USPTO Examiner MA WEI - Art Unit 2135

Examiner Information

Name: MA, WEI
Art Unit: 2135
Total Cases: 63
Last Active: December 2024

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18980736GARBAGE COLLECTION FOR FLASH TRANSLATION LAYER TABLESDecember 2024March 2026Allow1500YesNo
18977123MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING USE HISTORYDecember 2024February 2026Allow1400NoNo
18893602CLOUD-BASED AIR-GAPPED DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSeptember 2024December 2025Allow1410NoNo
18886567MULTI-BANK MEMORY THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE READS AND MULTIPLE WRITES PER CYCLESeptember 2024February 2026Allow1710NoNo
18821905MEMORY SYSTEMAugust 2024January 2026Allow1710NoNo
18766224UNIVERSAL SENSOR ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLESJuly 2024January 2026Allow1910YesNo
18761657SMART STORAGE DEVICESJuly 2024January 2026Allow1810YesNo
18737196DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2024February 2026Allow2020NoNo
18666630DRAM LAYOUT FOR LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL (L2P) ADDRESS INDIRECTION TABLE (AIT)May 2024November 2025Allow1810YesNo
18648835LOW POWER LATE-SELECTED CACHES USING A SET-PREDICTION HISTORYApril 2024February 2026Allow2120NoNo
18647546GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED BACKUP AND RECOVERY SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND LOAD BALANCINGApril 2024March 2026Allow2220YesNo
18625104SCOPE TREE CONSISTENCY PROTOCOL FOR CACHE COHERENCEApril 2024October 2025Allow1910NoNo
18599712SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A DEDICATED BACKUP IN A CONTAINERIZED ENVIRONMENTMarch 2024October 2025Allow2010NoNo
18593612BACKUP MANAGEMENT OF NON-RELATIONAL DATABASESMarch 2024September 2025Allow1810NoNo
18588532FLEXIBLE CACHE STRUCTURE FOR CACHING COMPRESSED AND UNCOMPRESSED DATAFebruary 2024September 2025Allow1810NoNo
18428277LOCAL STALING PARAMETER FOR CACHE MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN A PROCESSORJanuary 2024February 2026Allow2430YesNo
18422951CACHE MEMORY SYSTEM EMPLOYING A MULTIPLE-LEVEL HIERARCHY CACHE COHERENCY ARCHITECTUREJanuary 2024January 2026Allow2330NoNo
18411614PREFETCHING USING GLOBAL OFFSET DIRECTION TRACKING CIRCUITRYJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1610NoNo
18390342OPTIMIZING SPACE AND TIME OF OPERATIONS FOR REGISTER CONFIGURATIONSDecember 2023February 2025Allow1410YesNo
18501692SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CACHE WARMING IN A DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE SYSTEMNovember 2023July 2025Allow2110YesNo
18495478LOW WATERMARK BUFFER CACHEOctober 2023February 2026Allow2730YesNo
18488674ACCELERATING TABLE LOOKUPS USING A DECOUPLED LOOKUP TABLE ACCELERATOR IN A SYSTEM ON A CHIPOctober 2023November 2025Allow2520YesNo
18377597METHOD FOR CACHING AND MIGRATING DE-COMPRESSED PAGEOctober 2023January 2026Allow2740NoNo
18477450LOW-LATENCY CODE FETCHING FROM MEMORYSeptember 2023August 2025Allow2220YesNo
18475492Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) Efficiency Calculation and Utilization of Last Level Cache (LLC)September 2023January 2026Allow2740YesNo
18470111DESIGN VERIFICATION PROCESS FOR BIT SPREADING ERROR RESISTANT MEMORY SYSTEMSeptember 2023May 2025Allow2010NoNo
18460041ERASE VERIFICATION FOR A NONVOLATILE MEMORYSeptember 2023March 2026Abandon3030YesNo
18446523DATA ACCESS CONTROL FOR DATAFLOW COMPUTING SYSTEMSAugust 2023February 2025Allow1810YesNo
18263829COMPUTER RECOVERY SYSTEMAugust 2023January 2026Abandon3020NoNo
18220240FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER THAT CAN QUICKLY ENTER POWER SAVING MODE AFTER ENTERING IDLE STATE, ASSOCIATED FLASH MEMORY DEVICE, AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL METHODJuly 2023March 2025Allow2020NoNo
18218876Statistically Driven Run Level Firmware MigrationJuly 2023January 2026Abandon3140YesNo
18339249Secure stacking of memory diesJune 2023December 2025Allow3020NoNo
