USPTO Examiner WALDRON SCOTT A - Art Unit 2152

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18915272Content Similarity Detection (CSD) computing platform and serviceOctober 2024May 2025Allow710NoNo
18746590ENSURING AVAILABILITY AND INTEGRITY OF A DATABASE ACROSS GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONSJune 2024May 2025Allow1110YesNo
18685166DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MACHINE READABLE MEDIUMFebruary 2024June 2025Allow1620NoNo
18529648MAIN PATH ANALYSISDecember 2023November 2024Abandon1120NoNo
18566726INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2023June 2025Abandon1920NoNo
18509455Determining a coding scheme for a partition of a data setNovember 2023June 2024Allow700NoNo
18509522DATA REPLICA CHANGE ANALYSISNovember 2023April 2025Allow1700NoNo
18499467UTILIZING ASYNCHRONOUS DOUBLE-WRITES TO MIGRATE DATA BETWEEN DATABASESNovember 2023September 2024Allow1100NoNo
18481942Method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for combining output responses corresponding to a plurality of matching user requestsOctober 2023August 2024Allow1110NoNo
18480295Multi-Tenant Transactional Outbox Pattern For Event PublishingOctober 2023June 2025Allow2020YesNo
18458395SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENRICHMENT OF STORED DATAAugust 2023March 2025Allow1830YesNo
18458425PROCESSING FUNCTIONALITY TO STORE SPARSE FEATURE SETSAugust 2023September 2024Allow1210NoNo
18236516UPDATE AND QUERY OF A LARGE COLLECTION OF FILES THAT REPRESENT A SINGLE DATASET STORED ON A BLOB STOREAugust 2023August 2024Allow1210NoNo
18230903Data Transformation SystemAugust 2023November 2024Allow1620NoNo
18349458DATABASE OBSERVATION SYSTEMJuly 2023June 2025Allow2410YesNo
18219510RAW/SANITIZED DATA MODELINGJuly 2023March 2025Allow2020YesNo
18340040MOBILE COMPUTING NETWORK QUERIED CONTENT CAPTUREJune 2023September 2024Allow1510YesNo
18211185CUSTOM REPLACEMENT OF FUNCTIONS WITH INVERSE FUNCTIONS FOR IMPROVED QUERY PERFORMANCEJune 2023May 2025Allow2310YesNo
18327340LABEL PROPAGATION IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMJune 2023October 2024Allow1620NoNo
18196899USER EQUIPMENT FOR FLASHBACK OF DATABASE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFORMay 2023October 2024Abandon1710NoNo
18314350ENSURING AVAILABILITY AND INTEGRITY OF A DATABASE ACROSS GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONSMay 2023March 2024Allow1010NoNo
18312497METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING RESPONSES TO A PLURALITY OF USER REQUESTS IN A SYSTEM THAT VALIDATES TRANSACTIONSMay 2023August 2023Allow410NoNo
18142741METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DATABASE MANAGEMENT AS A SERVICEMay 2023June 2025Allow2620YesNo
18138492INDEXING AND RELAYING DATA TO HOT STORAGEApril 2023November 2023Allow600NoNo
18117284MESSAGE PLATFORM FOR AUTONOMOUS ENTITIESMarch 2023December 2024Allow2220YesNo
18115827PRE-FETCH ENGINE WITH DATA EXPIRATION FUNCTIONALITY FOR MESH DATA NETWORKMarch 2023March 2025Allow2410NoNo
18173431EXPLAINABLE ANOMALY DETECTION FOR CATEGORICAL SENSOR DATAFebruary 2023April 2025Abandon2510NoNo
18166326GENERATING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON INTERMEDIATE SUMMARIESFebruary 2023October 2023Allow810NoNo
18162522FEATURE SETS USING SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA STORAGEJanuary 2023June 2023Allow410NoNo
18160802ACCESSING LISTINGS IN A DATA EXCHANGEJanuary 2023May 2024Allow1520YesNo
18004869CITATION DOCUMENT UPDATES BASED ON ASSOCIATED DOCUMENT MODIFICATIONJanuary 2023August 2024Allow1920NoNo
