USPTO Examiner KUDDUS DANIEL A - Art Unit 2154

Dashboard Recent Applications Appeals Analysis Summary Report

Examiner Information

Name: KUDDUS, DANIEL A

Art Unit: 2154

Total Cases: 359

Last Active: August 2023

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application Number	Title	Filing Date	Disposal Date	Disposition	Time (months)	Office Actions	Interview	Appeal
17253504	MATCHING SCORE CALCULATION DEVICE	December 2020	December 2023	Abandon	35	1	No	No
17247044	CHECKPOINTS MANAGEMENT BY A MEMORY CONTROLLER	November 2020	April 2024	Allow	41	2	Yes	Yes
16951062	DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING DATA	November 2020	January 2023	Allow	26	2	Yes	No
17056161	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZATION AND PRESENTATION OF HETEROGENEOUS MEDICAL DATA	November 2020	May 2023	Allow	30	2	No	Yes
17072597	GENERATING A QUERY USING TRAINING OBSERVATIONS	October 2020	April 2023	Allow	30	2	Yes	No
17070738	INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, RELATED DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM	October 2020	April 2023	Allow	30	2	Yes	No
17068410	CATEGORICAL EXPLORATION FACILITATION RESPONSIVE TO BROAD SEARCH QUERIES	October 2020	September 2023	Allow	36	2	Yes	Yes
17039469	PARALLEL DYNAMIC AGGREGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD	September 2020	March 2023	Allow	29	2	No	No
17039676	INTEGRATED UNIVERSAL FILE CONVERTER	September 2020	February 2023	Allow	29	2	Yes	No
17030500	Multi-Level Data Structure Comparison Using Commutative Digesting for Unordered Data Collections	September 2020	August 2023	Allow	35	2	Yes	No
16939668	QUANTUM FILE METADATA SERVICE	July 2020	June 2023	Allow	34	2	Yes	No
16938906	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESOLVING RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN DATA SETS	July 2020	May 2023	Allow	34	2	Yes	No
16946662	Methods Data Structures Circuits Devices Systems and Functionally Associated Machine Executable Code for Artificial Intelligence Based Situational Assessment	June 2020	November 2022	Abandon	29	1	No	No
16909643	SYSTEM FOR LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS	June 2020	March 2023	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
16946032	DATA CAPTURING AND STRUCTURING METHOD AND SYSTEM	June 2020	December 2022	Allow	30	2	Yes	No
16882471	EMBRYONIC DNA REGISTRY	May 2020	November 2022	Abandon	30	1	No	No
16881233	SCALING OUT DATA PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE	May 2020	February 2023	Allow	32	2	No	No
16863464	FILE DELETION IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM	April 2020	January 2023	Allow	32	2	Yes	Yes
16862869	DYNAMICALLY NORMALIZING INTERVALS IN A TABLE	April 2020	October 2022	Allow	29	2	Yes	No
16862182	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION PROMOTION	April 2020	June 2023	Allow	38	2	Yes	No
16852634	DATA RECOVERY DURING INFRASTRUCTURE OUTAGE EVENTS	April 2020	January 2023	Allow	32	2	Yes	No
16821132	EXTRACTING SEASONAL, LEVEL, AND SPIKE COMPONENTS FROM A TIME SERIES OF METRICS DATA	March 2020	July 2023	Allow	40	1	Yes	No
16804399	Contrasting Document-Embedded Structured Data and Generating Summaries Thereof	February 2020	September 2022	Allow	30	2	Yes	No
16805262	AGGREGATING PERSONALIZED SUGGESTIONS FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES	February 2020	March 2023	Allow	36	2	Yes	No
16791091	PLUGGABLE DATABASE ARCHIVE	February 2020	August 2022	Allow	30	2	Yes	No
16636630	Resource Search Method and Related Product	February 2020	June 2022	Allow	28	2	Yes	No
16779080	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPORTING MULTIPLE OBJECTS IN ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT	January 2020	February 2023	Allow	37	2	Yes	No
16633274	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPANDING SEARCH QUERIES USING CLINICAL CONTEXT INFORMATION	January 2020	February 2023	Allow	37	2	Yes	No
16746993	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED ANNOTATION OF DATA	January 2020	March 2023	Allow	38	2	Yes	No
16738595	Prioritizing Rebuilding Erasure Coded Data In A Storage Network	January 2020	September 2022	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
16721542	BLOCKCHAIN BASED DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE	December 2019	April 2021	Allow	16	2	Yes	No
16711014	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF FACETED SEARCH	December 2019	November 2022	Allow	35	2	Yes	No
