Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18423018 | DATA RELOCATION OPERATION TECHNIQUES | January 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18408670 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH CONFIGURABLE POLICY-BASED STORAGE DEVICE BEHAVIOR | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18523512 | Storage system with parallel writes | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18517342 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION AND COMMAND SYSTEM FOR DEFERRED OPERATION | November 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18513894 | WRITE ORDERING FOR PERSISTENT MEMORY | November 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18386862 | STORAGE DEVICE HAVING A CONFIGURABLE COMMAND RESPONSE TRIGGER | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18482539 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE PERFORMANCES OF A MEMORY DEVICE | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18474988 | Scalable Solid-State Storage System and Methods Thereof | September 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18463396 | MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING NONVOLATILE MEMORY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18244165 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERSISTING DATA ACROSS INSTANCES OF A CLOUD SHELL | September 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18241996 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ACCESS MANAGEMENT OF MEMORY DEVICE IN PREDETERMINED COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE WITH AID OF AUTOMATIC PARAMETER SETTING | September 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18241699 | DATA SECURITY FOR MEMORY AND COMPUTING SYSTEMS | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18364785 | USING DATA STORAGE DEVICE OPERATIONAL PROFILES FOR INTERFACE-BASED PERFORMANCE LEVELING | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18228806 | READ ONLY MODE HANDLING IN STORAGE DEVICES | August 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18356777 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING HETEROGENEOUS MEMORIES AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING COMPRESSION DATA BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS MEMORIES THEREOF | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18223900 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STORING DATA | July 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18355233 | CAPACITY ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18223394 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSLATING MEMORY ADDRESSES | July 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18222034 | Data Storage Device and Method for Handling Write Commands in Zoned Storage | July 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18350312 | Mirrored Memory Configuration Method and Apparatus, and Computer Storage Medium | July 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18215185 | CONTROL METHOD OF FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ASSOCIATED FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND STORAGE DEVICE | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18328751 | Hot Growing A Cloud Hosted Block Device | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18196185 | KEY PACKING FOR FLASH KEY VALUE STORE OPERATIONS | May 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18144569 | LARGE DATA READ TECHNIQUES | May 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18313467 | Data Migration Method, Host, and Solid State Disk | May 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18303779 | Volume Placement Based on Resource Usage | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18135894 | MEMORY CONTROLLER WITH IMPROVED MAPPING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY CONTROLLER | April 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18297671 | DATA CONNECTOR COMPONENT FOR IMPLEMENTING DATA REQUESTS | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18296348 | IN-MEMORY WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT IN EDGE DEVICES | April 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18129283 | READ I/O PROCESSING TECHNIQUES USING REMOTE MAPPING RESOLUTION WITH LOGICAL ADDRESS SPACE SLICING | March 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18128136 | DYNAMIC RESIZING AND RE-DISTRIBUTION OF DESTINATION DATA STORAGE RESOURCES FOR BARE METAL RESTORE OPERATIONS IN A DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | March 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18191254 | DEVICE AND METHOD TO MINIMIZE OFF-CHIP ACCESS BETWEEN HOST AND PERIPHERALS | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18191282 | ARITHMETIC PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ARITHMETIC PROCESSING METHOD | March 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18190177 | System and Method for Managing Buffers in a Computer System | March 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18123156 | STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING CROSS NODE DATA REDUNDANCY AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR SAME | March 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18184241 | STORAGE DEVICE FOR LOADING MAP SEGMENT AND SENDING MAP SEGMENT TO EXTERNAL DEVICE, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | March 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18180315 | PSLC-SCAN-BASED STORAGE DEVICE INITIALIZATION SYSTEM | March 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18179735 | MEMORY MODULE AUTHENTICATION EXTENSION | March 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18178706 | IMMUTABLE SNAPSHOT COPIES STORED IN WRITE ONCE READ MANY (WORM) STORAGE | March 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18110582 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | February 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18105327 | IMPLEMENTING MAPPING DATA STRUCTURES TO MINIMIZE SEQUENTIALLY WRITTEN DATA ACCESSES | February 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18160485 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA ACCESS IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18160616 | Host IO Device Direct Read Operations On Peer Memory Over a PCIe Non-Transparent Bridge | January 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18101826 | VARIABLE SIZE METADATA PAGES WITH LOG-STRUCTURED METADATA | January 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18090645 | HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEM AND ACCELERATOR INCLUDING THE SAME | December 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18087554 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CACHING IN HASHED STORAGE | December 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18084323 | ZONE NAMESPACE | December 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18066973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING MEMORY SPACE | December 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18081605 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | December 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18077854 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERSISTING DATA ACROSS INSTANCES OF A CLOUD SHELL | December 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18073586 | Hash Function with Perfect Hash Component | December 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18060165 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | November 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17994794 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING WRITE PERFORMANCE USING ZONE SHARING IN LOG STRUCTURED SYSTEMS | November 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17990564 | PRESERVING LARGE PAGES OF MEMORY ACROSS LIVE MIGRATIONS OF WORKLOADS | November 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18054666 | NAMESPACES ALLOCATION IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES | November 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18050585 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | October 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17969511 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION AND COMMAND SYSTEM FOR DEFERRED OPERATION | October 