Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18760849 | ON-DEMAND ACTIVATION OF MEMORY PATH DURING SLEEP OR ACTIVE MODES | July 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18749424 | METHOD, BRIDGING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND MEDIUM OF VIRTUALIZATION PROCESSING OF STORAGE DEVICE | June 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18622132 | INTERNAL CLOCK SIGNALING | March 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18540244 | FLASH REGISTRY WITH ON-DISK HASHING | December 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18531329 | CONCURRENT COMMAND LIMITER FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM | December 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18514633 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME, AND MEMORY ACCESS MONITORING METHOD THEREOF | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18241942 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING VARIABLE LENGTH DATA BLOCKS IN MEMORY | September 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18447496 | TECHNIQUES FOR EXTENDING A WRITE CACHE | August 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18224523 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING COMMANDS FOR STORAGE DEVICES | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18215117 | CACHE BYPASS | June 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18258849 | TECHNIQUE FOR TRACKING MODIFICATION OF CONTENT OF REGIONS OF MEMORY | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18200851 | SPLIT PROTOCOL APPROACHES FOR ENABLING DEVICES WITH ENHANCED PERSISTENT MEMORY REGION ACCESS | May 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18144864 | METHOD OF MANAGING GARBAGE COLLECTION OPERATION IN FLASH MEMORY BASED ON TYPES OF SOURCE BLOCKS AND RELATED MEMORY CONTROLLER AND STORAGE SYSTEM | May 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18307097 | DYNAMIC QUALITY OF SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION BASED UPON RESOURCE SATURATION | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18132564 | BIN-LESS METADATA PAGES ALLOCATOR FOR STORAGE CLUSTER WITH LOG-STRUCTURED METADATA | April 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18132572 | Downgrading a Permission Associated with Data Stored in a Cache | April 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18246475 | Method and Apparatus for Closing Open Block in SSD | March 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18118946 | CACHING TECHNIQUES USING A MAPPING CACHE AND MAINTAINING CACHE COHERENCY USING HASH VALUES | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18116683 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PARALLEL ACCESS OF PROCESSORS TO STORAGE AREAS | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18099615 | WRITE DETERMINATION COUNTER | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18155071 | CONTROL METHOD FOR REQUESTING STATUS OF FLASH MEMORY, FLASH MEMORY SYSTEM | January 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18093841 | CENTRALIZED, SCALABLE CACHE FOR CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT | January 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18012933 | METADATA VOLUME BITMAP DATA CONFLICT PROCESSING METHOD AND RELATED COMPONENTS | December 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17928150 | METHOD FOR DILUTING CACHE SPACE, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM | November 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17981149 | ON-DEMAND ACTIVATION OF MEMORY PATH DURING SLEEP OR ACTIVE MODES | November 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17977975 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR PRIORITIZING READ ACCESSES TO STORAGE DEVICES | October 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17973135 | CONTROLLING MEMORY STORAGE BASED ON PATTERN DATA | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18046304 | DYNAMIC TUNING OF GARBAGE THRESHOLD TO REDUCE UNRECLAIMABLE GARBAGE OVERHEAD | October 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18046364 | DATA READ-WRITE METHOD AND APPARATUS AND CIRCULAR QUEUE | October 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17937292 | OFF-CHIP MEMORY SHARED BY MULTIPLE PROCESSING NODES | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17937068 | MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING A NONVOLATILE MEMORY WITH CONFIGURABLE CAPACITY FOR PROVIDING HOST DATA | September 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17932073 | STORAGE DEVICE CONTROLLED BY TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT OPERATION COMMANDS | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17908879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHING METADATA | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17898997 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF FOR PERFORMING RE-ORDERING OPERATION BASED ON TEMPERATURE INCREMENT | August 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17861467 | ADJUSTMENT OF A STARTING VOLTAGE CORRESPONDING TO A PROGRAM OPERATION IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | July 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17852366 | TRANSFER OF INTERNAL DEVICE DATA OVER COMMAND RESPONSE | June 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17850595 | ASYNCHRONOUS PROCESS TOPOLOGY IN A MEMORY DEVICE | June 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17807358 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA TO MEMORY ARRAY, AND STORAGE APPARATUS | June 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17831203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFRAGMENTATION OF MEMORY DEVICE | June 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17730958 | SCANNING TECHNIQUES FOR A MEDIA-MANAGEMENT OPERATION OF A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | April 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17658292 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING MEMORY BUFFER USAGE WHILE PROCESSING COMPUTER SYSTEM OPERATIONS | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17694237 | HYBRID DATA TRANSFER MODEL FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE BACKUP AND RECOVERY | March 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17692255 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING A STORAGE CONTROL UNIT THAT PERFORMS A DATA AMOUNT REDUCTION PROCESSING AND AN ACCELERATOR | March 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17588120 | DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE CACHING BY REALLOCATION OF STORAGE CACHING USING TOKENS AND AGENTS WITH NON-DEPLETED CACHE ALLOCATIONS | January 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17573567 | STATUS CHECKING METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | January 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17647699 | TECHNIQUES FOR ATOMIC WRITE OPERATIONS | January 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17572917 | Data Storage Device and Method for Providing an Adaptive Data Path | January 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17571841 | Data Storage Device and Method for Memory-Die-State-Aware Host Command Submission | January 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17568956 | EFFICIENTLY STORING COMPUTER PROCESSOR DATA STRUCTURES IN COMPUTER MEMORY | January 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17559480 | Transferring of Snapshot Data Blocks to a Virtual Storage Volume | December 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17539500 | FLASH REGISTRY WITH ON-DISK HASHING | December 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17505853 | ADAPTIVE FILE STORAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS | October 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17506212 | Data Storage Devices, Systems, and Related Methods for Grouping Commands of Doorbell Transactions from Host Devices | October 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17494007 | METHOD OF OPERATING A MEMORY CONTROLLER IN WHICH COMMANDS ARE STORED IN URGENT OR NORMAL QUEUES BASED ON PRIORITY. A NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A BUFFER SELECTOR AND A STORAGE DEVICE THEREOF | October 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17464868 | MEMORY DICE INTERNAL CLOCK | September 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17462289 | RAPID RELIABLE FILE SYSTEM ACCESS | August 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17461902 | MANAGING A MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICES WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS | August 2021 | December 2024 | Abandon | 39 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17459343 | CONCURRENT COMMAND LIMITER FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM | August 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17410657 | Multi-Activation Techniques for Partial Write Operations | August 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17427169 | BACKUP RESTORATION METHOD AND BACKUP RESTORATION DEVICE | July 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17389856 | PRE-EMPTIVE STORAGE STRATEGIES TO REDUCE HOST COMMAND COLLISIONS | July 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17373301 | NAND TEMPERATURE-AWARE OPERATIONS | July 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17357007 | EFFICIENT RANK SWITCHING IN MULTI-RANK MEMORY CONTROLLER | June 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17304241 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A STORAGE SYSTEM | June 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17344230 | MEMORY SYSTEM WITH WRITE MODES BASED ON AN INTERNAL STATE OF A MEMORY CONTROLLER | June 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17338507 | FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS FOR A STORAGE SUPPORTING A PLURALITY OF SUBMISSION QUEUES | June 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17338246 | MEMORY SYSTEM FOR SUSPENDING AND RESUMING EXECUTION OF COMMAND ACCORDING TO LOCK OR UNLOCK REQUEST, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | June 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17227473 | LAST WRITTEN PAGE SEARCHING | April 2021 | September 2023 | Abandon | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17218676 | WRITE BANK GROUP MASK DURING ARBITRATION | March 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17194298 | Memory Controller Utilizing Sets of Access Settings Corresponding to Memory Dies, and Control Method thereof | March 2021 | August 2023 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17171599 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY WITH ENCODING FOR FOGGY-FINE PROGRAMMING WITH SOFT BITS | February 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17169139 | METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONFIGURING RELIABLE COMMAND | February 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17160059 | STORAGE DEVICE WITH IMPROVED READ LATENCY AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | January 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17149353 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF FOR CONTROLLING A MULTI-PLANE READ OPERATION | January 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17147834 | SPLIT PROTOCOL APPROACHES FOR ENABLING DEVICES WITH ENHANCED PERSISTENT MEMORY REGION ACCESS | January 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17139496 | REUSING REMOTE REGISTERS IN PROCESSING IN MEMORY | December 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 44 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17134803 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING VARIABLE LENGTH DATA BLOCKS IN MEMORY | December 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17111407 | RETRANSMITTING MESSAGES BASED ON COMMAND QUEUE DEPTH IN A MEMORY SUBSYSTEM | December 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17096163 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS INPUT/OUTPUT SCANNING AND AGGREGATION FOR SOLID STATE DRIVE | November 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17082933 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESOURCE-BASED SCHEDULING OF COMMANDS | October 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17067698 | STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF THAT OUTPUTS STATUS INFORMATION AND READ DATA TOGETHER | October 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 46 | 5 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16982483 | DYNAMIC CHANNEL MAPPING FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM | September 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17024598 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING COMMANDS FOR STORAGE DEVICES | September 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16997055 | MULTI-STAGE MEMORY DEVICE PERFORMANCE NOTIFICATION | August 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 31 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16994668 | MEMORY CONTROL METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | August 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 33 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16927567 | READ THRESHOLD OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING DOMAIN TRANSFORMATION | July 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 39 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16926636 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE CONNECTORS ON STORAGE DEVICES | July 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16708971 | FLEXIBLE COMMAND POINTERS TO MICROCODE OPERATIONS | December 2019 | March 2023 | Allow | 39 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16549621 | RAW READ BASED PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTION FOR FLASH MEMORY | August 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner VO, TONG BA.
With a 100.0% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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, 50.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ Appeals to PTAB show good success rates. If you have a strong case on the merits, consider fully prosecuting the appeal to a Board decision.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner VO, TONG BA works in Art Unit 2133 and has examined 40 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 90.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 28 months.
Examiner VO, TONG BA's allowance rate of 90.0% places them in the 73% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by VO, TONG BA 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 VO, TONG BA 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 +16.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by VO, TONG BA. This interview benefit is in the 57% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 34.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 76% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 25.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 36% 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 66.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 48% percentile among all examiners. 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, 0.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 1% 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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