USPTO Examiner LI HEWY H - Art Unit 2136

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18410554COHERENT BLOCK READ FULFILLMENTJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1500YesNo
18401824STREAMING ENGINE WITH SEPARATELY SELECTABLE ELEMENT AND GROUP DUPLICATIONJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1310NoNo
18394392MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD FOR GENERATING COMMANDS BASED ON MEMORY REQUESTDecember 2023July 2025Abandon1920YesNo
18475205MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD SUPPORTING FAST BOOT USING HOST MEMORY BUFFER AND DEFAULT ENABLED INFORMATIONSeptember 2023July 2024Allow1010NoNo
18229902VIRTUAL COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE DEVICESAugust 2023October 2024Allow1410YesNo
18229360SOFTWARE RAID/MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMAugust 2023October 2024Allow1500NoNo
18229509POWER-OPTIMIZED AND SHARED BUFFERAugust 2023October 2024Allow1500NoNo
18206686NON-UNIFORM MEMORY INTERLEAVING PROCESSORJune 2023July 2024Allow1310NoNo
18325419OPTIMIZING CACHE ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN PROCESSOR-BASED DEVICESMay 2023June 2025Allow2420NoNo
18203075SCHEME FOR FINDING AND CHECKING WHETHER PAGE UNITS IN ONE BLOCK ARE EMPTY PAGES BY USING FLASH MEMORY DEVICE BASED ON SMALLER SEARCH RANGEMay 2023August 2024Allow1500YesNo
18203569Nonvolatile Physical Memory with DRAM CacheMay 2023July 2024Allow1310YesNo
18139785CONFIGURABLE IN MEMORY COMPUTING ENGINE, PLATFORM, BIT CELLS AND LAYOUTS THEREFOREApril 2023February 2024Allow900YesNo
18298164Single-Sided Distributed Storage SystemApril 2023January 2024Allow1000YesNo
18297551STORAGE DEVICE CONTROLLING TARGET OPERATION BASED ON COLLECTED PERFORMANCE INFORMATION AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFApril 2023October 2024Allow1910YesNo
18115707ADDRESS GENERATOR USING MEMORY ACCESS OPERATION TYPE FOR A COMPUTER WITH A SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA ARCHITECTUREFebruary 2023February 2025Allow2310NoNo
18115620DATA PATH FUNCTIONS FOR DATA STORAGEFebruary 2023August 2024Allow1700NoNo
18085099RECONFIGURABLE SSD STORAGE POOLDecember 2022March 2024Allow1420NoNo
18085340NON-UNIFORM MEMORY INTERLEAVE METHODDecember 2022April 2024Allow1600NoNo
18068302DATA AND POWER MANAGEMENT OF PARTITIONED BUFFER IN A STORAGE DEVICEDecember 2022January 2024Allow1310YesNo
18081021PAGE BUFFER SUPPORTING DIFFERENT BIT LINE FORCING OPERATIONS USING A DYNAMIC LATCHDecember 2022October 2024Allow2210NoNo
18065175MANAGEMENT OF IOMMU TLB ENTRIES FOR COMPUTE UNITS OF A SIMD PROCESSING DEVICEDecember 2022January 2025Allow2510NoNo
17992391STORAGE DEVICE POWER CONTROL BY EXPANDER DEVICE BASED ON A DATA SECURITY POLICYNovember 2022March 2025Allow2800NoNo
17919345On-Chip Packet Caching Apparatus, Method and Computer-Readable Medium Using Idle Address Management ModuleOctober 2022September 2024Allow2310YesNo
17902716PERFORMANCE THROTTLING MODULESeptember 2022July 2024Allow2310NoNo
17902229Rebalancing Volumes in Computer System Comprising Upper and Lower ClusterSeptember 2022July 2024Allow2210YesNo
17902026Generating Commands for a Memory Controller to Write a Target ValueSeptember 2022December 2024Allow2820NoNo
17898394MANAGING SUPERBLOCK WRITES USING DATA TRANSFER LISTSAugust 2022April 2024Allow2010NoNo
17876696HIERARCHICAL ARBITRATION STRUCTUREJuly 2022January 2023Allow500YesNo
17875135RUNTIME DE-INTERLEAVE AND RE-INTERLEAVE OF SYSTEM MEMORYJuly 2022January 2024Allow1800NoNo
17872848SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LAMBDA BUCKETSJuly 2022January 2024Allow1810NoNo
17867074DYNAMIC BUFFER CACHING OF STORAGE DEVICESJuly 2022June 2023Allow1110YesNo
