USPTO Examiner FAAL BABOUCARR - Art Unit 2138

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18677326WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT USING A TRAINED MODELMay 2024June 2025Allow1200YesNo
18654803MULTI-PORT QUEUEING CACHE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMEMay 2024February 2025Allow910NoNo
18632154POLYSACCHARIDE ARCHIVAL STORAGEApril 2024May 2025Allow1400NoNo
18603117INTEGRATED PIVOT TABLE IN A LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL MAPPINGMarch 2024October 2024Allow700YesNo
18596522RELOCATING DATA IN A MEMORY DEVICEMarch 2024June 2025Abandon1610NoNo
18590173MEMORY DEVICE WITH ON-DIE CACHEFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1520YesNo
18590214DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH VARIABLE CONTAINERS FOR LOGIC BLOCKSFebruary 2024June 2025Allow1610YesNo
18588289FLEXIBLE CACHE STRUCTURE FOR CACHING COMPRESSED AND UNCOMPRESSED DATAFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1300NoNo
18496395CONTROLLING METHOD OF A MEMORY CARDOctober 2023June 2024Allow800YesNo
18492933Quantum CacheOctober 2023August 2024Allow1000NoNo
18477557ACCELERATING CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS WITH CACHINGSeptember 2023June 2025Allow2020NoNo
18478349ENHANCING I/O PERFORMANCE USING IN-MEMORY RESERVATION STATE CACHING AT BLOCK STORAGE SERVICESSeptember 2023October 2024Allow1200NoNo
18470138CACHE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE DEVICESeptember 2023May 2025Allow2020NoNo
18459920REFRESH AND ACCESS MODES FOR MEMORYSeptember 2023April 2024Allow700YesNo
18447031SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOR PAGE WRITE EMULATION MODE IN SERIAL STT-MRAMAugust 2023April 2024Allow810YesNo
18328741MONOTONIC COUNTERS AND COUNTING METHODS BY MONOTONIC COUNTERJune 2023February 2025Allow2120NoNo
18321770MEMORY SYSTEM FOR SECURING RELIABILITY AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFMay 2023September 2024Allow1600YesNo
18296735MANAGING RESTORE WORKLOADS USING A HAZARD FUNCTIONApril 2023January 2025Allow2210NoNo
18123466RELOCATING DATA IN A MEMORY DEVICEMarch 2023April 2024Abandon1310NoNo
18182648MAINTAINING CACHE VALIDITYMarch 2023February 2025Allow2310NoNo
18179781STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING GLOBAL WEAR-LEVELINGMarch 2023December 2024Allow2110YesNo
17619760DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND RELATED PRODUCTJanuary 2023March 2024Allow2700NoNo
18073719MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN GRAPHICS AND COMPUTE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACESDecember 2022April 2025Allow2900NoNo
18072929MULTI-PORT QUEUEING CACHE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMEDecember 2022February 2024Allow1400NoNo
17988809Quantum CacheNovember 2022July 2023Allow800YesNo
17987482SERVICING CPU DEMAND REQUESTS WITH INFLIGHT PREFETCHESNovember 2022December 2023Allow1310NoNo
17984691APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISKS (RAID) ENGINENovember 2022November 2024Allow2400YesNo
17979534VALIDATING READ LEVEL VOLTAGE IN MEMORY DEVICESNovember 2022April 2025Allow2920NoNo
18051869SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT MESSAGES IN A CACHE COHERENT INTERCONNECTNovember 2022August 2024Allow3120YesNo
17974799PROGRAM COMMAND GENERATION WITH DUMMY DATA GENERATION AT A MEMORY DEVICEOctober 2022July 2024Allow2010YesNo
17971414INTEGRATED PIVOT TABLE IN A LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL MAPPINGOctober 2022November 2023Allow1310NoNo
17965545SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING STORAGE TRANSACTIONSOctober 2022February 2025Allow2820YesNo
17957479MULTI-LEVEL STARVATION WIDGETSeptember 2022March 2025Allow3030YesNo
17957795REGION PATTERN-MATCHING HARDWARE PREFETCHERSeptember 2022March 2025Allow3030YesNo
17936783SECURITY VULNERABILITY MITIGATION USING HARDWARE-SUPPORTED CONTEXT-DEPENDENT ADDRESS SPACE HIDINGSeptember 2022January 2024Allow1500NoNo
17955888LAST USE CACHE POLICYSeptember 2022March 2025Allow3040YesNo
17948773METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DATA CACHINGSeptember 2022July 2024Allow2220YesNo
17940311COPY CONTROL DEVICE AND COPY CONTROL METHODSeptember 2022February 2024Allow1710YesNo
17940652MEMORY DEVICE, A MEMORY SYSTEM AND AN OPERATION METHODSeptember 2022March 2024Allow1810NoNo
17940789DRAM ROW COPYSeptember 2022May 2025Allow3220NoNo
17898189CHASSIS SERVICING AND MIGRATION IN A SCALE-UP NUMA SYSTEMAugust 2022January 2025Allow2810NoNo
17898160ACCESSING MEMORY DEVICES VIA SWITCHABLE CHANNELSAugust 2022August 2024Allow2420YesNo
17801278DISTRIBUTED STORAGE VOLUME ONLINE MIGRATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2022December 2024Abandon2820NoNo
17885466CONTROLLING METHOD OF A MEMORY CARDAugust 2022July 2023Allow1110NoNo