16696561	VISUAL IMAGE SEARCH USING TEXT-BASED SEARCH ENGINES	November 2019	October 2022	Allow	35	2	Yes	No
16685731	SEARCH METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM	November 2019	May 2023	Allow	42	2	Yes	No
16684901	CONDITIONAL MASTER ELECTION IN DISTRIBUTED DATABASES	November 2019	February 2023	Allow	39	3	Yes	No
16677565	SYNCHRONOUS OBJECT PLACEMENT FOR INFORMATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT	November 2019	July 2022	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
16669429	QUERY EXECUTION OPTIMIZATION FOR PARTIALLY TYPED SEMANTICS	October 2019	June 2022	Allow	32	2	Yes	No
16593669	GARBAGE COLLECTION FOR HASH-BASED DATA STRUCTURES	October 2019	January 2022	Allow	28	1	Yes	No
16591432	PIPELINED SEARCH QUERY, LEVERAGING REFERENCE VALUES OF AN INVERTED INDEX TO DETERMINE A SET OF EVENT DATA AND PERFORMING FURTHER QUERIES ON THE EVENT DATA	October 2019	April 2022	Allow	31	2	Yes	No
16553314	DATABASE-AGNOSTIC PARALLEL READS	August 2019	April 2022	Allow	32	2	Yes	No
16547760	Method and System for Retrieving Data from Different Sources that Relates to a Single Entity	August 2019	April 2022	Abandon	32	1	No	No
16541852	Query Combination In A Hybrid Multi-Cloud Database Environment	August 2019	August 2022	Abandon	36	2	No	No
16527854	LEVERAGING REFERENCES VALUES IN INVERTED INDEXES TO RETRIEVE ASSOCIATED EVENT RECORDS COMPRISING RAW MACHINE DATA	July 2019	April 2022	Allow	32	2	Yes	No
16331467	RETRIEVAL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR JUDGMENT DOCUMENTS	July 2019	November 2021	Allow	33	1	Yes	No
16513262	ACCESSING AND DISPLAYING SHARED DATA	July 2019	May 2022	Allow	34	2	Yes	No
16455324	NOISE MITIGATION IN VECTOR SPACE REPRESENTATIONS OF ITEM COLLECTIONS	June 2019	November 2020	Abandon	16	2	Yes	No
16450845	INTERACTIVE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR VISUALIZATION OF QUERIES AND QUERY RESULT INFORMATION	June 2019	December 2021	Allow	30	2	Yes	No
16434760	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING SEARCHES AT TARGET DEVICES	June 2019	August 2022	Allow	38	3	Yes	No
16425341	MANAGING OBJECT VALUES AND RESOURCE CONSUMPTION	May 2019	November 2019	Allow	6	1	Yes	No
16413391	Systems And Methods For Presenting Recognizable Bank Account Transaction Descriptions Compiled Through Customer Collaboration	May 2019	July 2022	Allow	38	3	Yes	Yes
16404620	DETERMINING AVAILABLE REMOTE STORAGES IN A NETWORK TO USE TO REPLICATE A FILE BASED ON A GEOGRAPHICAL REQUIREMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE FILE	May 2019	February 2022	Allow	33	2	Yes	Yes
16397408	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SEARCHES FOR TELEVISION CONTENT USING REDUCED TEXT INPUT	April 2019	July 2024	Abandon	60	6	Yes	No
16385465	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CACHING AND SEARCHING FOR SEARCH RESULTS	April 2019	October 2023	Abandon	54	2	Yes	No
16334461	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DATA FROM PLURALITY OF SOURCES	March 2019	April 2022	Abandon	37	2	Yes	No
16286125	Method and System for Sharing Access to a Database	February 2019	January 2022	Allow	34	2	Yes	No
16240240	Design Analysis for Framework Assessment	January 2019	October 2021	Allow	34	2	Yes	No
16239597	REDUCING PROCESSING FOR COMPARING LARGE METADATA SETS	January 2019	November 2021	Allow	34	2	Yes	No
16229366	PAIRING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS	December 2018	March 2022	Allow	39	3	Yes	No
16212396	FILE-BASED SOFTWARE APPLICATION DISCOVERY	December 2018	May 2022	Allow	41	2	Yes	No
16181729	SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTEXT AWARE SEARCHING	November 2018	August 2021	Allow	34	2	Yes	No
16182224	SURGICAL NETWORK, INSTRUMENT, AND CLOUD RESPONSES BASED ON VALIDATION OF RECEIVED DATASET AND AUTHENTICATION OF ITS SOURCE AND INTEGRITY	November 2018	December 2021	Allow	37	2	Yes	No
16182112	Tracking Changes in Database Data	November 2018	March 2022	Allow	40	3	Yes	No
16181629	CUSTOMIZED DISPLAY OF EMOTIONALLY FILTERED SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT	November 2018	August 2021	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
16098929	Method for parallel maintenance of data consistency	November 2018	April 2021	Allow	30	2	Yes	No
16179305	DATA REDUCTION REPORTING IN STORAGE SYSTEMS	November 2018	August 2021	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
16179725	METHOD TO WRITE DATA AHEAD TO SNAPSHOT AREA TO AVOID COPY-ON-WRITE	November 2018	May 2021	Allow	31	2	Yes	No