18149216SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY DATA FLOWS AND DATA MAPPINGS ACROSS SYSTEMSJanuary 2023May 2023Allow400NoNo
18062544EFFICIENT AUTOMATIC WEB SCRAPING SYSTEMS AND METHODSDecember 2022February 2024Allow1430YesNo
17986299Methods and Systems for Determining a Query Response using a Computing Platform in a Domain of Beauty or Cosmetic IndustryNovember 2022November 2024Allow2410NoNo
17984198Metadata Management through Blockchain TechnologyNovember 2022August 2024Abandon2120YesYes
18053553DATA INTEGRITY VALIDATION USING DIVERSIFIED QUERIES ACROSS MULTIPLE SOURCES, INTERFACES, AND NETWORKSNovember 2022April 2025Allow3030NoNo
18049410GENERATING AND MORPHING A COLLECTION OF DATABASES THAT COLLECTIVELY HAS DESIRED DEDUPABILITY, COMPRESSION, CLUSTERING AND COMMONALITYOctober 2022September 2024Allow2310NoNo
17931588QUERY OPTIMIZATION USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGSeptember 2022November 2024Allow2620YesNo
17823132CONFIGURING PARALLELISM PARAMETERS FOR INVOCATION OF EXTERNAL TABLE FUNCTIONSAugust 2022March 2023Allow710YesNo
17899160STORING FEATURE SETS USING SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA STORAGEAugust 2022November 2022Allow300NoNo
17795905MULTIPLE VERSION DATA CLUSTER ETL PROCESSINGJuly 2022September 2023Allow1300NoNo
17813219AUTOMATIC SUB-CLUSTER SELECTION ALGORITHM FOR THE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING OF FILE OBJECTSJuly 2022September 2024Allow2630NoNo
17805426CONTROL SERVICE FOR DATA MANAGEMENTJune 2022November 2024Allow3030YesNo
17660653REMEDIATING DATASET ISSUES IDENTIFIED IN A MACHINE LEARNING CHANGE MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTUREApril 2022October 2024Allow2970YesNo
17659750MACHINE LEARNING ON SEARCH SESSIONS TO PROVIDE INTELLIGENT SEARCH RESULTSApril 2022October 2023Allow1700NoNo
17705848TRANSACTIONALLY CONSISTENT DATABASE EXPORTSMarch 2022May 2024Allow2600NoNo
17705174SENSITIVE DATA DISCOVERY FOR DATABASESMarch 2022January 2025Allow3310YesNo
17697207MULTI-PARTY TRANSACTIONS IN A COMPUTERIZED DATABASEMarch 2022December 2023Allow2120NoNo
17695411UPDATE AND QUERY OF A LARGE COLLECTION OF FILES THAT REPRESENT A SINGLE DATASET STORED ON A BLOB STOREMarch 2022May 2023Allow1410YesNo
17680702PRODUCING EXTRACT-TRANSFORM-LOAD (ETL) ADAPTERS FOR PROGRAMMED MODELS DESIGNED TO PREDICT PERFORMANCE IN ECONOMIC SCENARIOSFebruary 2022October 2024Abandon3210NoNo
17650933LABEL PROPAGATION IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMFebruary 2022February 2023Allow1210YesNo
17649700DATA AGGREGATION SYSTEMFebruary 2022August 2023Allow1920YesNo
17573321ERROR PREDICTION USING DATABASE VALIDATION RULES AND MACHINE LEARNINGJanuary 2022August 2024Allow3210YesNo
17568903COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR GENERATING PARTIAL DATA LINEAGE, METHOD OF GENERATING PARTIAL DATA LINEAGE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR GENERATING PARTIAL DATA LINEAGEJanuary 2022July 2023Allow1810NoNo
17566014DATABASE ANOMALY DETECTIONDecember 2021January 2024Allow2520YesNo
17646200PARTITIONING TO SUPPORT INVOCATION OF EXTERNAL TABLE FUNCTIONS ON MULTIPLE BATCHES OF INPUT ROWSDecember 2021June 2022Allow610YesNo
17556631DELETING RELATED DATA DISTRIBUTED ACROSS APPLICATIONSDecember 2021July 2024Allow3110NoNo
17556342INTERNET OF THINGS DATA SLICING BASED ON INFORMATION CENTRIC NETWORKINGDecember 2021February 2024Abandon2520NoNo
17549941High performance distributed system of record with ledger configuration systemDecember 2021March 2025Allow3920NoNo
17542148INTERACTIVE LINEAGE ANALYZER FOR DATA ASSETSDecember 2021February 2023Allow1410NoNo