17662710PROVIDING SYSTEM SERVICESMay 2022January 2025Allow3310YesNo
17662100APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CONCURRENTLY ACCESSING MULTIPLE PARTITIONS OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORYMay 2022June 2023Allow1310NoNo
17658764Single-Sided Distributed Storage SystemApril 2022December 2022Allow900NoNo
17709454DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PICKING UP TOP K VALUESMarch 2022October 2023Allow1810NoNo
17707849ON-CHIP INTERCONNECT FOR MEMORY CHANNEL CONTROLLERSMarch 2022October 2023Allow1800NoNo
17702505Nonvolatile Physical Memory with DRAM CacheMarch 2022March 2023Allow1100NoNo
17698658SOLID STATE DRIVE SUPPORTING BOTH BYTE ADDRESSABLE PROTOCOL AND BLOCK ADDRESSABLE PROTOCOLMarch 2022September 2023Allow1820YesNo
17693431METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CACHING ADDRESS MAPPING INFORMATION IN FLASH MEMORY BASED STORAGE DEVICEMarch 2022January 2024Allow2310YesNo
17682640DYNAMIC XOR BIN MAPPING IN MEMORY DEVICESFebruary 2022October 2023Allow1900NoNo
17680065MAGNETIC DISK DEVICEFebruary 2022October 2023Abandon1910NoNo
17575089MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD SUPPORTING FAST BOOT USING HOST MEMORY BUFFER AND DEFAULT ENABLED INFORMATIONJanuary 2022June 2023Allow1700YesNo
17647944IN-MEMORY ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING FOR VECTORSJanuary 2022January 2024Allow2410NoNo
17572931MEMORY CONTROLLER COMPRISING MULTIPLE BUFFER MEMORIES, AND HANDLING OF READ AFTER WRITE HAZARDSJanuary 2022October 2024Allow3330YesNo
17625702AIR FREIGHT RATE DATA CACHING METHOD AND SYSTEMJanuary 2022February 2024Allow2510YesNo
17563985Reduce Data Traffic between Cache and Memory via Data Access of Variable SizesDecember 2021August 2024Allow3130NoNo
17561817TYPED STORE BUFFERS FOR HARDENING STORE FORWARDINGDecember 2021April 2024Allow2820YesNo
17557639COHERENT BLOCK READ FULFILLMENTDecember 2021September 2023Allow2110NoNo
17556908Response-Based Interconnect ControlDecember 2021March 2023Allow1500YesNo
17541306SOLID STATE DISK, DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD AND INTERMEDIARY CONTROLLER TO SUPPORT REDUCED SSD CONTROLLER PAD COUNTDecember 2021August 2023Allow2110NoNo
17457587Immediate Partial Host Buffer FetchingDecember 2021March 2023Allow1600YesNo
17517659DUAL MODE STORAGE DEVICENovember 2021October 2023Allow2310YesNo
17512712Efficient transfer of hard data and confidence levels in reading a nonvolatile memoryOctober 2021September 2023Allow2320YesNo
17506405BUFFER MANAGEMENT OF MEMORY REFRESHOctober 2021September 2023Abandon2310NoNo
17502504FIRMWARE LOADING FOR A MEMORY CONTROLLEROctober 2021March 2023Allow1710NoNo
17500927SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR BIAS MODE MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY SYSTEMSOctober 2021September 2023Allow2320YesNo
17495443Sudden Power Off Recovery Operation Sourcing Data From Original Target Block and Buffer BlockOctober 2021October 2024Abandon3650YesNo
17482304SOFTWARE DRIVEN DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION AND ADDRESS MAPPING FOR DISAGGREGATED MEMORY POOLSeptember 2021March 2025Allow4200NoNo
17479702APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SAMPLE PAGE TABLE ENTRY METADATA BETWEEN PAGE WALKSSeptember 2021June 2025Abandon4510NoNo
17473468METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE A CACHE (DEVPIC) TO STORE PROCESS SPECIFIC INFORMATION INSIDE DEVICES THAT SUPPORT ADDRESS TRANSLATION SERVICE (ATS)September 2021October 2024Allow3710NoNo
17463026SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WRITE REQUESTS OF A WRITE QUEUEAugust 2021April 2024Abandon3210NoNo