16168666	Exchange Of Newly-Added Information Over the Internet	October 2018	October 2019	Abandon	11	1	No	No
16148368	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING A DATABASE QUERY	October 2018	August 2019	Allow	11	2	Yes	No
16146447	CONGESTION CONTROL IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE NETWORK	September 2018	June 2021	Abandon	32	1	No	No
16145940	SELECTING STORAGE UNITS OF A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK	September 2018	May 2021	Abandon	32	1	No	No
16145670	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SUMMARY OF RESEARCH DOCUMENT	September 2018	June 2021	Allow	33	2	No	No
16145825	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAGGING DATABASE PROPERTIES	September 2018	September 2021	Allow	35	2	Yes	No
16145289	CONTENT CLASSIFICATION TOOL WITH RE-CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES	September 2018	April 2021	Allow	31	2	Yes	No
16145766	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONTEXTUALLY-RELEVANT KEYWORDS	September 2018	July 2021	Allow	34	2	Yes	No
16145013	TRANSACTION ASSOCIATIONS IN WAVEFORM DISPLAYS	September 2018	March 2021	Allow	30	2	Yes	No
16138326	Methods and Apparatus for Filtering Dynamically Loadable Namespaces (DLNs)	September 2018	June 2021	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
16117050	Data Classification Using Data Flow Analysis	August 2018	June 2021	Allow	34	3	Yes	No
16117313	Automatically Identifying Source Code Relevant to a Task	August 2018	November 2020	Allow	26	1	Yes	No
16106256	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED MICROARRAY INFORMATION CITATION ANALYSIS	August 2018	July 2021	Abandon	35	2	No	No
16105535	TECHNIQUES FOR INDEXING AND QUERYING A SET OF DOCUMENTS AT A COMPUTING DEVICE	August 2018	February 2022	Allow	42	3	Yes	No
16104543	MERIT-BASED ANONYMOUS CONTENT DISTRIBUTION	August 2018	June 2021	Abandon	34	2	Yes	No
16050479	MAXIMIZING OPERATOR PARALLELISM	July 2018	May 2021	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
16050225	TAPE IMAGE RECLAIM IN HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEMS	July 2018	October 2021	Allow	38	4	Yes	No
16050661	Method for Dynamically Assigning Question Priority Based on Question Extraction and Domain Dictionary	July 2018	March 2021	Allow	31	2	Yes	Yes
16022242	File Transfer Using Standard Blocks and Standard-Block Identifiers	June 2018	February 2021	Allow	32	2	Yes	No
16001454	NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH PRE-SPECIFIED SQL QUERIES	June 2018	March 2021	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
15978066	Data Visualization User Interface Using Cohesion of Sequential Natural Language Commands	May 2018	January 2021	Allow	32	2	Yes	Yes
15978067	Updating Displayed Data Visualizations According to Identified Conversation Centers in Natural Language Commands	May 2018	February 2021	Allow	33	2	Yes	Yes
15978062	APPLYING NATURAL LANGUAGE PRAGMATICS IN A DATA VISUALIZATION USER INTERFACE	May 2018	May 2020	Allow	25	0	Yes	No
15934792	POLICY BASED MANAGEMENT FOR KEY-VALUE PAIRS	March 2018	June 2021	Allow	39	3	Yes	No
15925823	RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND UPDATE REFLECTION APPARATUS	March 2018	November 2020	Allow	32	2	Yes	No
15926284	DATA RELEVANCY ANALYSIS FOR BIG DATA ANALYTICS	March 2018	June 2020	Allow	27	1	No	No
15926138	CATEGORICAL EXPLORATION FACILITATION RESPONSIVE TO BROAD SEARCH QUERIES	March 2018	August 2020	Allow	29	2	Yes	No
15926262	PREDICTIVE QUERY PROCESSING FOR COMPLEX SYSTEM LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT	March 2018	December 2020	Allow	33	2	Yes	No
15926077	NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, ENCODE DEVICE, AND ENCODE METHOD	March 2018	April 2021	Allow	37	3	No	No
15761658	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POINT-OF-INTEREST RECOGNITION	March 2018	August 2021	Abandon	41	3	No	No
15925707	AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING MEANINGFUL USER SEGMENTS	March 2018	February 2021	Allow	35	1	Yes	No
15925719	METHOD OF SEARCHING AN IMAGE FILE IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM, RELATED IMAGE FILE SEARCHING DEVICE, AND RELATED COMPUTER SYSTEM	March 2018	September 2020	Allow	30	2	No	No
15920758	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING AND RECOMMENDING MEDIA CONTENT BASED ON SEQUENTIAL CONTEXT	March 2018	May 2020	Allow	26	1	Yes	No
15896391	SECURE LOW-WEIGHT DATA HUB	February 2018	October 2020	Allow	32	2	No	No

