Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19146906 | SOLID-STATE DISK BLOCK CORRECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2025 | March 2026 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18884795 | Mechanisms For Arbitrating Among Packets In One Or More Co-Packaged Integrated Circuits | September 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18783168 | ADAPTIVE TRACKING OF DATA PATTERNS FOR DEDUPLICATION | July 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18745473 | HYBRID CACHE COHERENCY | June 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18715719 | METHOD FOR STORING AND ACCESSING A DATA OPERAND IN A MEMORY UNIT | June 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18655653 | ON-CHIP INTERCONNECT FOR MEMORY CHANNEL CONTROLLERS | May 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18643160 | STORAGE DEVICE BASED ON FLASH MEMORY AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PREFETCH DATA THEREOF | April 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18621381 | Modifying System Directory Capacity based on Power State Transition | March 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18615659 | Sharing State Information Using Shared Memory | March 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18612728 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIMARY STORAGE WRITE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT | March 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18593806 | Intelligent Allocation of Read and Write Buffers in Memory Sub-Systems | March 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18433118 | Coherence Directory Way Tracking in Coherent Agents | February 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18423766 | Efficient Hash Table Lookup | January 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18407465 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING SUDDEN POWER LOSS OF STORAGE DEVICE | January 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18404348 | NMP EMULATOR BASED ON NUMA ARCHITECTURE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18574277 | A DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING STALLED DATA | December 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18573913 | RECEIVING EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS FROM VOLATILE MEMORY | December 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18393650 | NEW METHOD TO IMPLEMENT SET-ASSOCIATIVE CACHE CONTROLLER | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18517866 | HIGH BANDWIDTH GATHER CACHE | November 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18562743 | DYNAMIC CACHE COHERENCE PROTOCOL BASED ON RUNTIME INTERCONNECT UTILIZATION | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18511484 | EMERGENCY DATA STORING OPERATION SELECTION | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18505952 | MANAGING A SYSTEM LEVEL CACHE | November 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18504985 | DATA BLOCK REFRESH DURING READ ACCESS | November 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18386683 | CACHE LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18497005 | WRITE MERGING ON STORES WITH DIFFERENT PRIVILEGE LEVELS | October 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18494476 | METHOD AND DEVICE WITH DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF SWAPPING | October 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18494196 | PROCESSING METADATA CHANGES USING MULTIPLE AGGREGATION POLICIES | October 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18492762 | STORAGE DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE, AND STORAGE SYSTEM USING THE SAME | October 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18478576 | COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE WITH DISAGGREGATED MEMORY AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION INTERCONNECTS | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18476659 | CACHE LOOKUP RESPONSE FILTERING | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18370635 | MEMORY DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND MEMORY SYSTEM | September 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18469825 | WRITE MERGING ON STORES WITH DIFFERENT TAGS | September 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18457252 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | August 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18452197 | COMPOSABLE INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLED BY HETEROGENEOUS ARCHITECTURE, DELIVERED BY CXL BASED CACHED SWITCH SOC AND EXTENSIBLE VIA CXLOVERETHERNET (COE) PROTOCOLS | August 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18229179 | HYPERVISOR-ASSISTED MIGRATION OR CLONING OF EAGER-ZEROED VIRTUAL DISKS | August 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18357798 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALABLE AND COHERENT MEMORY DEVICES | July 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18353495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TASKS IN A STORAGE DEVICE | July 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18221554 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING WRITE CONFLICTS | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18351202 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF TO PROVIDE PERFORMANCE CORRESPONDING TO A PERFORMANCE INDEX | July 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18214286 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHE MANAGEMENT OF A STORAGE DEVICE | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18340359 | DYNAMIC EXTENSION AND DE-ALLOCATION OF CACHE COHERENCE SNOOP FILTER ENTRY | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18337104 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE WRITE MISS CACHING IN CACHE SYSTEM | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18330360 | Compute Express Link™ (CXL) Over Ethernet (COE) | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18329277 | RECONFIGURABLE CACHE HIERARCHY FRAMEWORK FOR THE STORAGE OF FPGA BITSTREAMS | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18322510 | SAS DRIVER-LEVEL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPGRADING FIRMWARE FOR DISK ARRAY ENCLOSURES (DAES) | May 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199898 | OPTIMIZING STORAGE OF A LARGE VOLUME OF DATA | May 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199784 | NON-CACHEABLE ACCESS HANDLING IN PROCESSOR WITH VIRTUALLY-TAGGED VIRTUALLY-INDEXED DATA CACHE | May 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18320780 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED POINTER IDENTIFICATION AND PREFETCHING | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18141463 | Load-Store Pipeline Selection For Vectors | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18129436 | MEMORY SPRINTING | March 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18188256 | MEMORY DEVICE PERFORMING REFRESH OPERATION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18113132 | VALIDATION OF STORE COHERENCE RELATIVE TO PAGE TRANSLATION INVALIDATION | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18111920 | CACHE MEMORY SYSTEM AND CACHE MEMORY CONTROL METHOD | February 2023 | November 2024 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18096740 | COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE WITH DISAGGREGATED MEMORY AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION INTERCONNECTS | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18151645 | COMPUTATIONAL SSD ACCELERATING DEEP LEARNING SERVICE ON LARGE-SCALE GRAPHS | January 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18092982 | STORAGE DEVICE STORING DATA BASED ON KEY-VALUE AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SAME | January 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18092158 | MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CHIP AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CHIP | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18149013 | COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE WITH