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17961373 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE PERFORMANCES OF A MEMORY DEVICE | October 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17949981 | SECURE SELF-PURGING MEMORY PARTITIONS | September 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17945586 | EFFICIENT L2P DRAM FOR HIGH-CAPACITY DRIVES | September 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17931934 | LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER QUEUES AND LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER QUEUE SCHEDULING FOR MEMORY DEVICES | September 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17903293 | ALLOCATION OF STORE REQUESTS | September 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17885642 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR ENVIRONMENT | August 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17817493 | CROSS-HYPERVISOR LIVE RECOVERY OF VIRTUAL MACHINES | August 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17815364 | CLIENT UPDATE OF DATA MODIFICATION TRACKING STRUCTURE | July 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17759426 | AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A SET OF MEMORY MAPPED CONTROL REGISTERS | July 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17869939 | FINGERPRINT-BASED DATA MOBILITY ACROSS SYSTEMS WITH HETEROGENOUS BLOCK SIZES | July 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17855109 | DRAM Row Management for Processing in Memory | June 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17853888 | METHOD FOR MANAGING FLASH MEMORY MODULE AND ASSOCIATED FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | June 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17847449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF FORECASTING TEMPERATURES OF STORAGE OBJECTS USING MACHINE LEARNING | June 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17846761 | MEMORY BLOCK UTILIZATION IN MEMORY SYSTEMS | June 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17843629 | Key Value Data Storage Device With Tiers | June 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17843675 | Key Value Data Storage Device With Improved Utilization For Short Key Value Pairs | June 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17745278 | HARDWARE-SOFTWARE COLLABORATIVE ADDRESS MAPPING SCHEME FOR EFFICIENT PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY SYSTEMS | May 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17661804 | Storage Pool Tiering in a Storage Network | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17729837 | TECHNIQUES FOR DATA TRANSFER OPERATIONS | April 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17729207 | POWER MANAGEMENT | April 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17728293 | PAGE REQUEST INTERFACE OVERHEAD REDUCTION FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION AND WRITE PROTECTION IN MEMORY | April 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17724216 | MEMORY DEVICE HEALTH EVALUATION AT A HOST DEVICE | April 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17723244 | DATA REORDERING AT A MEMORY SUBSYSTEM | April 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17717469 | GARBAGE COLLECTION AND BIN SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE | April 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716275 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH CONFIGURABLE POLICY-BASED STORAGE DEVICE BEHAVIOR | April 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17714794 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERSISTING DATA ACROSS INSTANCES OF A CLOUD SHELL | April 2022 | October 2022 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17764879 | Techniques For Multi-Tiered Data Storage In Multi-Tenant Caching Systems | March 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17695086 | MEMORY CONTROLLER, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | March 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17692796 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND QOS MANAGEMENT METHOD IN STORAGE SYSTEM | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17691158 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD | March 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17688689 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | March 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17683667 | MEMORY SYSTEM | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17638196 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDRESS SPACE OF LOW DELAY FILE SYSTEM AND MEDIUM | February 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17637428 | DYNAMIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT OPERATION | February 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17673537 | Out of Order Data Transfer Hint Calibration | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17671602 | CONTROL METHOD OF FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ASSOCIATED FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND STORAGE DEVICE | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17671603 | CONTROL METHOD OF FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ASSOCIATED FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND STORAGE DEVICE | February 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17650936 | Scalable Solid-State Storage System and Methods Thereof | February 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17669014 | EXPANDING STORAGE CAPACITY FOR IMPLEMENTING LOGICAL CORRUPTION PROTECTION | February 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17667513 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE -ASSISTED LIVE MIGRATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA | February 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17590538 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | February 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17584695 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR THIN PROVISIONING IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY STORAGE DEVICES | January 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17579689 | STORAGE DEVICE READ-DISTURB-BASED READ TEMPERATURE MAP UTILIZATION SYSTEM | January 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner LANE, JOHN A.
With a 33.3% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage 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, 54.5% 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 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 LANE, JOHN A works in Art Unit 2139 and has examined 698 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 96.6%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 17 months.
Examiner LANE, JOHN A's allowance rate of 96.6% places them in the 90% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by LANE, JOHN A receive 0.80 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 8% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by LANE, JOHN A is 17 months. This places the examiner in the 96% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +3.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by LANE, JOHN A. This interview benefit is in the 22% 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.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 35.1% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 45.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 63% 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.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 40.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 34% 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 75.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 59% 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 above-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. The mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) provides an opportunity for reconsideration.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 39.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 37% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.
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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 9% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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