Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724207 | DISK PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | June 2024 | November 2025 | Abandon | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18745534 | APPARATUS WITH MEMORY BLOCK MANAGEMENT AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME | June 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18732515 | Optimizing Data Reduction Operations | June 2024 | December 2025 | Abandon | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18444757 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL DATA MEMORY CARD ENCRYPTION | February 2024 | September 2025 | Abandon | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18422073 | MEMORY CONTROLLER SUPPORTING NONVOLATILE PHYSICAL MEMORY | January 2024 | January 2026 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18412041 | DETERMINING WHETHER TO COMPRESS DATA AT A SOURCE DEVICE TO TRANSMIT TO A TARGET DEVICE | January 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18467403 | STORAGE DEVICE MIGRATING USER DATA STORED IN MEMORY DIE IN AN UNUSABLE STATE | September 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18236398 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ASSOCIATED MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | August 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18354663 | STORAGE DEVICE FOR COMPRESSING AND STORING JOURNAL, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | July 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18354525 | Self-Characterizing, Evaluating, and Adaptive High Performance Memory Controller | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18261365 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY ACCESS METHOD | July 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18217003 | STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM FOR DIRECT STORAGE | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18178422 | MEMORY SYSTEM | March 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A COMMITTED THROUGHPUT LEVEL IN A DATA STORE | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 18104019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDRESS SCRAMBLING | January 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18102377 | CONCURRENT MEMORY RECYCLING FOR COLLECTION OF SERVERS | January 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18094845 | PRIVILEGE LEVEL ASSIGNMENTS TO GROUPS | January 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 8 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18085706 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF LARGER PAGES DURING RUNTIME | December 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18076686 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) IN SOLID-STATE DRIVES (SSDS) AND AN SSD THEREOF | December 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18056355 | METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MEMORY BLOCKS IN MEMORY DEVICES | November 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 34 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17988034 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE, DATA WRITING METHOD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | November 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17970122 | DYNAMIC TUNING OF LARGER PAGES DURING RUNTIME | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17954023 | LIMITING HOT-COLD SWAP WEAR LEVELING | September 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952029 | LOADING MULTI-SEGMENTED SOFTWARE IMAGE FILES INTO MEMORY USING A NESTED FILE STRUCTURE | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17951712 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR INDIVIDUALLY APPLYING VOLTAGES TO WORD LINES ADJACENT TO SELECTED WORD LINE, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17951528 | BUFFER CIRCUITRY FOR STORE TO LOAD FORWARDING | September 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17951993 | Automated Fast Path Processing | September 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17822807 | TRANSFER DEVICE, TRANSFER METHOD, AND TRANSFER PROGRAM | August 2022 | September 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17895737 | REPLAY PROTECTED MEMORY BLOCK DATA FRAME | August 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17817219 | METHODS FOR ACCELERATING STORAGE OPERATIONS USING COMPUTATIONAL NETWORK AND STORAGE COMPONENTS AND DEVICES THEREOF | August 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17871972 | HIGH-COMPRESSION, HIGH-VOLUME DEDUPLICATION CACHE | July 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17814133 | Object Tiering In A Distributed Storage System | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17865245 | APPARATUS WITH MEMORY BLOCK MANAGEMENT AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME | July 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17850337 | ROLLBACK OF COMMENT MIGRATION TO CLOUD STORAGE | June 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17848710 | Memory Setting Method and Apparatus | June 2022 | February 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17845310 | EFFICIENT COMMAND FETCHING IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | June 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17839615 | Data Storage Device and Method for Prediction-Based Improved Power-Loss Handling | June 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17839388 | MEMORY CONTROLLER ADJUSTING POWER, MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD FOR MEMORY SYSTEM | June 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17781495 | A CACHE UPDATING SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF | June 2022 | May 2024 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17742720 | SNAPSHOTTING A CONTAINERIZED APPLICATION | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17773014 | Structure and method for digital data memory card encryption | April 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17723117 | DISK STORAGE-BASED DATA READING METHODS AND APPARATUSES, AND DEVICES | April 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17721933 | METHOD OF DATA MANAGEMENT FOR A BITWISE PROGRAMMABLE NON-VOLATILE MEMORY, AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE | April 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17714575 | HARDWARE LATENCY MONITORING FOR MEMORY DEVICE INPUT/OUTPUT REQUESTS | April 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17694662 | LOW LATENCY MULTIPLE STORAGE DEVICE SYSTEM | March 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 39 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17693877 | Data Storage Device and Method for Host-Initiated Transactional Handling for Large Data Set Atomicity Across Multiple Memory Commands | March 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17638410 | DATA PARTITION HANDOFF BETWEEN STORAGE CLUSTERS | February 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17679836 | SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | February 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17538822 | READING AND WRITING OF DISTRIBUTED BLOCK STORAGE SYSTEM | November 2021 | October 2023 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17538385 | Aligning Variable Sized Compressed Data To Fixed Sized Storage Blocks | November 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17512624 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING DATA IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM USING GPUS | October 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17509308 | System and Method for Allocating Storage System Resources During Write Throttling | October 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17502898 | HIGH-COMPRESSION, HIGH-VOLUME DEDUPLICATION CACHE | October 2021 | April 2022 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17473738 | ENSURING SUFFICIENT SPACE IS AVAILABLE ON TARGET VOLUMES BEFORE PERFORMING A POINT-IN-TIME COPY JOB | September 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17469043 | STORAGE SYSTEM WITH STORAGE CLUSTER FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM | September 2021 | November 2023 | Abandon | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17461043 | Workload-Adaptive Overprovisioning in Solid State Storage Drive Arrays | August 2021 | June 2023 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17403673 | DATA MOVEMENT INTIMATION USING INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) QUEUE MANAGEMENT | August 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 36 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17403366 | DATA MIGRATION SCHEDULE PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING | August 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17396716 | MICROPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE HAVING ALTERNATIVE MEMORY ACCESS PATHS | August 2021 | April 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17394697 | MOVING VIRTUAL VOLUMES AMONG STORAGE NODES OF A STORAGE CLUSTER BASED ON DETERMINED LIKELIHOOD OF DESIGNATED VIRTUAL MACHINE BOOT CONDITIONS | August 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 27 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17392031 | EFFICIENT DIRTY PAGE EXPIRATION | August 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17386873 | PER-SERVICE STORAGE OF ATTRIBUTES | July 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 34 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17381301 | DATA MIGRATION BETWEEN STORAGE SYSTEMS | July 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17380523 | SELECTIVE PROCESSING OF FILE SYSTEM OBJECTS FOR IMAGE LEVEL BACKUPS | July 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17376716 | MEMORY ACCESS TECHNIQUES IN MEMORY DEVICES WITH MULTIPLE PARTITIONS | July 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17348669 | CLOUD DATA MIGRATION | June 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17348447 | READ CONTROLLER AND INPUT/OUTPUT CONTROLLER | June 2021 | June 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17342767 | BACKEND AWARE VIRTUALIZED STORAGE | June 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17340474 | PRE-FETCHING DATA BASED ON MEMORY USAGE PATTERNS | June 2021 | August 2023 | Abandon | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17339535 | Control Device Switching Method, Control Device, and Storage System | June 2021 | March 2025 | Abandon | 46 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17334523 | Minimizing Cost of Disk Fulfillment | May 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17330774 | DATA TRANSFER ACROSS STORAGE TIERS | May 2021 | September 2024 | Abandon | 40 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17238877 | LOAD BALANCING COMBINING BLOCK AND FILE STORAGE | April 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 33 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17239194 | Node Capacity Expansion Method in Storage System and Storage System | April 2021 | December 2024 | Abandon | 44 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