DISAGGREGATED MEMORY AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION INTERCONNECTS | December 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18069576 | Data Management Method for Application, System, and Computer Device | December 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18068891 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | December 2022 | November 2024 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17991926 | ATOMIC OPERATIONS AND HISTOGRAM OPERATIONS IN A CACHE PIPELINE | November 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17988892 | PREFETCH OFFSET SELECTION | November 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17982467 | DATA STRUCTURE OPTIMIZED DEDICATED MEMORY CACHES | November 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17980919 | ZONED NAMESPACES FOR COMPUTING DEVICE MAIN MEMORY | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17970676 | VIRTUAL CONTAINER STORAGE INTERFACE CONTROLLER | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17968938 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF | October 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17966071 | CONTROLLING DATA ALLOCATION TO STORAGE CIRCUITRY | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17962192 | MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING WEAR-LEVELING ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON MEMORY COMPONENT ENDURANCE ESTIMATIONS | October 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17958604 | METHODS OF OPERATING HOST DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | October 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17952268 | Multi-Level Cell Memory Management | September 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17950189 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD | September 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17943767 | PARALLEL FRAGMENTED SGL FETCHING FOR HIDING HOST TURNAROUND TIME | September 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17895766 | STATUS MANAGEMENT IN STORAGE BACKED MEMORY PACKAGE | August 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17893333 | PROCESSOR AND ARITHMETIC PROCESSING METHOD | August 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17814261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ADDRESS MAPPING RELATIONSHIP, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17813286 | METADATA ALLOCATION IN MEMORY SYSTEMS | July 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17812861 | SCALED ZERO-TOUCH OPERATING SYSTEM PROVISIONING ON TARGETED STORAGE | July 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17865594 | ADAPTIVE COMPRESSION FOR ACCELERATOR DEVICES | July 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17863062 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXCHANGING NETWORK PACKETS BETWEEN HOST AND MEMORY MODULE USING MULTIPLE QUEUES | July 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17810323 | STORAGE DEVICE, AND HOST-STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE STORAGE DEVICE | June 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17854772 | METHOD AND NMP DIMM FOR MANAGING ADDRESS MAP | June 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17809484 | COMPOSABLE INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLED BY HETEROGENEOUS ARCHITECTURE, DELIVERED BY CXL BASED CACHED SWITCH SOC AND EXTENSIBLE VIA CXLOVERETHERNET (COE) PROTOCOLS | June 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 33 | 5 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17849117 | MEMORY CONTROLLER WITH PSEUDO-CHANNEL SUPPORT | June 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17844783 | CONVOLUTION TIME DE-INTERLEAVER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A CONVOLUTION TIME DE-INTERLEAVER | June 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17845485 | BURST READ DATA STORAGE | June 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17845263 | APPROACH FOR PROCESSING NEAR-MEMORY PROCESSING COMMANDS USING NEAR-MEMORY REGISTER DEFINITION DATA | June 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17844583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING VIRTUAL ADDRESSING TO EXECUTE APPLICATION IMAGES | June 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17842257 | WRITE MERGING ON STORES WITH DIFFERENT PRIVILEGE LEVELS | June 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17834682 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING COMBINED PRIVATE AND SHARED CACHE LEVELS IN A PROCESSOR-BASED SYSTEM | June 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17833126 | Efficient Hash Table Lookup | June 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17829563 | Data Storage Device and Method for Energy Feedback and Report Generation | June 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17826757 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REDUCING GLOBAL COHERENCE UNIT SNOOP FILTER LOOKUP VIA LOCAL MEMORIES | May 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17744810 | WRITE MERGING ON STORES WITH DIFFERENT TAGS | May 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17710813 | BUFFER COMMUNICATION FOR DATA BUFFERS SUPPORTING MULTIPLE PSEUDO CHANNELS | March 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 41 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17700187 | COMMAND BUS IN MEMORY | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17698973 | PROTECTION AGAINST TRANSLATION LOOKUP REQUEST FLOODING | March 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 45 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17689059 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND FILE ARRANGEMENT METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM | March 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17681449 | OPTIMIZATION FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION IN A STORAGE SYSTEM | February 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17680773 | STORAGE DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE, AND STORAGE SYSTEM USING THE SAME | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17680739 | CACHE SPACE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS | February 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner CHOI, CHARLES J.
With a 12.5% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
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, 9.1% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.
⚠ 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 CHOI, CHARLES J works in Art Unit 2133 and has examined 275 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 81.1%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 28 months.
Examiner CHOI, CHARLES J's allowance rate of 81.1% places them in the 52% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by CHOI, CHARLES J receive 2.34 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 66% 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 CHOI, CHARLES J is 28 months. This places the examiner in the 68% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +7.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by CHOI, CHARLES J. This interview benefit is in the 35% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 28.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 53% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 21.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 27% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 5% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show limited success with this examiner compared to others. While still worth considering, be prepared to proceed with a full appeal brief if the PAC does not result in favorable action.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 52.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 24% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 22.2% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 44.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 37% 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'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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