Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172354 | READING QUERY RESULTS FROM AN EXTERNAL DATA SYSTEM | April 2025 | February 2026 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19018940 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL VALUES FOR EVENTS | January 2025 | February 2026 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18973255 | DATA MIGRATION FACTORY | December 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18926591 | TOOL TO BUILD AND STORE A DATA MODEL AND QUERIES FOR A GRAPH DATABASE | October 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18790415 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MULTI-TENANCY DATA ANALYTICS PLATFORMS | July 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18743289 | ENFORCEMENT OF QUERY RULES BASED ON POWER FOR ACCESS TO DATA IN A DATABASE SYSTEM | June 2024 | February 2026 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18669309 | METHODS FOR ENABLING DATA ANALYTICS SERVICE AT SERVICE LAYER | May 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18663417 | TECHNIQUES FOR SECURING COMPUTING INTERFACES USING CLUSTERING | May 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18647566 | IDENTIFYING RELATED VIDEOS BASED ON RELATEDNESS OF ELEMENTS TAGGED IN THE VIDEOS | April 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18624213 | SIMULATION AIDED SENSOR ARRAY OPTIMIZATION | April 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18614467 | SUMMARIZED VIEW OF SEARCH RESULTS WITH A PANEL IN EACH COLUMN | March 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18598638 | METHOD FOR EXECUTING A QUERY IN A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA SPACE USING VECTORIZATION AND A RELATED SYSTEM | March 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18595612 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION | March 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18589670 | PIPELINE QUERY TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM | February 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18585955 | METHOD FOR MIGRATING A CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION DOCUMENT BETWEEN CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS | February 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18582301 | DATA MIGRATION FACTORY | February 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18427375 | Database Request Handling During Data Migration Between Physical Nodes | January 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18415396 | GENERATING MINOR COMPACTIONS TO CAPTURE AGGREGATED ACTIONS FOR COMMIT RANGES TO DATA FILES | January 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18406338 | SNAPSHOT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN OBJECT STORE | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18532167 | ENFORCEMENT OF A MINIMUM RESULT SET SIZE RULE FOR QUERIES REQUESTED FOR EXECUTION AGAINST A DATABASE SYSTEM | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18511383 | AUTOMATED DATA BACKUP | November 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18510318 | Cascading Data Impact Visualization Tool | November 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18385745 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FILTERING MEDIA CONTENT | October 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18385299 | PIPELINE WITH CONTEXT TRANSFER | October 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18496294 | UTILIZING IMMUTABLE UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS TO MANAGE DATABASE PROTECTION | October 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18384248 | Estimating Graph Size And Memory Consumption Of Distributed Graph For Efficient Resource Management | October 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18477939 | METHOD OF CLOUD STORAGE FILE SYNCHRONIZATION PRIORITIZATION FOR SELECTED USERS | September 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18477234 | DYNAMIC WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATIONS USING REAL-TIME EXECUTION FEEDBACK | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18467763 | PROVIDING TAG SUGGESTIONS FOR AN IMAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18242464 | SOFTWARE QUALITY TICKET ENRICHMENT | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 18239690 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND MANAGING A DATA INTEGRATION WORKSPACE | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18453605 | HEAPSORT IN A PARALLEL PROCESSING FRAMEWORK | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18227288 | KEEPING STABLE LEADERSHIP IN RAFT-BASED PROTOCOL WITH FAST AUTOMATIC FAILOVER | July 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18334626 | COMBINING CONTENT WITH A SEARCH RESULT | June 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18208002 | BOTS FOR ACCOUNTING | June 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18207050 | Synthesizing Transformations to Relationalize Data Tables | June 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18206901 | IDENTIFYING INSTANCES OF DIGITAL CONTENT | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18206582 | FEDERATION OF DATA DURING QUERY TIME IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS | June 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18206567 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND USING SHARED NATURAL LANGUAGE LIBRARIES | June 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18329106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLUMN STORE INDICES | June 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18329348 | SHARE-BASED REPLICATION | June 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18329195 | INTERACTIVE SEARCH EXPLORATION | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18205212 | TOOL TO BUILD AND STORE A DATA MODEL AND QUERIES FOR A GRAPH DATABASE | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18323581 | IDENTIFYING MERCHANT DATA ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE DATA STRUCTURES | May 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18313752 | Data Compression for Real-Time Analytics | May 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18034481 | AN ELECTRONIC DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD | April 2023 | April 2025 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18309596 | RUNTIME SYSTEMS QUERY COORDINATOR | April 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18298180 | METHOD FOR MULTI-USER CONFIDENTIAL QUERYING OF THE PRESENCE OF A RECORD IN A DATABASE | April 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18297789 | TECHNIQUES FOR SECURING COMPUTING INTERFACES USING CLUSTERING | April 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18194506 | MOBILE COMPUTING NETWORK PROGRAMMING FOR QUERIED CONTENT CAPTURE | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18193316 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DYNAMIC PENETRATION TESTING ON ACTIVE BACKUP SYSTEM | March 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18191125 | SYSTEM FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING QUERIES BY CONTENT | March 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18190585 | ROW-LEVEL PERMISSIONING BASED ON EVALUATED POLICIES | March 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18186228 | Low-Latency Predictive Database Analysis | March 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 31 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 18180397 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL VALUES FOR EVENTS | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18173464 | USING A COMPLEX VALUE-BEARING LANGUAGE EXPRESSION TO GENERATE METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH AN ARTIFACT | February 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18161792 | BI-DIRECTIONAL QUERY UPDATES IN A USER INTERFACE | January 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18160901 | GENERATING FILES FOR VISUALIZING QUERY RESULTS | January 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18159035 | ADDING A READ-ONLY QUERY ENGINE TO PERFORM QUERIES