17878091MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT, METHOD FOR MEMORY MANAGEMENT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUSAugust 2022September 2023Allow1400NoNo
17878395STORAGE DEVICE HAVING DEDUPLICATION MANAGER, METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF OPERATING STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMEAugust 2022August 2024Allow2520YesNo
17874734STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFJuly 2022September 2023Allow1400NoNo
17758335SORTED CHANGE LOG FOR PHYSICAL PAGE TABLE COMPRESSIONJuly 2022June 2025Allow3530NoNo
17849254Non-Disruptively Moving A Storage Fleet Control PlaneJune 2022December 2024Allow2920YesNo
17841460DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH VARIABLE CONTAINERS FOR LOGIC BLOCKSJune 2022January 2024Allow1900NoNo
17830471MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFJune 2022January 2024Allow1910YesNo
17826605GRANULAR ACCESS CONTROL FOR SECURE MEMORYMay 2022August 2023Allow1510NoNo
17664327MODES TO EXTEND LIFE OF MEMORY SYSTEMSMay 2022August 2024Allow2720YesNo
17741213STREAM ORIENTED WRITING FOR IMPROVING SEQUENTIAL WRITE AND READ PERFORMANCEMay 2022May 2024Allow2511NoNo
17740405STORAGE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMMay 2022May 2024Allow2401NoNo
17775090NAMESPACE LEVEL VALID TRANSLATION UNIT COUNTMay 2022April 2024Allow2310NoNo
17719225REDUCING PROBE FILTER ACCESSES FOR PROCESSING IN MEMORY REQUESTSApril 2022March 2025Allow3530YesNo
17705450CACHE COHERENCY PROTOCOL FOR ENCODING A CACHE LINE WITH A DOMAIN SHARED STATEMarch 2022January 2024Allow2110YesNo
17642002METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CACHE MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK DEVICEMarch 2022November 2024Allow3220YesNo
17579897APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA IN MEMORY SYSTEMJanuary 2022January 2023Allow1200YesNo
17568714SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEAR-STORAGE PROCESSING IN SOLID STATE DRIVESJanuary 2022January 2025Allow3640YesNo
17503861SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING FREE SPACE TO IMPROVE ERASURE CODE LOCALITYOctober 2021October 2023Allow2410NoNo
17411960DEFERRED ECC (ERROR CHECKING AND CORRECTION) MEMORY INITIALIZATION BY MEMORY SCRUB HARDWAREAugust 2021February 2025Allow4210NoNo
17403200RELOCATING DATA IN A MEMORY DEVICEAugust 2021November 2022Allow1500NoNo
17381342PRE-SUSPEND BEFORE PROGRAM IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY (NVM)July 2021May 2024Allow3340NoNo
17382198Performance Allocation among Users for Accessing Non-volatile Memory DevicesJuly 2021June 2023Allow2320NoNo
17358975MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFJune 2021June 2024Allow3610NoNo
17354168FROZEN TIME CACHE FOR MULTI-HOST READ OPERATIONSJune 2021April 2023Allow2220YesNo
17352628MULTI-STAGE CACHE TAG WITH FIRST STAGE TAG SIZE REDUCTIONJune 2021February 2025Allow4410NoNo
17351507VARIABLE PROTECTION WINDOW EXTENSION FOR A TARGET ADDRESS OF A STORE-CONDITIONAL REQUESTJune 2021March 2023Allow2120YesYes
17303883WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT USING A TRAINED MODELJune 2021May 2024Allow3620YesNo
17333372BUFFER POOL MANAGEMENTMay 2021October 2023Allow2930YesNo
17296249DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR, DSP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING EXTERNAL MEMORY SPACEMay 2021June 2023Allow2520NoNo
17318956COMPUTING STORAGE ARCHITECTURE WITH MULTI-STORAGE PROCESSING CORESMay 2021October 2024Abandon4150YesNo
17315015INTEGRATED PIVOT TABLE IN A LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL MAPPING HAVING ENTRIES AND SUBSETS ASSOCIATED VIA A FLAGMay 2021July 2022Allow1400NoNo
17308322SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROFILING HOST-MANAGED DEVICE MEMORYMay 2021October 2022Allow1710YesNo
17238201MAINTAINING DATA IN A FIRST LEVEL MEMORY AND BUCKETS REPRESENTING REGIONS OF MEMORY DEVICES TO EXTEND DATA CACHEApril 2021January 2024Allow3210YesNo
17236183DATA TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENTApril 2021June 2023Allow2601YesNo
17235756SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRE-PROCESSING AND POST-PROCESSING COHERENT HOST-MANAGED DEVICE MEMORYApril 2021January 2023Allow2110NoNo
17234054System and Method for Volume Polarization Across Multiple Storage SystemsApril 2021October 2022Allow1810YesNo
17232428System and Method for Machine Learning-driven Cache FlushingApril 2021January 2023Allow2100NoNo
17231326System and Method for Offloading Copy Processing Across Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) NamespacesApril 2021May 2022Allow1300NoNo
17228007UTILIZING DATA TRANSFER ESTIMATES FOR ACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF A STORAGE ENVIRONMENTApril 2021November 2024Allow4370YesNo