17457247Online Updates to Schema Information in Multi-Tenant Database SystemDecember 2021April 2024Allow2810YesNo
17534660Detection of Coactively Linked Topological Structures in Networks and DatabasesNovember 2021October 2023Allow2310NoNo
17532250ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTENTS SEARCHING SYSTEM AND SEARCHING METHOD THEREOFNovember 2021June 2024Allow3120YesNo
17455261MANAGING DATA OBJECTS FOR GRAPH-BASED DATA STRUCTURESNovember 2021January 2023Allow1410NoNo
17527430SEGMENTING A PARTITION OF A DATA SET BASED ON A DATA STORAGE CODING SCHEMENovember 2021September 2023Allow2220YesNo
17527682STORING DATA ITEMS AND IDENTIFYING STORED DATA ITEMSNovember 2021December 2022Allow1310YesNo
17454232EVENT DRIVEN DATA HEALTH MONITORINGNovember 2021December 2023Allow2510YesNo
17518407INDEXING AND RELAYING DATA TO HOT STORAGENovember 2021January 2023Allow1510NoNo
17517178SYNTHESIZING FULLY HYDRATED CLOUD SNAPSHOTSNovember 2021January 2024Allow2640NoNo
17452380UPDATING OF DATA STRUCTURESOctober 2021March 2025Abandon4140YesNo
17503560DATA SYNCHRONIZATION IN CLOUD PLATFORMS WITHOUT DATABASE LOCKINGOctober 2021September 2023Allow2310NoNo
17491198ADDING HIERARCHY OF OBJECTS WHEN INGESTING AND NORMALIZING DATA FROM HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCESSeptember 2021June 2024Allow3220YesNo
17448748VERSION CONTROL AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN A DATASTORE USING A HIERARCHICAL LOGSeptember 2021December 2023Allow2710YesNo
17483636Core Reconciliation System with Cross-Platform Data Aggregation and ValidationSeptember 2021October 2023Allow2550YesNo
17480838DETECTION OF OBJECT REDEPLOYMENT DEPENDENCIES ACROSS CONTAINER BOUNDARIESSeptember 2021March 2024Allow3020NoNo
17475927NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM TO REDUCE RESTORATION TIME OF RowID HYDRA, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD TO REDUCE RESTORATION TIME OF RowID, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS TO REDUCE RESTORATION TIME OF RowID HYDRASeptember 2021August 2023Allow2320NoNo
17473525AUTOMATIC DERIVATION OF SHARD KEY VALUES AND TRANSPARENT MULTI-SHARD TRANSACTION AND QUERY SUPPORTSeptember 2021February 2023Allow1710YesNo
17462938DATA CONSISTENCY MECHANISM FOR HYBRID DATA PROCESSINGAugust 2021July 2023Allow2310NoNo
17462231MAINTAINING ONGOING TRANSACTION INFORMATION OF A DATABASE SYSTEM IN AN EXTERNAL DATA STORE FOR PROCESSING UNSAVED TRANSACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO DESIGNATED EVENTSAugust 2021February 2024Allow2910YesNo
17460487AUTOMATED DATASET PLACEMENT FOR APPLICATION EXECUTIONAugust 2021September 2023Allow2510NoNo
17405141LINKING KEY-VALUE PAIRS IN DOCUMENTSAugust 2021August 2024Allow3610NoNo
17404347GENERATING AND MORPHING A COLLECTION OF FILES IN A FOLDER/SUB-FOLDER STRUCTURE THAT COLLECTIVELY HAS DESIRED DEDUPABILITY, COMPRESSION, CLUSTERING AND COMMONALITYAugust 2021April 2023Allow2020NoNo
17400092ENSURING AVAILABILITY AND INTEGRITY OF A DATABASE ACROSS GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONSAugust 2021March 2023Allow2010NoNo
17390883SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA STORAGE AND PROCESSING FUNCTIONALITY TO STORE SPARSE FEATURE SETSJuly 2021June 2022Allow1120NoNo
17387007INTELLIGENT SUPPORT BUNDLE COLLECTIONJuly 2021November 2024Abandon3940YesNo
17367360UNSUPERVISED ENTITY AND INTENT IDENTIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SEARCH QUERY RELEVANCEJuly 2021December 2023Allow2920YesNo
17361096DATA COMPRESSION BASED ON KEY-VALUE STOREJune 2021July 2022Allow1330YesNo
17327486SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING MULTIMEDIA SEARCH RESULTSMay 2021February 2023Allow2120YesNo