18335351CACHING STRATEGY DETERMINATION AND INJECTIONJune 2023January 2026Allow3250YesNo
18321919Hybrid Memory in a Dynamically Power Gated Hardware AcceleratorMay 2023June 2024Allow1310YesNo
18195587MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING USE HISTORYMay 2023September 2024Allow1610YesNo
18314495OPERATIONS IN A PROCESSOR CACHE BASED ON OCCUPANCY STATEMay 2023June 2025Abandon2520NoNo
18138415DYNAMIC RESERVE CAPACITY IN STORAGE SYSTEMSApril 2023March 2025Allow2330YesNo
18301781STORAGE DEVICE CONTROLLING WRITE BUFFER WHILE PROCESSING POWER OFF REQUEST AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE STORAGE DEVICEApril 2023April 2025Allow2430YesNo
18184547STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF CONTROLLERMarch 2023November 2024Abandon2010NoNo
18183592STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE STORAGE SYSTEMMarch 2023April 2025Allow2530YesNo
18104414MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MEMORY SYSTEMFebruary 2023January 2026Allow3660YesNo
18160404System and Method for Managing Data Portion Ownership in a Storage ClusterJanuary 2023August 2024Allow1810NoNo
18099750TRANSPARENT BLOCK DEVICE COMPRESSION USING HASH-TABLEJanuary 2023May 2025Allow2840YesNo
17994169OPERATING METHOD FOR STORAGE CONTROLLER AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING SAMENovember 2022October 2025Allow3550YesNo
17926966IMAGE DATA STORAGE METHOD, IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND RELATED APPARATUSNovember 2022September 2025Allow3410NoNo
17661427Technique for Overriding Memory AttributesApril 2022January 2025Abandon3340YesNo
17732098IN-MEMORY HASH ENTRIES AND HASHES USED TO IMPROVE KEY SEARCH OPERATIONS FOR KEYS OF A KEY VALUE STOREApril 2022November 2024Allow3140YesNo
17692031Circuits And Methods For Coherent Writing To Host SystemsMarch 2022August 2025Allow4110NoNo
17455770METHOD FOR MEMORY ALLOCATION DURING EXECUTION OF A NEURAL NETWORKNovember 2021June 2025Allow4310NoNo
17523384DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE MULTI-MODE MEMORY ALLOCATION IN AN ACCELERATOR MULTI-CORE SYSTEM ON CHIPNovember 2021December 2023Abandon2520YesNo
17521707Caching Data Based On Greenhouse Gas DataNovember 2021January 2024Allow2630YesNo
17449561MULTIPATH MEMORY WITH STATIC OR DYNAMIC MAPPING TO COHERENT OR MMIO SPACESeptember 2021January 2024Allow2730YesNo
17489712STORING AN INDICATION OF A SPECIFIC DATA PATTERN IN SPARE DIRECTORY ENTRIESSeptember 2021January 2026Abandon5280YesNo
17471406Method and Apparatus for Changing Address-to-Row Mappings in a Skewed-Associative CacheSeptember 2021February 2023Allow1710NoNo
17471153Organizational Awareness for Automating Data Protection Policies Using Historical WeightingSeptember 2021October 2024Abandon3740NoNo
17401021GROUP REPLICATION FOR HIGHLY GLOBAL WORKLOADSAugust 2021July 2024Allow3530YesNo
17394183SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICEAugust 2021April 2025Abandon4460YesNo
17385765DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATABLE PHYSICALLY ADDRESSED METADATA STORAGEJuly 2021February 2025Allow4360YesNo
17380926RESTORE ASSISTANT: USING AUGMENTED BACKUP METADATA FOR STEP-BY-STEP RESTORE GUIDEJuly 2021August 2025Abandon4960NoNo
17358936CONTROLLER AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOFJune 2021October 2024Abandon3950YesNo
17353737MEMORY MAPPING METHOD AND APPARATUSJune 2021July 2025Allow4810YesNo
17351461ORGANIZATIONAL AWARENESS FOR AUTOMATING DATA PROTECTION POLICIES WITH SOCIAL GRAPH INTEGRATIONJune 2021December 2024Abandon4240NoNo
17343531RESTRICTED DATA TRANSFERJune 2021October 2024Allow4050NoNo
17339685METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLONING DATABASE AND ASSOCIATED APPLICATIONJune 2021December 2023Abandon3020NoNo
17303608CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION IN CLOUD USING STREAMSJune 2021February 2025Abandon4560NoNo
17335224RESET DYNAMIC ADDRESS TRANSLATION PROTECTION INSTRUCTIONJune 2021May 2024Allow3560YesNo
17324800Multi-block Cache Fetch TechniquesMay 2021November 2024Allow4260YesNo
