Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015326 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY DISAGGREGATION ENVIRONMENT | January 2025 | January 2026 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18829608 | Command Processing In Sequential Write Required Zone | September 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18814125 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING IN-MEMORY PROCESSING | August 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18748715 | WORDLINE LEAKAGE TEST MANAGEMENT | June 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18744992 | PSEUDO-FIRST IN, FIRST OUT (FIFO) TAG LINE REPLACEMENT | June 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18635535 | MEMORY CHANNEL CONTROLLER OPERATION BASED ON DATA TYPES | April 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 18 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18419206 | ARRAY ACCESS WITH RECEIVER MASKING | January 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 20 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18403250 | POINT-IN-TIME BACKUP OF APPLICATION DATA STORED ON DISPARATE STORAGE SYSTEMS | January 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18401643 | Metadata Page Prefetch Processing for Incoming IO Operations | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18503118 | INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT OF FERROELECTRIC MEMORY IN A DATA STORAGE DEVICE | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18498032 | OPERATING METHOD OF STORAGE CONTROLLER MANAGING SYSTEM MEMORY BLOCKS AND STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18383729 | ADAPTIVE GENERATION OF MEMORY PARTITIONS | October 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18556468 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONSTRAINING ACCESS TO MEMORY USING CAPABILITIES | October 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18490884 | System and Method for Hybrid Capacity Expansion of Virtual Storage Appliances Deployed on Cloud Storage Devices | October 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18490673 | TECHNIQUES FOR MEMORY RESOURCE CONTROL USING MEMORY RESOURCE PARTITIONING AND MONITORING | October 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18486702 | OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENT SIZING FOR PERFORMING ASSET BACKUP OPERATIONS | October 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18478952 | APPENDING DATA TO A TAPE CARTRIDGE DURING RECALL OPERATIONS | September 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18471680 | ORCHESTRATION OF UNMAP REQUESTS RECEIVED FROM WRITE CACHE INSTANCES OF A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18468742 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING HOST PERFORMANCE BOOSTER CONTROL MODE | September 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18468918 | DYNAMIC CACHE LOADING AND VERIFICATION | September 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 26 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18464797 | System and Method for Managing Metadata Access Locking in Cache | September 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18461661 | MEMORY SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR COMBINING/DIVIDING OF DATA IN DATA TRANSFER | September 2023 | March 2026 | Abandon | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18454693 | COMBINED ON-PACKAGE AND OFF-PACKAGE MEMORY SYSTEM | August 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18227899 | SOLVING SUBMISSION QUEUE ENTRY OVERFLOW WITH SHADOW SUBMISSION QUEUE | July 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18355771 | Redundant Storage Across Namespaces with Dynamically Allocated Capacity in Data Storage Devices | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18220355 | Data Storage Device and Method for Swap Defragmentation | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18217736 | UNIVERSAL FLASH STORAGE (UFS) DEVICE AND METHOD OF WRITING DATA TO A REPLAY PROTECTED MEMORY BLOCK (RPMB) REGION OF A UFS | July 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18298384 | ERROR CORRECTING MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | April 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 33 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18189982 | Reducing Translation Lookaside Buffer Searches for Splintered Pages | March 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18126232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY DISAGGREGATION ENVIRONMENT | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18125218 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATING MEMORY SPACE | March 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18116740 | RECOVERY OF CLUSTERED STORAGE SYSTEMS | March 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17993618 | MANAGEMENT OF A MEMORY FIREWALL IN A SYSTEM ON CHIP | November 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17977144 | ACTIVE-ACTIVE STORAGE SYSTEM AND ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT METHOD | October 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17970674 | Pseudo-First In, First Out (FIFO) Tag Line Replacement | October 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17898667 | TRANSLATING VIRTUAL ADDRESSES IN A VIRTUAL MEMORY BASED SYSTEM | August 2022 | December 2022 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17879967 | METHOD OF OPERATING A STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING DETECTING AN ABNORMAL AREA, WHERE AN ACCESS TIME EXCEEDS A REFERENCE LATENCY, AS AN OPTIONAL AREA IN THE NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND STORING OPTIONAL DATA IN THE OPTIONAL AREA, AND A STORAGE DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD | August 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17877240 | WORDLINE LEAKAGE TEST MANAGEMENT | July 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17877023 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING COUNTERFEIT MEMORY | July 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17815366 | CLIENT ALLOCATION OF MEMORY ACROSS MEMORY SERVERS | July 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17860293 | DATA BLOCK TRANSFER WITH EXTENDED READ BUFFERING | July 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17856637 | ADAPTIVE RAS PLATFORM BASED ON CORRELATIVE PREDICTION | July 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17855549 | EXTENDING SSD LONGEVITY | June 2022 | October 2023 | Abandon | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17839429 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A CROSS-LAYER KEY-VALUE STORE WITH A COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE DEVICE | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17836912 | CACHE WITH SET ASSOCIATIVITY HAVING DATA DEFINED CACHE SETS | June 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17744617 | MULTI-VALUE MAPPING FOR OBJECT STORE | May 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17739379 | ZERO COPY MESSAGE RECEPTION FOR APPLICATIONS | May 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17657498 | ACCESSING ENCODED BLOCKS OF DATA | March 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17701777 | FINAL CACHE DIRECTORY STATE INDICATION | March 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17675533 | HINT-BASED FAST DATA OPERATIONS WITH REPLICATION IN OBJECT-BASED STORAGE | February 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17597985 | PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK FOR HOST PERFORMANCE BOOSTER | January 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 38 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17575869 | FLEXIBLE DEPROVISIONING OF DISTRIBUTED STORAGE | January 2022 | September 2022 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17644085 | Optimizing Data Placement Based on Data Temperature and Lifetime Prediction | December 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17544240 | SECURING SENSITIVE DATA IN MEMORY | December 2021 | September 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17457829 | MANAGING SINGLE-LEVEL AND MULTI-LEVEL PROGRAMMING OPERATIONS | December 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17534283 | STORAGE DEVICES INCLUDING A CONTROLLER FOR HANDLING COMMAND SEQUENCES AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME | November 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17528030 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WORKLOAD DISTRIBUTION ACROSS PROCESSING UNITS | November 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17516915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SRAM LESS ELECTRONIC DEVICE BOOTUP USING CACHE | November 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 41 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17450124 | CACHE OPERATIONS IN A HYBRID DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE | October 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17491058 | STACKED COMMAND QUEUE | September 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 31 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17486970 | APPENDING DATA TO A TAPE CARTRIDGE DURING RECALL OPERATIONS | September 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17478000 | RECALLING FILES FROM TAPE | September 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17478040 | Programmable Memory Controller Circuits And Methods | September 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17468880 | MEMORY SYSTEM IN WHICH INFORMATION ON A TIME IN WHICH INTEGRITY OF A STORED DATA PIECE IS CONFIRMED LAST | September 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17465237 | HASH FUNCTION WITH PRE-SCRAMBLER | September 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17464576 | MEMORY CHANNEL CONTROLLER OPERATION BASED ON DATA TYPES | September 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17407396 | QOS TRAFFIC CLASS LATENCY MODEL FOR JUST-IN-TIME (JIT) SCHEDULERS | August 2021 | January 2024 | Abandon | 29 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17407927 | MEMORY ACCESS CONTROL USING A RESIDENT CONTROL CIRCUITRY IN A MEMORY DEVICE | August 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17394709 | IN-LINE DATA FLOW FOR COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE | August 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17394018 | Pseudo-First In, First Out (FIFO) Tag Line Replacement | August 2021 | July 2022 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17384382 | PREPOPULATING PAGE TABLES FOR MEMORY OF WORKLOADS DURING LIVE MIGRATIONS | July 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17375159 | NUMA-AWARE GARBAGE COLLECTION | July 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17375328 | OPERATING METHOD OF HOST DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE USING CREDIT | July 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17375872 | ARRAY ACCESS WITH RECEIVER MASKING | July 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17358367 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WRITING DATA TO PROTECTED REGION | June 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17358861 | Cache with Set Associativity Having Data Defined Cache Sets | June 2021 | March 2022 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17357004 | Efficient Handling of Background Operations for Improving Sustained Performance of Host Reads and Writes | June 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17304450 | HOST ACCESS TRACKING IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | June 2021 | December 2023 | Abandon | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17303674 | DYNAMIC PERMISSION MANAGEMENT OF STORAGE BLOCKS | June 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 29 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17323628 | COMMAND SCHEDULING IN A MEMORY SUBSYSTEM ACCORDING TO A SELECTED SCHEDULING ORDERING | May 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17322822 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED HYBRID RAID CONTROLLER DEVICE | May 2021 | September 2024 | Abandon | 40 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17314476 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING IN-MEMORY PROCESSING | May 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 37 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17313685 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND MEMORY SYSTEM DISCARD METHOD | May 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17237165 | COMBINED ON-PACKAGE AND OFF-PACKAGE MEMORY SYSTEM | April 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 27 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17232888 | Command Queue Order Adjustment in a Data Storage Device | April 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 33 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17222048 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE NAND DIE COLLISIONS IN A SOLID STATE DRIVE | April 2021 | November 2025 | Abandon | 55 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17170781 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE | February 2021 | February 2023 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17161518 | FREE SPACE MANAGEMENT IN A BLOCK STORE | January 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17156677 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CONTROL MEMORY ACCESS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN CONTROL PROGRAM TO CONTROL MEMORY ACCESS | January 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17152115 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UTILIZING MEMORY MEDIUM FAULT RESILIENCY WITH SECURE MEMORY MEDIUM PORTIONS | January 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17133503 | ADDRESS TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGIES | December 2020 | December 2024 | Abandon | 48 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17103129 | EXTENDING SSD LONGEVITY | November 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17054083 | INTERLEAVED DATA CONVERSION TO CHANGE DATA FORMATS | November 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17033212 | SCALABLE REGION-BASED DIRECTORY | September 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17016229 | Reducing Translation Lookaside Buffer Searches for Splintered Pages | September 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16991075 | DETERMINING PAGE SIZE VIA PAGE TABLE CACHE | August 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16989245 | FLEXIBLE DEPROVISIONING OF DISTRIBUTED STORAGE | August 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16985328 | HASH TABLES IN FLASH MEMORY | August 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16933183 | Upgrading On-Disk Format Without Service Interruption | July 2020 | May 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16925185 | BOUNDED LATENCY AND COMMAND NON SERVICE METHODS AND APPARATUS | July 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner HO, AARON D.
With a 100.0% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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, 57.1% 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.
✓ 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 HO, AARON D works in Art Unit 2139 and has examined 231 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 74.0%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 27 months.
Examiner HO, AARON D's allowance rate of 74.0% places them in the 38% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by HO, AARON D receive 2.32 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 66% 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 HO, AARON D is 27 months. This places the examiner in the 71% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +10.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by HO, AARON D. This interview benefit is in the 44% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 18.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 17% 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 30.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 44% 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, 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.
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, 16.7% 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, 26.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 14% 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 0.0% 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 10.5% of allowed cases (in the 89% 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.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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