| 17229153 | LOGICAL STORAGE DEVICE ACCESS USING DEVICE-SPECIFIC KEYS IN AN ENCRYPTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENT | April 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 29 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17221772 | Managing Application Storage Resource Allocations Based on Application Specific Storage Policies | April 2021 | March 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17199302 | Throttle Response Signals from a Memory System | March 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17182942 | PERFORMING WEAR LEVELING BETWEEN STORAGE SYSTEMS OF A STORAGE CLUSTER | February 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17152812 | FLASH CONTROLLERS, METHODS, AND CORRESPONDING STORAGE DEVICES CAPABLE OF RAPIDLY/FAST GENERATING OR UPDATING CONTENTS OF VALID PAGE COUNT TABLE | January 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17150253 | LOG-STRUCTURED STORAGE SYSTEMS | January 2021 | March 2021 | Allow | 2 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17247805 | GARBAGE COLLECTION CANDIDATE SELECTION USING BLOCK OVERWRITE RATE | December 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17133009 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A COMMITTED THROUGHPUT LEVEL IN A DATA STORE | December 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17114813 | MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF REMOTE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE | December 2020 | January 2024 | Abandon | 37 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17109180 | ENHANCED APPLICATION PERFORMANCE USING STORAGE SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION | December 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17102084 | MANAGING AND RANKING MEMORY RESOURCES | November 2020 | February 2025 | Abandon | 50 | 4 | 1 | Yes | Yes |
| 17078504 | POOLING DISTRIBUTED STORAGE NODES THAT HAVE SPECIALIZED HARDWARE | October 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17077149 | PARTITIONING A CACHE FOR FULFILLING STORAGE COMMANDS | October 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17066305 | HARDWARE-BASED POWER MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT REGISTER FILE WRITE PROTECTION | October 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17065082 | MEMORY CONTROLLER SUPPORTING NONVOLATILE PHYSICAL MEMORY | October 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 37 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17061596 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN STORAGE CONTROLLING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE CONTROLLER | October 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 33 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17012652 | METHODS FOR ACCELERATING STORAGE OPERATIONS USING COMPUTATIONAL NETWORK AND STORAGE COMPONENTS AND DEVICES THEREOF | September 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17010945 | Method and Apparatus for Increasing the Accuracy of Predicting Future IO Operations on a Storage System | September 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17010960 | Snapshot Access Using Nocopy Undefined Thin Devices | September 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17010072 | PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MEMORY | September 2020 | November 2024 | Allow | 50 | 10 | 0 | No | No |
| 17008954 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM | September 2020 | September 2022 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16998859 | APPLICATION AWARE PROVISIONING FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS | August 2020 | April 2023 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16986643 | BOOSTING LOCAL MEMORY PERFORMANCE IN PROCESSOR GRAPHICS | August 2020 | March 2023 | Abandon | 31 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16987124 | LOCALIZED MEMORY TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR HIGH-SPEED MEMORY DEVICES | August 2020 | June 2023 | Abandon | 34 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16983050 | HOST BUS ADAPTOR (HBA) VIRTUALIZATION AWARE MULTI-PATHING FAILOVER POLICY | August 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16947419 | MODIFYING VIRTUAL PERSISTENT VOLUMES BASED ON ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE METRICS | July 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 42 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner TSAI, SHENG JEN.
With a 33.3% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success 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, 23.2% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.
✓ 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 shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner TSAI, SHENG JEN works in Art Unit 2136 and has examined 434 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 70.0%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.
Examiner TSAI, SHENG JEN's allowance rate of 70.0% places them in the 32% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by TSAI, SHENG JEN receive 3.40 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 93% 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.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by TSAI, SHENG JEN is 31 months. This places the examiner in the 54% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +7.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by TSAI, SHENG JEN. This interview benefit is in the 36% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 19.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 20% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 16.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 18% 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, 23.8% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 28% 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 56.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 29% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 43.6% 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, 65.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 70% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 53% 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 0.7% of allowed cases (in the 57% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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