USPTO Examiner MAY ROBERT F - Art Unit 2154

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18614423TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTING DATA DRIFTS AT SCALEMarch 2024June 2025Abandon1510NoNo
18426130Selective Batching for Inference System for Transformer-Based Generation TasksJanuary 2024March 2025Abandon1410NoNo
18397002JOINING JAVASCRIPT OBJECT NOTATION (JSON) QUERIES ACROSS CLOUD RESOURCESDecember 2023October 2024Allow1000NoNo
18526359Pipelining a binary search algorithm of a sorted tableDecember 2023June 2025Allow1820YesNo
18480392IMAGING DISCOVERY UTILITY FOR AUGMENTING CLINICAL IMAGE MANAGEMENTOctober 2023February 2025Allow1710YesNo
18371758COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM TABLESSeptember 2023August 2024Allow1110YesNo
18353209CONTENT SEARCH AND RESULTSJuly 2023April 2024Allow900NoNo
18339566CLOUD DATA PIPELINE ORCHESTRATORJune 2023March 2025Abandon2110YesNo
18317568USING A HIERARCHICAL MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MEDIA CONTENTMay 2023March 2024Allow1000YesNo
18128984SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN-SITU GRAPH-BASED DATA PROCESSINGMarch 2023October 2024Allow1810NoNo
18129007SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN-SITU GRAPH-BASED DATA PROCESSINGMarch 2023April 2025Abandon2520NoNo
18185092SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND USING DATA MODELMarch 2023July 2024Allow1610NoNo
18121149SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN-SITU GRAPH-BASED DATA PROCESSINGMarch 2023October 2024Allow1910NoNo
18117525METHOD AND SYSTEM TO CREATE AN ACCESSIBLE ENTERPRISE CONTENT BY DESIGNMarch 2023June 2024Allow1610NoNo
18115713Data Compression and Decompression Facilitated By Machine LearningFebruary 2023October 2024Allow1920YesNo
18040650SYSTEM FOR CONFLICT LESS CONCURRENCY CONTROLFebruary 2023December 2023Allow1000NoNo
18007451TEXT DISPLAY METHOD, COMPILATION METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICEJanuary 2023January 2025Abandon2420YesNo
18158228BUILDING COLLABORATIVE DATA PROCESSING FLOWSJanuary 2023April 2024Allow1520YesNo
18152286USER INTERFACE FOR EVENT DATA STOREJanuary 2023December 2023Allow1110NoNo
18092779APPROXIMATE QUERY PROCESSING FOR JOIN QUERIESJanuary 2023August 2024Allow1910YesNo
18003116OBJECT RECOMMENDATIONDecember 2022May 2024Allow1710NoNo
18077354ONE-SHOT LEARNING FOR TEXT-TO-SQLDecember 2022March 2024Allow1510YesNo
18063343DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPH VIEW SELECTION FOR A RELATIONAL-GRAPH DATABASEDecember 2022March 2025Allow2710YesNo
18008736Method, System, and Device for Evaluating Performance of Document SearchDecember 2022May 2024Allow1710YesNo
18049096SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGENTLESS DETECTION OF SENSITIVE DATA ON MANAGED DATABASESOctober 2022August 2024Allow2220NoNo
17969645Selective Batching for Inference System for Transformer-Based Generation TasksOctober 2022October 2023Allow1210YesNo
17967871System and Method for Database Searching and ReportingOctober 2022November 2024Allow2520YesNo
17948139SELECTIVE BATCHING FOR INFERENCE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMER-BASED GENERATION TASKSSeptember 2022October 2023Allow1310YesNo
17942075Edge-Distributed Query Processing in Value Chain NetworksSeptember 2022April 2024Allow1910YesNo
17822501DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF BATCHING DATA REQUESTS FOR APPLICATION EXTENSIONSAugust 2022July 2024Allow2320YesNo
17889872CANONICALIZING SEARCH QUERIES TO NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONSAugust 2022February 2024Allow1810YesNo
17877946SIMILARITY BASED COMPRESSIONJuly 2022April 2024Allow2110YesNo
17872955SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING USE OF IMAGES USING LANDMARKS OR AREAS OF INTERESTJuly 2022February 2024Allow1910YesNo
17869693IDENTIFYING AND PRESERVING EVIDENCE OF AN INCIDENT WITHIN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS PLATFORMJuly 2022August 2023Allow1310YesNo
17858373INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, STANDALONE DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, APPARATUS, PROCESS, AND METHODS OF USEJuly 2022December 2024Abandon2910NoNo
17856696DARK WEB CONTENT ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATIONJuly 2022June 2023Allow1100YesNo
17613483TEXT CLASSIFICATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2022November 2024Abandon3610NoNo
17706422SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGION PERSONA GENERATIONMarch 2022August 2024Allow2920YesNo
17667676SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OFF-CHAIN ACTION ORCHESTRATION USING BLOCKCHAIN EVENTSFebruary 2022July 2024Allow2930YesNo
17644181METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTION ARTIFACT MANAGEMENTDecember 2021September 2024Allow3320YesNo
17550121CREATION OF A SUMMARY FOR A PLURALITY OF TEXTSDecember 2021June 2023Allow1810YesNo
17546457INTEGRATING ACCESS TO MULTIPLE SOFTWARE APPLICATIONSDecember 2021May 2025Abandon4240YesNo