17462105STREAMING ENGINE WITH SEPARATELY SELECTABLE ELEMENT AND GROUP DUPLICATIONAugust 2021October 2022Allow1300NoNo
17408584MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD FOR GENERATING COMMANDS BASED ON A MEMORY REQUESTAugust 2021September 2023Allow2520YesNo
17386180TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTIVELY ORGANIZING WRITE PAGES IN CACHE USING HASH TABLESJuly 2021December 2022Allow1700YesNo
17382889STORAGE BACKED MEMORY PACKAGE SAVE TRIGGERJuly 2021October 2022Allow1500YesNo
17378202CONDITIONALLY PRECHARGING WORDLINES BASED ON TEMPERATURE AND DURATION DEPENDENT VOLTAGE DROPS IN A STORAGE DEVICEJuly 2021March 2023Allow2010YesNo
17364784Redirecting Access Requests Between Access Engines of Respective Disk Management DevicesJune 2021March 2023Allow2020YesNo
17351290Prioritizing Volume Accesses in Multi-Volume Storage Device Based on Execution Path of a ServiceJune 2021June 2022Allow1200NoNo
17351114VIRTUAL COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE DEVICESJune 2021April 2023Allow2210NoNo
17332259MEMORY SYSTEM LIMITING FETCHING FROM HOST SUBMISSION QUEUE BASED ON FREE SPACE OF CORRESPONDING COMPLETION QUEUE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFMay 2021March 2023Allow2110NoNo
17322444DEPLOYING A SMART CONTRACTMay 2021December 2021Allow710NoNo
17243500SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY WRITE OPERATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DATA BUS INVERSION ON PRECHARGE-HIGH BUSApril 2021September 2023Abandon2820YesNo
17242203ULTRA HIGH-SPEED LOW-LATENCY NETWORK STORAGEApril 2021June 2023Allow2630NoNo
17238946System and Method for Extending NVRAM-Based Write-Cache onto SSDsApril 2021September 2022Allow1710NoNo
17232880RECONFIGURABLE SSD STORAGE POOLApril 2021September 2022Allow1700NoNo
17231073Method and Apparatus for Accelerating Deduplication ProcessingApril 2021June 2022Allow1400NoNo
17227721HIERARCHICAL ARBITRATION STRUCTUREApril 2021June 2022Allow1400NoNo
17221399EFFICIENT RESET AND EVALUATION OPERATION OF MULTIPLYING BIT-CELLS FOR IN-MEMORY COMPUTINGApril 2021March 2023Allow2310NoNo
17216281Dynamic Caching and Eviction Policy in Different Points-of-Presence of a Content Delivery NetworkMarch 2021June 2022Allow1500YesNo
17202591ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH STORAGE DEVICE DATA CONVERSIONMarch 2021November 2023Allow3230YesNo
17196909DATA STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING CACHING GROUPS DEFINED BY WRITE COUNTS OF DATA BLOCKS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFMarch 2021October 2022Allow1910NoNo
17169784CONTROLLING STATUS INDICATORS FOR DRIVE BAYS OF A DRIVE BAY ENCLOSURE OF A STORAGE SYSTEMFebruary 2021January 2024Allow3510YesNo
17143590BUFFER MANAGEMENT DURING POWER STATE TRANSITIONS USING SELF-REFRESH AND DUMP MODESJanuary 2021September 2022Allow2010NoNo
17129248SPECULATIVE BANK ACTIVATE DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (DRAM) SCHEDULERDecember 2020January 2022Allow1300YesNo
17124056DATA BUS AND BUFFER MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING IN-MEMORY DATA OPERATIONSDecember 2020October 2022Allow2110YesNo
17252521CONFIGURABLE IN MEMORY COMPUTING ENGINE, PLATFORM, BIT CELLS AND LAYOUTS THEREFOREDecember 2020January 2023Allow2520YesNo
16952639SELECTIVE DEDUPLICATION IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMNovember 2020July 2022Allow2020YesNo
16950942SIDE CACHE ARRAY FOR GREATER FETCH BANDWIDTHNovember 2020March 2022Allow1600YesNo
17092860STORAGE DEVICE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING INTERNAL OPERATION TO PROVIDE SHORT READ RESPONSE TIME FOR READ REQUEST FROM HOSTNovember 2020February 2022Allow1500NoNo