17216710STORAGE DEVICE HAVING A DRIVE ARM WITH MULTIPLE READ-WRITE HEADMarch 2021August 2023Allow2930NoNo
17214426PROVIDING DATA MANAGEMENT AS-A-SERVICEMarch 2021June 2024Allow3940YesNo
17204317MEMORY CONTROLLER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFMarch 2021March 2022Allow1200NoNo
17201924SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOR PAGE WRITE EMULATION MODE IN SERIAL STT-MRAMMarch 2021July 2023Allow2820YesNo
17274631MEMORY DISPOSITION DEVICE, MEMORY DISPOSITION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MEMORY DISPOSITION PROGRAMMarch 2021February 2023Abandon2320YesNo
17192142Data Storage That Controls Decode Performance By Changing Program PLCMarch 2021September 2022Allow1810YesNo
17170003NAMESPACE MAPPING OPTIMIZATION IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICESFebruary 2021January 2024Allow3540YesNo
17150364SELECTION OF HEALTH CARE DATA STORAGE POLICY BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA STORAGE PATTERNS AND/OR PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS USING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINEJanuary 2021August 2023Allow3110NoNo
17133581HARDWARE CONFIGURATION SELECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELDecember 2020February 2024Allow3830YesNo
17130863MATRIX SUPER PARITY FOR DATA STORAGEDecember 2020March 2023Allow2730YesNo
17119470DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING PARTITIONED SCM CACHE MEMORY TO MAXIMIZE PERFORMANCEDecember 2020December 2021Allow1300NoNo
17112374Memory Allocation Method and Apparatus for Neural NetworkDecember 2020March 2024Allow3910NoNo
17103711SHARED MEMORYNovember 2020August 2024Allow4510YesNo
17101326MANAGING RESTORE WORKLOADS USING WEIBULL MODULUSNovember 2020December 2022Allow2500NoNo
17100453MEMORY DEVICE WITH ON-DIE CACHENovember 2020November 2023Allow3630YesNo
17084469REFRESH AND ACCESS MODES FOR MEMORYOctober 2020April 2023Allow3020YesNo
17079138APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MEMORY ADDRESS TRANSLATION DURING BLOCK MIGRATION USING DEPTH MAPPING TABLE BASED ON MAPPING STATEOctober 2020December 2022Allow2620YesNo

Appeals Overview

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

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
2
Examiner Affirmed
1
(50.0%)
Examiner Reversed
1
(50.0%)
Reversal Percentile
70.9%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 50.0% 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.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
3
Allowed After Appeal Filing
2
(66.7%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
1
(33.3%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
90.9%
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, 66.7% 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.

Strategic Recommendations

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 FAAL, BABOUCARR - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner FAAL, BABOUCARR works in Art Unit 2138 and has examined 155 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 94.2%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 28 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner FAAL, BABOUCARR's allowance rate of 94.2% places them in the 83% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by FAAL, BABOUCARR receive 1.85 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.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by FAAL, BABOUCARR is 28 months. This places the examiner in the 50% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a -3.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by FAAL, BABOUCARR. This interview benefit is in the 5% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 35.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 74% 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 8.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 4% 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, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 69% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 60.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 30% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 33.3% 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.

Petition Practice

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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 9% 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 1.4% of allowed cases (in the 60% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

  • 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.

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.

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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.