Appeals Overview

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

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions

Examiner Affirmed

(50.0%)

Examiner Reversed

(50.0%)

Reversal Percentile

71.7%

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

Allowed After Appeal Filing

(42.6%)

Not Allowed After Appeal Filing

(57.4%)

Filing Benefit Percentile

70.2%

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, 42.6% 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.

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 KUDDUS, DANIEL A - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner KUDDUS, DANIEL A works in Art Unit 2154 and has examined 359 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.6%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner KUDDUS, DANIEL A's allowance rate of 83.6% places them in the 59% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by KUDDUS, DANIEL A receive 2.52 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 70% 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 KUDDUS, DANIEL A is 34 months. This places the examiner in the 43% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +38.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by KUDDUS, DANIEL A. This interview benefit is in the 85% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 31.1% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 65% 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 30.1% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 45% 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, 17.4% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 27% 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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 64.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 45% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 29.5% 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, 34.6% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 21% 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 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 12% 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:

Prioritize examiner interviews: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner. Request an interview after the first office action to clarify issues and potentially expedite allowance.

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.

Limitation of Liability: Under no circumstances will IronCrow AI be liable for any outcome, decision, or action resulting from your reliance on the statistics, analysis, or recommendations presented in this report. Past prosecution patterns do not guarantee future results.

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.