-UP-TABLE FOR PROCESSOR-IN-MEMORY OPERATIONS | June 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 41 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17218537 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ATTACHING DATA AND ITS LIFETIME TO A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTITES | March 2021 | March 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17177368 | CACHE MANAGEMENT FOR SEARCH OPTIMIZATION | February 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17176596 | CACHE MANAGEMENT FOR SEARCH OPTIMIZATION | February 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17161785 | CACHE MANAGEMENT FOR SEARCH OPTIMIZATION | January 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17130485 | MEMORY DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | December 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17113699 | DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING MEMORY POOL SUBINSTANCES | December 2020 | May 2025 | Allow | 53 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17006502 | DURABLE DATA STORAGE WITH SNAPSHOT STORAGE SPACE OPTIMIZATION | August 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16983779 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR WRITE ADDRESS TRACKING | August 2020 | May 2024 | Abandon | 45 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16925874 | PARALLEL UPDATE FOR A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM | July 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16860151 | STREAMING ENGINE WITH FETCH AHEAD HYSTERESIS | April 2020 | March 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16840086 | System and Method for Performing and Verifying Data Erasure | April 2020 | May 2025 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16827565 | MAINTAINING PARTITION-LEVEL PARITY DATA FOR IMPROVED VOLUME DURABILITY | March 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 49 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16824807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF SSD CRITICAL TEMPERATURE THRESHOLD BASED ON MEMORY SIZE | March 2020 | March 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16813519 | DEVICE INFORMATION SHARING BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF LOGICAL PARTITIONS (LPARs) | March 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16811682 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, SYSTEM-ON-CHIP INCLUDING THE SAME, AND PACKET PROCESSING METHOD | March 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16808163 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM | March 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16806192 | MEMORY SYSTEM | March 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 50 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16805591 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF EFFICIENTLY STORING DATA | February 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16801037 | STORING OBJECTS IN DATA STRUCTURES | February 2020 | September 2022 | Abandon | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16795601 | DATA WRITING METHOD, MEMORY CONTROLLING CIRCUIT UNIT AND MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE | February 2020 | September 2024 | Abandon | 55 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
| 16795536 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT TO ENHANCE DATA RELIABILITY WITH AID OF REPEATED WRITE COMMAND DETECTION | February 2020 | November 2023 | Abandon | 45 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16718162 | PREFETCH LEVEL DEMOTION | December 2019 | April 2025 | Abandon | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16712483 | Method And System For Memory Oversubscription For Virtual Machines | December 2019 | February 2024 | Allow | 50 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16696764 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | November 2019 | June 2022 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16686564 | RECORDING A TRACE OF CODE EXECUTION USING RESERVED CACHE LINES IN A CACHE | November 2019 | July 2021 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16657518 | STORAGE ARRAY DATA PROTECTION USING VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA PROTECTION | October 2019 | March 2024 | Allow | 53 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 16653931 | MEMORY COMMAND QUEUE MANAGEMENT | October 2019 | February 2022 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16591325 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | October 2019 | August 2021 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16588903 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STORAGE MANAGEMENT | September 2019 | July 2022 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16587970 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR I/O CONTROL | September 2019 | September 2022 | Allow | 36 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16564898 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | September 2019 | September 2023 | Allow | 48 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16530111 | HOST CACHE COHERENCY WHEN READING DATA | August 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16529672 | MEMORY DISAGGREGATION FOR COMPUTE NODES | August 2019 | August 2021 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16417669 | Coherent capturing of shared-buffer status | May 2019 | September 2022 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16415995 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING DATA READ/WRITE COMMAND IN NVME OVER FABRIC ARCHITECTURE | May 2019 | May 2023 | Allow | 48 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16415468 | System and Method for Tying Non-Volatile Dual Inline Memory Modules to a Particular Information Handling System | May 2019 | April 2022 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16415808 | FAILURE-BASED STORAGE REBUILDING | May 2019 | March 2023 | Abandon | 46 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16379303 | DATA CACHING | April 2019 | August 2020 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16377470 | FACILITATING RECORDING A TRACE FILE OF CODE EXECUTION USING INDEX BITS IN A PROCESSOR CACHE | April 2019 | May 2021 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16356004 | OBJECT SYNCHRONIZATION IN A CLUSTERED SYSTEM | March 2019 | May 2019 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16356025 | OBJECT SYNCHRONIZATION IN A CLUSTERED SYSTEM | March 2019 | May 2019 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16356066 | OBJECT SYNCHRONIZATION IN A CLUSTERED SYSTEM | March 2019 | September 2020 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16283128 | BIPOLAR DECODER FOR CROSSPOINT MEMORY CELLS | February 2019 | April 2021 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16279757 | STREAMING ENGINE WITH FETCH AHEAD HYSTERESIS | February 2019 | December 2019 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16276706 | STORAGE DEVICES, DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OPERATING STORAGE DEVICES | February 2019 | February 2022 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16264855 | CACHE MANAGEMENT FOR SEARCH OPTIMIZATION | February 2019 | December 2020 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16259138 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | January 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 47 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16321063 | MEMORY ALLOCATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | January 2019 | August 2023 | Allow | 55 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16256278 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME | January 2019 | August 2021 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16249649 | LIGHT-WEIGHT MEMORY EXPANSION IN A COHERENT MEMORY SYSTEM | January 2019 | February 2021 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16248544 | Multi Cloud Asynchronous Active/Active Transactional Storage for Availability | January 2019 | June 2021 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16237018 | INDUCTIVE COMPENSATION IN MEMORY SYSTEMS | December 2018 | March 2021 | Abandon | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16213517 | Storage Pool Capacity Management | December 2018 | August 2019 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16174631 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLE ADDRESS REGISTERS FOR A SOLID STATE DEVICE | October 2018 | June 2019 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16155713 | SHARED LIBRARY IN A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM | October 2018 | February 2022 | Abandon | 40 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16046396 | CONTROLLED CACHE INJECTION OF INCOMING DATA | July 2018 | October 2018 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15940712 | STORING CACHE LINES IN DEDICATED CACHE OF AN IDLE CORE | March 2018 | August 2020 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15940961 | OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LEVEL HASHING FUNCTION FOR STORAGE ADDRESS DETERMINATION | March 2018 | December 2020 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15905884 | MEMORY AFFINITY MANAGEMENT | February 2018 | May 2018 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15899659 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICE | February 2018 | May 2021 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15885383 | DETERMINATION OF A MATCH BETWEEN DATA VALUES STORED BY THREE OR MORE ARRAYS | January 2018 | July 2021 | Allow | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15885323 | EFFICIENT SPACE RECLAMATION IN DEDUPLICATION SYSTEMS | January 2018 | November 2021 | Allow | 46 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15883547 | OBJECT SYNCHRONIZATION IN A CLUSTERED SYSTEM | January 2018 | November 2018 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15874165 | MEMORY INTERFACE INITIALIZATION WITH PROCESSOR IN RESET | January 2018 | June 2018 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15827746 | MEMORY ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD | November 2017 | September 2020 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15813967 | MEMORY DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | November 2017 | September 2020 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15810284 | REDUCING CACHE THRASHING FOR COUNTS IN HOT CACHE LINES | November 2017 | October 2019 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15808436 | PARALLEL UPDATE TO MAINTAIN COHERENCY | November 2017 | March 2020 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15797324 | Virtual Storage Domain for A Content Addressable System | October 2017 | March 2021 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15797423 | METHODS FOR ACCELERATING COMPRESSION AND APPARATUSES USING THE SAME | October 2017 | November 2020 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15797344 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM EMPLOYING SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FUNCTIONAL MODULES | October 2017 | June 2020 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15794013 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT | October 2017 | March 2020 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15794122 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | October 2017 | March 2021 | Abandon | 40 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15794085 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME | October 2017 | December 2020 | Abandon | 38 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15794008 | Memory interface for a Secure NOR Flash Memory | October 2017 | June 2020 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15794423 | ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE TRIGGER MECHANISM OF A GARBAGE COLLECTION FUNCTION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF | October 2017 | March 2020 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15726353 | DATA BACKUP METHOD, DATA RECOVERY METHOD AND STORAGE CONTROLLER | October 2017 | October 2019 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15725981 | LOADING A SERIAL PRESENCE DETECT TABLE ACCORDING TO JUMPER SETTINGS | October 2017 | December 2019 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner OTTO, ALAN.
With a 25.0% 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.
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, 35.3% 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.
⚠ 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 OTTO, ALAN works in Art Unit 2132 and has examined 247 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 76.9%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 32 months.
Examiner OTTO, ALAN's allowance rate of 76.9% places them in the 43% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by OTTO, ALAN receive 2.38 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 68% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by OTTO, ALAN is 32 months. This places the examiner in the 50% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +8.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by OTTO, ALAN. This interview benefit is in the 40% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 23.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 32% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 14.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 15% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 40.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 36% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 61.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 39% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 15.4% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 31.6% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 19% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.
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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 10% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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