17323265COMPUTER BACKUP GENERATOR USING BACKUP TRIGGERSMay 2021June 2025Abandon4940YesYes
17240935MEMORY ARRAY FOR STORING ODD AND EVEN DATA BITS OF DATA WORDS IN ALTERNATE SUB-BANKS TO REDUCE MULTI-BIT ERROR RATE AND RELATED METHODSApril 2021April 2023Allow2320YesNo
17235977DETECTING CORRUPTION IN FOREVER INCREMENTAL BACKUPS WITH PRIMARY STORAGE SYSTEMSApril 2021November 2023Abandon3140YesNo
17236032GLOBALLY UNIQUE WAY TO IDENTIFY A RESOURCEApril 2021July 2024Abandon3940NoNo
17236196APPLICATION CONSISTENT NETWORK BACKUP USING THREE PHASE FULL QUORUMApril 2021November 2023Allow3120NoNo
17206147METHOD OF PERFORMING WEAR-LEVELING OPERATION IN FLASH MEMORY AND RELATED CONTROLLER AND STORAGE SYSTEMMarch 2021September 2024Allow4260YesNo
17200205CLOUD-NATIVE CROSS-ENVIRONMENT RESTORATIONMarch 2021June 2024Allow3950YesNo
17193919SYNCHRONIZING EXPIRATIONS FOR INCREMENTAL BACKUP DATA STORED ON A CLOUD-BASED OBJECT STORAGEMarch 2021July 2023Allow2830NoNo
17193342ORGANIZATIONAL AWARENESS FOR AUTOMATING DATA PROTECTION POLICIESMarch 2021July 2024Abandon4040NoNo
17184673SENSOR BASED MEMORY ARRAY DATA SCRUBBINGFebruary 2021April 2025Allow5060YesNo
17177094CONCURRENT TRANSMISSION OF MULTIPLE EXTENTS DURING BACKUP OF EXTENT-ELIGIBLE FILESFebruary 2021May 2023Abandon2720NoNo
17163683REGISTER OPERATION IN MEMORY DEVICESFebruary 2021December 2023Allow3440NoNo
17133830ACCELERATED RAID REBUILD OFFLOADDecember 2020November 2024Abandon4620NoNo
17120555CLOUD-BASED AIR-GAPPED DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMDecember 2020August 2024Allow4440NoYes
17247299COMPILATION OF EXPRESSIONS TO EMPLOY SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY CONCURRENCY CONTROL OF AN IN-MEMORY DATABASEDecember 2020September 2024Abandon4540YesNo
17097501DYNAMIC LOADING NEURAL NETWORK INFERENCE AT DRAM/ON-BUS SRAM/SERIAL FLASH FOR POWER OPTIMIZATIONNovember 2020August 2024Allow4610NoNo
17073954SYNCHRONIZED GENERATION OF BACKUP COPY FOR FEDERATED APPLICATION IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMOctober 2020October 2023Allow3640YesNo
17032056SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING COHERENT MEMORY DOMAINSSeptember 2020August 2025Abandon5940YesNo
17027374EFFICIENT IDENTIFICATION OF SNAPSHOT OBJECTS USING FULL AND DIFFERENTIAL SNAPSHOT MANIFESTSSeptember 2020November 2023Allow3830YesNo
16930266MANAGING ENTERPRISE DATA RETENTIONJuly 2020June 2025Abandon5980YesNo
16919930Hybrid Memory in a Dynamically Power Gated Hardware AcceleratorJuly 2020February 2023Allow3210YesNo
16906233PRE-COMPUTATION OF MEMORY CORE CONTROL SIGNALSJune 2020January 2023Abandon3100YesNo
16857027Post-Processing in a Cloud-Based Data Protection ServiceApril 2020September 2023Allow4140YesNo
16857042Change-Based Restore from a Cloud-Based Data Protection ServiceApril 2020January 2025Allow5760YesNo
16857026Deduplication in a Cloud-Based Data Protection ServiceApril 2020February 2024Abandon4540YesNo
16850276Method for Restoring a Blockchain Network Via Synchronizations While Maintaining Reliability on Backup Data and Minimizing Resource Usage by Converting the Identities of Nodes Adaptively, and the Nodes Using the SameApril 2020June 2023Abandon3820YesNo
16836306METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED DEDUPLICATION PERFORMANCE USING PREFETCHED BACKUP INFORMATIONMarch 2020August 2024Allow5350YesNo
16829463BACKUP HOUSEKEEPING OPERATIONS BETWEEN DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND EXTERNAL STORAGEMarch 2020March 2024Allow4860YesNo
16813116COOPERATIVE PARALLEL MEMORY ALLOCATIONMarch 2020November 2025Allow6060YesYes
16810243PRE-COMPUTATION OF MEMORY CORE CONTROL SIGNALSMarch 2020July 2022Allow2800YesNo
16807191DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF BACKUP POLICYMarch 2020August 2022Allow2910NoNo
16799581METHOD FOR MANAGING BACKUP DATA, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTFebruary 2020January 2024Allow4750YesNo
16785637NON-FAVORED VOLUME CACHE STARVATION PREVENTIONFebruary 2020January 2023Allow3530NoNo