17542189SELECTIVE BATCHING FOR INFERENCE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMER-BASED GENERATION TASKSDecember 2021June 2022Allow710NoNo
17523504LEARNING AND TRAINING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMNovember 2021November 2024Abandon3620NoNo
17609812INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICENovember 2021June 2024Allow3120NoNo
17521848SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THIRD-PARTY PASSWORD-LESS ACCESS TO A SECURE DATABASENovember 2021December 2024Allow3720NoNo
17452960CONTENT SEARCH AND RESULTSOctober 2021February 2023Allow1600NoNo
17452778SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA STORAGEOctober 2021August 2024Allow3420YesNo
17444114METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ARCHITECTURE WEIGHTED SCORING MODELJuly 2021May 2024Allow3310NoNo
17387826POINT-IN-TIME BACKUPS MADE ACCESSIBLE OVER ISCSI PROTOCOL FOR READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS BY A REMOTE APPLICATIONJuly 2021March 2023Allow2010NoNo
17426066WORKFLOW INITIATION BASED ON A SIMULATED NETWORK ADDRESSJuly 2021December 2024Abandon4110NoNo
17384577DATA INGESTION PLATFORMJuly 2021November 2022Allow1630YesNo
17373281LATENT NETWORK SUMMARIZATIONJuly 2021August 2023Allow2510YesNo
17350294MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL ASSISTANTSJune 2021May 2024Allow3420YesNo
17349361Imaging Discovery Utility for Augmenting Clinical Image ManagementJune 2021July 2023Allow2500YesNo
17240701PREDICTIVE AND ADAPTIVE QUEUE FLUSHING FOR REAL-TIME DATA RECONCILIATION BETWEEN LOCAL AND REMOTE DATABASESApril 2021October 2022Allow1800NoNo
17175826REMOTE PROCESSING OF MEMORY AND FILES RESIDING ON ENDPOINT COMPUTING DEVICES FROM A CENTRALIZED DEVICEFebruary 2021May 2023Abandon2710NoNo
17169931INTERACTION LAYER NEURAL NETWORK FOR SEARCH, RETRIEVAL, AND RANKINGFebruary 2021March 2024Allow3720NoYes
17153724JOINING JAVASCRIPT OBJECT NOTATION (JSON) QUERIES ACROSS CLOUD RESOURCESJanuary 2021September 2023Allow3210YesNo
17129543USER INTERFACE FOR SEARCHINGDecember 2020March 2024Allow3920YesNo
17121319Systems and Methods for Dynamic Content Optimization at the Network Edge Using Shared Customizable FunctionsDecember 2020October 2023Allow3410YesNo
17105059STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING ENCODERNovember 2020November 2023Allow3610NoNo
17104921SEARCHING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SENSOR DATA REPOSITORY BASED ON CONTEXT EMBEDDINGNovember 2020May 2024Allow4110YesNo
17097489SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATON OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION CARDS INTO A CLIENT APPLICATIONNovember 2020September 2022Allow2210YesNo
17075302USING A HIERARCHICAL MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MEDIA CONTENTOctober 2020February 2023Allow2810YesNo
17072743METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SCHEDULING A USER TRANSPORTOctober 2020June 2022Allow2040NoNo
17063731SHARING FINANCIAL CRIME KNOWLEDGEOctober 2020February 2024Allow4030YesNo
17034285METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING PUBLIC SAFETY DATA QUERIES AND RESPONSESSeptember 2020December 2023Allow3830NoNo
17004321METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATABASE CONFIGURATION PARAMETER, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2020September 2022Allow2510YesNo
16945720COMBINING COMPRESSED AND UNCOMPRESSED DATA AT QUERY TIME FOR EFFICIENT DATABASE ANALYTICSJuly 2020December 2020Allow400YesNo
16938866System and Method for Identifying Objects in a Composite ObjectJuly 2020June 2023Abandon3510NoNo
16938610Systems and Methods for Multi-Source Reference Class Identification, Base Rate Calculation, and PredictionJuly 2020September 2022Allow2510NoNo
16927388ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR PREDICTING PLAYBACK OF MEDIA DATAJuly 2020January 2023Allow3110YesNo
16924320META-HEURISTICS BASED ON HEAT MAPS FOR SOFTWARE DISCOVERYJuly 2020August 2023Allow3720YesNo
16917515COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM TABLESJune 2020May 2023Allow3520YesNo
16897538FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL USING BIDIRECTIONAL ENCODER REPRESENTATIONS FROM TRANSFORMERS (BERT) MODEL TRAINED ON GENERATED PARAPHRASESJune 2020May 2023Allow3620YesNo
16869408EFFICIENT CROSS-MODAL RETRIEVAL VIA DEEP BINARY HASHING AND QUANTIZATIONMay 2020February 2023Allow3310YesNo
16862696ANOMALY DETECTION USING AN ENSEMBLE OF MODELSApril 2020December 2022Allow3220YesNo
16855971CONTEXT-AWARE EVENT DATA STOREApril 2020September 2022Allow2910NoNo
16754737METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING CORE PRODUCT TERMSApril 2020June 2023Allow3930YesNo
16650853VISUAL QUESTION ANSWERING USING VISUAL KNOWLEDGE BASESMarch 2020January 2023Allow3420YesNo
16810389DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM FOR SCALABLE ACTIVE LEARNINGMarch 2020October 2023Allow4330YesNo