17325561Organizing Time-Series Data for Query Acceleration and Storage OptimizationMay 2021March 2022Allow1020YesNo
17316444QUERY ACCELERATION USING INTERMEDIATE SUMMARIESMay 2021November 2022Allow1820YesNo
17234143High density time-series data indexing and compressionApril 2021July 2024Allow3930NoYes
17223708SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY DATA FLOWS AND DATA MAPPINGS ACROSS SYSTEMSApril 2021September 2022Allow1710YesNo
17216384SCHEMA BASED DATA BUFFERING AND PROCESSING ON A CLIENT DEVICEMarch 2021June 2024Allow3840YesNo
17193495TRANSACTIONAL-UNSTRUCTURED DATA DRIVEN SEQUENTIAL FEDERATED QUERY METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSMarch 2021June 2022Allow1600NoNo
17178874BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUMFebruary 2021January 2023Allow2320NoNo
17175688ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES SENSOR MEASUREMENTS IN PHYSICAL SYSTEMSFebruary 2021February 2023Allow2420NoNo
17163072CORRELATING MULTIPLE TABLES IN A NON-RELATIONAL DATABASE ENVIRONMENTJanuary 2021July 2021Allow510NoNo
17157874LINEAR LATE-FUSION SEMANTIC STRUCTURAL RETRIEVALJanuary 2021December 2022Allow2220NoNo
17156350SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTE TAKING AND MANAGEMENTJanuary 2021March 2023Abandon2620NoNo
17136525AUTOMATIC DATASET PREPROCESSINGDecember 2020June 2023Allow2910YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner WALDRON, SCOTT A.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
1
Examiner Affirmed
1
(100.0%)
Examiner Reversed
0
(0.0%)
Reversal Percentile
4.2%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 0.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
10
Allowed After Appeal Filing
2
(20.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
8
(80.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
21.7%
Lower 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, 20.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Examiner WALDRON, SCOTT A - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner WALDRON, SCOTT A works in Art Unit 2152 and has examined 213 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 89.7%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner WALDRON, SCOTT A's allowance rate of 89.7% places them in the 69% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by WALDRON, SCOTT A receive 1.82 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 56% 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 WALDRON, SCOTT A is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 60% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +9.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by WALDRON, SCOTT A. This interview benefit is in the 45% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 34.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 71% 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 33.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 42% 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.

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 87.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 78% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 71.4% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 34.8% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 29% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 10% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

  • Appeal filing as negotiation tool: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

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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