Appeals Overview

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

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
1
Examiner Affirmed
1
(100.0%)
Examiner Reversed
0
(0.0%)
Reversal Percentile
4.0%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 0.0% 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.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
3
Allowed After Appeal Filing
1
(33.3%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
2
(66.7%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
51.6%
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, 33.3% 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.

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 MA, WEI - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner MA, WEI works in Art Unit 2135 and has examined 63 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 60.3%, this examiner allows applications at a lower rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 42 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner MA, WEI's allowance rate of 60.3% places them in the 20% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is less likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by MA, WEI receive 3.86 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 97% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues more office actions than most examiners, which may indicate thorough examination or difficulty in reaching agreement with applicants.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by MA, WEI is 42 months. This places the examiner in the 18% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +11.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MA, WEI. This interview benefit is in the 47% 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, 15.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 12% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show lower effectiveness with this examiner compared to others. Consider whether a continuation application might be more strategic, especially if you need to add new matter or significantly broaden claims.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 14.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 14% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 66.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 48% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 50.0% 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.

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 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.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

  • Prepare for rigorous examination: With a below-average allowance rate, ensure your application has strong written description and enablement support. Consider filing a continuation if you need to add new matter.
  • Expect multiple rounds of prosecution: This examiner issues more office actions than average. Address potential issues proactively in your initial response and consider requesting an interview early in prosecution.
  • Plan for RCE after final rejection: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments. Budget for an RCE in your prosecution strategy if you receive a final rejection.
  • Plan for extended prosecution: Applications take longer than average with this examiner. Factor this into your continuation strategy and client communications.

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.

Limitation of Liability: Under no circumstances will IronCrow AI be liable for any outcome, decision, or action resulting from your reliance on the statistics, analysis, or recommendations presented in this report. Past prosecution patterns do not guarantee future results.

Use at Your Own Risk: While we strive to provide accurate and useful prosecution statistics, you should independently verify any information that is material to your prosecution strategy and use your professional judgment in all patent prosecution matters.