Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18623061 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL METHOD | April 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18621747 | PRIORITIZED POWER BUDGET ARBITRATION FOR MULTIPLE CONCURRENT MEMORY ACCESS OPERATIONS | March 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18414210 | RESERVATION PERSISTENCE IN DISTRIBUTED BLOCK STORAGE SYSTEMS | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18574362 | CONTROL DEVICE, SYSTEM PROGRAM, AND METHOD | December 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18535650 | COMMAND TABLE GENERATOR FOR A MEMORY DEVICE | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18533727 | IMPROVED MEMORY PERFORMANCE USING MEMORY ACCESS COMMAND QUEUES IN MEMORY DEVICES | December 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18520325 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY ACCESS EFFICIENCY FOR MEMORY, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18520067 | MEMORY SYSTEMS AND OPERATION METHODS THEREOF | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18382026 | Object Retention Management in an Object-based Storage System | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18478735 | EFFICIENT CACHE DATA STORAGE FOR ITERATIVE WORKLOADS | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18473423 | DATASET IMAGE CREATION | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18368434 | Optimized I/O Performance Regulation for Non-Volatile Storage | September 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18235068 | NEAR-MEMORY COMPUTE MODULE | August 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18449903 | MEMORY MODULE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | August 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18232528 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING READ COMMAND, CONTROLLER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18230117 | RANDOM READS USING MULTI-PORT MEMORY AND ON-CHIP MEMORY BLOCKS | August 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18228136 | SOFTWARE RAID/MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18360252 | READ SCHEMES WITH ADJUSTMENT FOR NEIGHBORING WORD LINE SANITIZATION | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18349962 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18218576 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING ACCESS MANAGEMENT IN A MEMORY DEVICE, ASSOCIATED MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROLLER THEREOF, AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | July 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18215115 | UNLOADED CACHE BYPASS | June 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18213613 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING FAST BLOCK DEVICES | June 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18330227 | DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE TECHNIQUES FOR EDGE DEVICES | June 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18327474 | PRECISE LONGITUDINAL MONITORING OF MEMORY OPERATIONS | June 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18136446 | Security of Embedded Devices Through a Device Lifecycle with a Device Identifier | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18123436 | Virtual Block Pools For Protecting Device Health | March 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18186476 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | March 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18044499 | DRAINING OPERATION FOR DRAINING DIRTY CACHE LINES TO PERSISTENT MEMORY | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18118406 | ACCLIMATING DATA STORAGE MEDIA AND COMPONENTS IN A DATA STORAGE LIBRARY | March 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18176121 | POWER REDUCTION IN A CLOCK BUFFER OF A MEMORY MODULE BASED UPON MEMORY MODULE SPEED | February 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18176096 | POWER REDUCTION IN A CLOCK BUFFER OF A MEMORY MODULE BASED UPON MEMORY MODULE TOPOLOGY | February 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18176268 | CONTROLLING MEMORY MODULE CLOCK BUFFER POWER IN A SYSTEM WITH A SINGLE MEMORY CLOCK PER MEMORY MODULE | February 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18176284 | CONTROLLING MEMORY MODULE CLOCK BUFFER POWER IN A SYSTEM WITH DUAL MEMORY CLOCKS PER MEMORY MODULE | February 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18173880 | MEMORY CONTROLLER | February 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18113307 | METHOD FOR MANAGING MEMORY WRITE REQUEST IN CACHE DEVICE | February 2023 | April 2025 | Abandon | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18106343 | Protection of Objects in an Object-based Storage System | February 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18078098 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING ACCESS MANAGEMENT IN A MEMORY DEVICE, ASSOCIATED MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROLLER THEREOF, AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18000761 | AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING MEMORY ACCESS REQUESTS | December 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18073079 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND TEST SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | December 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17925687 | RANDOM WRITE METHOD AND APPARATUS | November 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17985674 | PREFETCH KERNELS ON DATA-PARALLEL PROCESSORS | November 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17924868 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY SCHEDULING METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17981390 | Proactive Traffic Shaping with Service Levels | November 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17980098 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND STORAGE DEVICE | November 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17978155 | LOAD BALANCING IN A STORAGE SYSTEM | October 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17976721 | DATATYPE ENGINE TO SUPPORT HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING | October 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17976728 | AGGREGATING SMALL REMOTE MEMORY ACCESS REQUESTS | October 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17974881 | MEMORY COHERENCE PROTOCOL FOR COMMUNICATING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A SHARED STATE BETWEEN PROCESSOR CORES | October 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17972603 | Device for packet processing acceleration | October 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17970628 | STORAGE CONTROLLER PERFORMING ACTIVE ZONE REFRESH, METHOD OF OPERATING STORAGE CONTROLLER, AND METHOD OF OPERATING STORAGE DEVICE HAVING STORAGE CONTROLLER | October 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17967626 | STORAGE DEVICE AND AN OPERATING METHOD OF A STORAGE CONTROLLER THEREOF | October 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18045421 | EVICTING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A DATA INTAKE AND QUERY SYSTEM FROM A LOCAL STORAGE | October 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17962387 | METHOD FOR POWER REDUCTION IN MEMORY MODULES | October 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17934940 | REFRESHING A MEMORY BLOCK ON POWER UP BASED ON AN AGE AND/OR TEMPERATURE CONDITION | September 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17934060 | MIGRATION OF DATA TO MAINTAIN DATA RESILIENCY | September 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17934153 | IMPLEMENTING DATA FLOWS OF AN APPLICATION ACROSS A MEMORY HIERARCHY OF A DATA PROCESSING ARRAY | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17933944 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TUNING A MEMORY DEVICE FOR HIGH-SPEED TRANSITIONS | September 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17933720 | HYBRID LOGICAL TO PHYSICAL MAPPING FOR ZNS BASED SSDS | September 