17090895CACHE MANAGEMENT METHOD USING OBJECT-ORIENTED MANNER AND ASSOCIATED MICROCONTROLLERNovember 2020February 2023Allow2830NoNo
17088854METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED MEMORY INPUT AND OUTPUT SPEEDNovember 2020April 2022Allow1810YesNo
17048045Accelerator Comprising Input and Output Controllers for Feeding Back Intermediate Data Between Processing Elements via Cache ModuleOctober 2020August 2022Allow2210NoNo
17037286Single-Sided Distributed Storage SystemSeptember 2020December 2021Allow1500YesNo
17025898DYNAMIC BUFFER CACHING OF STORAGE DEVICESSeptember 2020March 2022Allow1810YesNo
17020967Shingled Magnetic Disk Management Method for Data Isolation by Space Files, Apparatus, and Electronic DeviceSeptember 2020March 2023Allow3010YesNo
17017001Concurrent Cache Lookups Using Partial IdentifiersSeptember 2020November 2021Allow1500NoNo
17009940MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING PARALLEL OPERATION ELEMENTS AND CONTROL METHOD TO REDUCE READ LATENCY AND OMIT STATUS CHECKSeptember 2020March 2022Allow1810YesNo
16995970SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEFINING REPLICATION OF DATAAugust 2020October 2021Allow1300YesNo
16995411SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING HYBRID HARDWARE-MANAGED AND SOFTWARE-MANAGED CACHE COHERENCY FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTINGAugust 2020March 2022Allow1920YesNo
16987123FAULT TOLERANT ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION IN DEEP LEARNING ACCELERATOR HAVING INTEGRATED RANDOM ACCESS MEMORYAugust 2020September 2024Allow5020YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner LI, HEWY H.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
2
Allowed After Appeal Filing
0
(0.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
2
(100.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
2.5%
Lower 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, 0.0% 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.

Strategic Recommendations

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Examiner LI, HEWY H - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner LI, HEWY H works in Art Unit 2136 and has examined 300 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 85.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner LI, HEWY H's allowance rate of 85.0% places them in the 61% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by LI, HEWY H receive 1.55 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 29% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by LI, HEWY H is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 75% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +11.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by LI, HEWY H. This interview benefit is in the 46% 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, 31.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 64% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 40.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 62% 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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 89% 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 frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 17.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 9% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.3% of allowed cases (in the 56% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 7.1% of allowed cases (in the 85% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

  • Appeal filing as negotiation tool: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

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.

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