16803480Joint Visual-Semantic Embedding and Grounding via Multi-Task Training for Image SearchingFebruary 2020June 2023Allow4010YesNo
16802947SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM UNSTRUCTURED OR SEMI-STRUCTURED TEXTUAL SOURCESFebruary 2020August 2023Abandon4120NoNo
16798003Data Compression and Decompression Facilitated by Machine LearningFebruary 2020November 2022Allow3300YesNo
16777412QUERY PROCESSING USING HYBRID INVERTED INDEX OF PREDICATESJanuary 2020August 2022Allow3010YesNo
16776126MONITORING AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM UTILIZING HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING OF STRINGS IN DATA RECORDSJanuary 2020January 2023Allow3510YesNo
16731351METHODS, PERSONAL DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION DETECTION, LINKING AND PURPOSES OF PERSONAL DATA USAGE PREDICTIONDecember 2019March 2024Allow5030NoNo
16726060SEARCHING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SENSOR DATA REPOSITORYDecember 2019August 2023Allow4430YesNo
16704666ONE-SHOT LEARNING FOR TEXT-TO-SQLDecember 2019September 2022Allow3310YesNo
16702424ACCESS SHARING TO DATA FROM CLOUD-BASED ANALYTICS ENGINEDecember 2019January 2023Allow3820YesNo
16617936METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER DEVICE FOR SEARCHING AUDIO, AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2019September 2022Allow3420YesNo
16695641DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED MULTI-STEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMSNovember 2019September 2022Allow3410YesNo
16691479DATA INGESTION PLATFORMNovember 2019June 2021Allow1930YesNo
16681223METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SKETCH BASED SEARCHNovember 2019March 2024Allow5240YesNo
16680091COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING TECHNOLOGY STABILITYNovember 2019September 2020Allow1100NoNo
16589962DARK WEB CONTENT ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATIONOctober 2019March 2022Allow3000NoNo
16556175GLOBAL DEDUPLICATION IN A CLOUD-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMAugust 2019June 2024Allow5860NoNo
16551545ONLINE SEARCH TRENDING TO PERSONALIZE CUSTOMER MESSAGINGAugust 2019June 2023Abandon4640YesNo
16546677BUILDING COLLABORATIVE DATA PROCESSING FLOWSAugust 2019September 2022Allow3710YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MAY, ROBERT F.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
4
Examiner Affirmed
2
(50.0%)
Examiner Reversed
2
(50.0%)
Reversal Percentile
71.2%
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
12
Allowed After Appeal Filing
6
(50.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
6
(50.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
76.7%
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, 50.0% 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.

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 MAY, ROBERT F - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner MAY, ROBERT F works in Art Unit 2154 and has examined 300 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 80.7%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner MAY, ROBERT F's allowance rate of 80.7% places them in the 44% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by MAY, ROBERT F receive 2.21 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 75% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues more office actions than most examiners, which may indicate thorough examination or difficulty in reaching agreement with applicants.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by MAY, ROBERT F is 34 months. This places the examiner in the 23% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +16.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MAY, ROBERT F. This interview benefit is in the 61% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 26.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 32.4% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 40% 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, 57.1% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 46% 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 69.2% of appeals filed. This is in the 50% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 55.6% 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, 47.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 55% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.3% of allowed cases (in the 55% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).

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:

  • Expect multiple rounds of prosecution: This examiner issues more office actions than average. Address potential issues proactively in your initial response and consider requesting an interview early in prosecution.
  • Plan for extended prosecution: Applications take longer than average with this examiner. Factor this into your continuation strategy and client communications.

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.