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17933183 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR BIT FLIPPING OF LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK CODES | September 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17931746 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | September 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17880481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE CACHE STAMPEDING | August 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17870194 | ACCLIMATING DATA STORAGE MEDIA AND COMPONENTS IN A DATA STORAGE LIBRARY | July 2022 | November 2022 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17870600 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MEMORY SYSTEM | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17793454 | READ-WRITE METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND READABLE MEMORY MEDIUM | July 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17853466 | Storage Operation Routing in a Container System | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17850020 | Optimized I/O Performance Regulation for Non-Volatile Storage | June 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17846732 | Buffer Management in Memory Systems for Read and Write Requests | June 2022 | October 2022 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17786281 | CONTAINER-BASED CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR | June 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17840932 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING MEMORY POWER CONSUMPTION, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | June 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17663767 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING MEMORY CHIP, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17663609 | Adaptive Memory System | May 2022 | October 2022 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17745389 | POWER MANAGEMENT BASED ON DETECTED VOLTAGE PARAMETER LEVELS IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | May 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17744072 | ACCUMULATED DATA TRANSFER AMOUNT ACCESS | May 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17732621 | Configuring Storage Systems Based On Storage Utilization Patterns | April 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17764113 | MANAGING RUNTIME APPARATUS FOR TIERED OBJECT MEMORY PLACEMENT | March 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17679111 | FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND METHOD CAPABLE OF SENDING READ COMMAND OR DATA TOGGLE COMMAND TO ASK FOR FLASH MEMORY DEVICE RETURN MORE PLANE DATA OF DIFFERENT PLANES | February 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17678083 | AUTOMATED NON-DISRUPTIVE MIGRATION OF HOSTS TO AN AUTHENTICATED STORAGE ARRAY CONNECTION | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17677544 | MODIFYING ACCESS OPERATIONS BASED ON TEMPERATURE PROJECTIONS | February 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17677088 | DATA STORAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17650578 | Methods and Systems for Processing Read and Write Requests | February 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17668311 | PRIORITIZED POWER BUDGET ARBITRATION FOR MULTIPLE CONCURRENT MEMORY ACCESS OPERATIONS | February 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17583019 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MEMORY SYSTEM | January 2022 | July 2023 | Abandon | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17579648 | PREDICTION AND PRIORITIZATION OF SOLID-STATE DRIVES REPLACEMENT | January 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17579966 | POWER LOSS DATA PROTECTION IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | January 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17648398 | STRATEGIC POWER MODE TRANSITION IN A MULTI-MEMORY DEVICE | January 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17577651 | Orchestrating Distribution of Function as a Service (FaaS) Workloads to Autonomous Storage Systems | January 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17577489 | Method and Apparatus for Distributing Read Operations Between Emulations in a Storage Engine | January 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17572477 | LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL MAPPING OF DATA GROUPS WITH DATA LOCALITY | January 2022 | December 2022 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17565337 | DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE TECHNIQUES FOR EDGE DEVICES | December 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17546157 | DYNAMIC LATENCY MANAGEMENT OF ACTIVE-ACTIVE CONFIGURATIONS USING MULTI-PATHING SOFTWARE | December 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17538308 | MANAGING WRITE REQUESTS FOR DRIVES IN CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEMS | November 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17533020 | MEMORY PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION METHOD, MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT AND MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE | November 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17514872 | Storage Path Routing in a Container System | October 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17515357 | INCREASED DATA PROCESSING PERFORMANCE OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY EXPRESS (NVME) BLOCK STORE | October 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17500901 | MEMORY POLLING METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | October 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17478449 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD FOR SAME | September 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17468843 | DATA FLOW MANAGEMENT IN A HETEROGENEOUS MEMORY DEVICE USING A THERMAL PROFILE | September 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17411572 | MEMORY PERFORMANCE USING MEMORY ACCESS COMMAND QUEUES IN MEMORY DEVICES | August 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17402230 | CONDITIONAL ROLE DECISION BASED ON SOURCE ENVIRONMENTS | August 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17396117 | ADAPTIVE THROUGHPUT MONITORING | August 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J.
With a 30.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges 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, 36.8% 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.
⚠ 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 SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J works in Art Unit 2137 and has examined 459 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 87.8%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 24 months.
Examiner SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J's allowance rate of 87.8% places them in the 63% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J receive 1.84 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 57% 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 SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J is 24 months. This places the examiner in the 70% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J. This interview benefit is in the 26% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 26.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 29.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 33% 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, 25.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 27% 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 61.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 31.2% 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, 21.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 12% 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 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 51% 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 1.0% of allowed cases (in the 56% 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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