TO A POINT-IN-TIME OF A WRITE-ACCESSIBLE DATABASE | January 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18155293 | QUERY-BASED DATABASE REDACTION | January 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 26 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18149631 | Method and Device for Publishing Cross-Network User Behavioral Data | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 18066835 | CELL-BASED TABLE MANIPULATION OF EVENT DATA TO GENERATE SEARCH COMMANDS | December 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 27 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17969582 | LOADING QUERIES ACROSS INTERFACES | October 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17968695 | GENERATING QUERIES USING TABLE-BASED INTERACTIVE REGIONS | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17957653 | Data Query Method Supporting Natural Language, Open Platform, and User Terminal | September 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17935201 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION CARDS WITH CONTEXT DATA | September 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17953305 | SUBSCRIBE TO PEOPLE IN VIDEOS | September 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17934404 | IDENTIFYING RELEVANT INFORMATION WITHIN A DOCUMENT HOSTING SYSTEM | September 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 35 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17909389 | SYSTEM DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO DATA IN AN AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT | September 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17816361 | APPENDING TIME RANGES TO DISTINCT STATEMENTS OF A DATA PROCESSING PACKAGE | July 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17816254 | READING QUERY RESULTS FROM AN EXTERNAL DATA SYSTEM | July 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17857781 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TRANSPARENT DATA ENCRYPTION OF DATABASE | July 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17854686 | PLATFORM MANAGEMENT OF INTEGRATED ACCESS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATELY-ACCESSIBLE DATASETS UTILIZING FEDERATED QUERY GENERATION AND QUERY SCHEMA REWRITING OPTIMIZATION | June 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17809830 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR EXTRACTING FROM EXTRACTED FIELDS | June 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17806151 | SUMMARIZED VIEW OF SEARCH RESULTS WITH A PANEL IN EACH COLUMN | June 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17834492 | DATA GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | June 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17828257 | PLATFORM MANAGEMENT OF INTEGRATED ACCESS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATELY-ACCESSIBLE DATASETS UTILIZING FEDERATED QUERY GENERATION AND QUERY SCHEMA REWRITING OPTIMIZATION | May 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827803 | RECOGNIZING AND DISCOVERING NEW SERVICES PROVIDED BY A CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER | May 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17824349 | MIMETIC DATABASE-BASED NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGN METHOD | May 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17663856 | REMOTE STATISTICAL GENERATION OF GRAPHS FOR GRAPH MACHINE LEARNING | May 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 43 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17745867 | PLATFORM MANAGEMENT OF INTEGRATED ACCESS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATELY-ACCESSIBLE DATASETS UTILIZING FEDERATED QUERY GENERATION AND QUERY SCHEMA REWRITING OPTIMIZATION | May 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17734852 | DATABASE RESTORATION ACROSS CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS | May 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17772044 | Providing Data Streams to a Client | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17728825 | QUERY GENERATION FOR COLLABORATIVE DATASETS | April 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17723949 | HEAPSORT IN A PARALLEL PROCESSING FRAMEWORK | April 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17693778 | INTERACTIVE TREE REPRESENTING ATTRIBUTE QUALITY OR CONSUMPTION METRICS FOR DATA INGESTION AND OTHER APPLICATIONS | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17681439 | MANAGING EXPIRATION TIMES OF ARCHIVED OBJECTS | February 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17651914 | ENFORCEMENT OF QUERY RULES FOR ACCESS TO DATA IN A DATABASE SYSTEM | February 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17667137 | SYSTEM FOR ANNOTATING INPUT DATA USING GRAPHS VIA A USER INTERFACE | February 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17590579 | SCHEMA AGGREGATING AND QUERYING SYSTEM | February 2022 | May 2022 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17576189 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MULTI-TENANCY DATA ANALYTICS PLATFORMS | January 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17623346 | METADATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND A COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17539694 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FILTERING MEDIA CONTENT | December 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17536583 | IDENTIFYING RELATED VIDEOS BASED ON RELATEDNESS OF ELEMENTS TAGGED IN THE VIDEOS | November 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17526431 | SYSTEM, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING AFFINITY TO A CONTENT CREATOR | November 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17519729 | QUERY-BASED DATABASE REDACTION | November 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17498263 | SNAPSHOT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN OBJECT STORE | October 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17498368 | DEFRAGMENTATION FOR OBJECTS WITHIN OBJECT STORE | October 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17449710 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR COLORING BASED ON DEEP LEARNING | October 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17489545 | PERFORMING A DATABASE BACKUP BASED ON AUTOMATICALLY DISCOVERED PROPERTIES | September 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BULLOCK, JOSHUA.
With a 33.3% 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.
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, 37.1% 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 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 BULLOCK, JOSHUA works in Art Unit 2153 and has examined 335 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 89.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 33 months.
Examiner BULLOCK, JOSHUA's allowance rate of 89.0% places them in the 70% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by BULLOCK, JOSHUA receive 1.89 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 45% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by BULLOCK, JOSHUA is 33 months. This places the examiner in the 46% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BULLOCK, JOSHUA. This interview benefit is in the 27% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 30.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 62% 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 40.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 62% 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, 12.5% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 25% 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 60.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 35% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 22.2% 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, 32.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 19% 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 11% 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 0.7% of allowed cases (in the 57% 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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