Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17108374 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING DATA SCHEMA FOR DATABASES DURING DATA INSERTION | December 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17106851 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION RESULTS | November 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17073436 | MASKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION IN A DOCUMENT | October 2020 | May 2024 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17067481 | COMPUTERIZED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA CLONING | October 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17027696 | MANAGING VERSIONS OF OBJECTS RESULTING FROM APPENDING DATA FOR SPACE EFFICIENCY | September 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16906232 | AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF UNSTRUCTURED TEXT DATA IN PAIRED DATA FIELDS OF A DOCUMENT | June 2020 | December 2023 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16849873 | Generating Reports from Unstructured Data | April 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16843218 | ELECTRONIC MEDIA RETRIEVAL | April 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 35 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16839131 | QUERY EXPANSION IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS | April 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16829450 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | March 2020 | September 2023 | Abandon | 42 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16812121 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING SAMPLES | March 2020 | October 2022 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16780636 | DEMAND BASED FILE REPLICATION | February 2020 | November 2022 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16669864 | METHOD FOR ORGANISING CONTENT | October 2019 | October 2022 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16534375 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION RESULTS | August 2019 | August 2020 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16409284 | CONTAINER-BASED VIRTUALIZATION FOR TESTING DATABASE SYSTEM | May 2019 | October 2023 | Allow | 53 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16364168 | MEASURING AND INCREASING THE QUALITY OF USER-PROVIDED INFORMATION | March 2019 | September 2021 | Abandon | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16280252 | DATA EXTRACTION USING A DISTRIBUTED INDEXING ARCHITECTURE FOR DATABASES | February 2019 | September 2022 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16280591 | EFFICIENT GRAPH QUERY EXECUTION ENGINE SUPPORTING GRAPHS WITH MULTIPLE VERTEX AND EDGE TYPES | February 2019 | January 2024 | Abandon | 59 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16281060 | SYSTEM THAT CUSTOMIZES A RE-RANKER BASED UPON END USER INPUT | February 2019 | October 2023 | Abandon | 56 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16279920 | Data Replication Using Probabilistic Replication Filters | February 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16278585 | Intent Signaling with Collaborators | February 2019 | September 2023 | Abandon | 55 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16252159 | DIRECTING PLACEMENT OF DATA IN CLOUD STORAGE NODES | January 2019 | March 2022 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16251390 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SEARCH KEYWORD PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF | January 2019 | September 2022 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16251760 | BUCKETIZING DATA INTO BUCKETS FOR PROCESSING BY CODE MODULES | January 2019 | April 2022 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16251464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING SYNERGISTIC COMPANIES | January 2019 | March 2023 | Abandon | 50 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16180146 | INTELLIGENT DIAGNOSIS AND RESOLUTION OF DOCUMENT PROCESSING FAILURES | November 2018 | May 2022 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16180880 | DISTRIBUTED DATA DEDUPLICATION REFERENCE COUNTING | November 2018 | July 2022 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16179843 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN INTELLIGENT CROSS-DOMAIN SEARCH | November 2018 | March 2021 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16179562 | Object Mining and Recognition System | November 2018 | August 2022 | Allow | 46 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16179220 | INSTANT REPLAY OF A FILE TO A CLOUD TIER ON A DEDUPLICATION FILE SYSTEM | November 2018 | July 2022 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16145010 | ENSURING INTEGRITY OF RECORDS IN A NOT ONLY STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE DATABASE | September 2018 | October 2022 | Allow | 48 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16145093 | PARTIAL MIGRATION OF APPLICATIONS ACROSS DATABASE SYSTEMS | September 2018 | April 2023 | Allow | 55 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16144974 | VOICE CONVERSATIONAL SEARCH CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT | September 2018 | September 2023 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16117752 | Timeline of Events in Search Based System | August 2018 | April 2022 | Abandon | 44 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16117478 | SMART SEARCH AND HELP SYSTEM | August 2018 | July 2022 | Abandon | 47 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16106536 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RESILIENCE WITHIN AN AUGMENTED MEDIA INTELLIGENCE ECOSYSTEM | August 2018 | May 2022 | Abandon | 45 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16051677 | TAGGING DOCUMENTS TO DISPLAY WITH CONTEXT SENSITIVITY FOR IMPROVED USER EXPERIENCE | August 2018 | July 2023 | Allow | 59 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16052364 | CROSS-APPLICATION INGESTION AND RESTRUCTURING OF CONTENT | August 2018 | February 2023 | Allow | 55 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16052461 | Active Change Detection For Geospatial Entities Using Trend Analysis | August 2018 | December 2020 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16060022 | APPLICATION-AWARE DATABASE BACKUPS | June 2018 | February 2022 | Abandon | 44 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15848491 | COST BASED FUNCTION OPTIMIZATION FOR COUPLED SYSTEMS | December 2017 | September 2022 | Allow | 57 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15847551 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING AN ACTION TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO A USER QUERY AS A FUNCTION OF PRE-QUERY CONTEXT INFORMATION | December 2017 | April 2022 | Allow | 52 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15843582 | STRUCTURED DATA CORRELATION FROM INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE BASES | December 2017 | July 2021 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15844032 | FEED OPTIMIZATION | December 2017 | September 2022 | Allow | 57 | 5 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15843934 | FILE RECOVERY USING ANTI-VIRUS ENGINE AND BACKUP PROVIDER | December 2017 | July 2021 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15844110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLIENT-SIDE DATA ANALYSIS | December 2017 | September 2022 | Allow | 57 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15844209 | SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL | December 2017 | October 2020 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15844072 | ENRICHING A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH | December 2017 | March 2021 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15844061 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMENT RANKING USING NEURAL EMBEDDINGS | December 2017 | April 2021 | Abandon | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15844100 | DETERMINING CONNECTION SUGGESTIONS | December 2017 | May 2021 | Abandon | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15631250 | Techniques and Architectures for Native Data Field Lifecycle Management | June 2017 | November 2021 | Allow | 53 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15630360 | HIGH PERFORMANCE DICTIONARY FOR MANAGED ENVIRONMENT | June 2017 | September 2022 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15630489 | VISUALIZATION-ORIENTED TIME SERIES DATA AGGREGATION | June 2017 | January 2022 | Allow | 54 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15630907 | SERVER SYSTEM AND READING METHOD | June 2017 | September 2021 | Abandon | 51 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 15583617 | System And Method For Interactive Discovery Of Inter-Data Set Relationships | May 2017 | December 2023 | Allow | 60 | 7 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15583624 | Selection Query Language Methods And Systems | May 2017 | December 2021 | Allow | 56 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15583606 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONIC GENERATION OF NARRATIVES | May 2017 | September 2023 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15583836 | BROWSER BASED, PLUGGABLE, WORKFLOW DRIVEN BIG DATA PIPELINES AND ANALYTICS SYSTEM | May 2017 | September 2020 | Abandon | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15476704 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE RECONCILIATION IN AN ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | March 2017 | June 2020 | Allow | 38 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15243258 | RANKING INFORMATION PROVIDERS | August 2016 | September 2019 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15243608 | DEMAND BASED FILE REPLICATION | August 2016 | March 2020 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15243530 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING WEBPAGE BOOKMARKS | August 2016 | May 2019 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15242941 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, EVENT FILTERING APPARATUS, AND EVENT FILTERING METHOD | August 2016 | August 2020 | Abandon | 48 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15243598 | ADJUSTING FEATURE WEIGHTS FOR RANKING ENTITY BASED SEARCH RESULTS | August 2016 | May 2020 | Abandon | 45 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15243719 | EFFICIENT MEANS FOR IDENTIFYING COMMON SUBSEQUENCES USING A TIER SET | August 2016 | September 2019 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15242915 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT ITEMS | August 2016 | July 2022 | Abandon | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15243131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATE VALIDATING MEDIA REDIRECTION IN TESTING PROCESS | August 2016 | February 2022 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
| 15242896 | Method and Apparatus for Information Presentation Based on Service Object | August 2016 | October 2021 | Abandon | 60 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 15159901 | ENTAILMENT KNOWLEDGE BASE IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS | May 2016 | March 2023 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15143579 | Graphically Selectable Filter Parameters for Field Data in a Set of Machine Data | April 2016 | April 2022 | Abandon | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15044165 | Browser Search Result Option to Facilitate Human Spidering | February 2016 | June 2021 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 14986759 | ENTAILMENT KNOWLEDGE BASE IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS | January 2016 | October 2022 | Allow | 60 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14986792 | COMPUTER METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FLAT NAVIGATION | January 2016 | November 2022 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 14987649 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING DATA RECONCILIATION IN DISTRIBUTED DATA STORE SYSTEMS | January 2016 | June 2023 | Allow | 60 | 7 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 14987056 | DATABASE INDEX FOR CONSTRUCTING LARGE SCALE DATA LEVEL OF DETAILS | January 2016 | December 2019 | Abandon | 48 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14987543 | RECIPROCAL DATA FILE PUBLISHING AND MATCHING SYSTEM | January 2016 | March 2019 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14986815 | AUTHORIZED DATA SOURCE VALIDATION OF EVIDENCE TOOL | January 2016 | May 2020 | Abandon | 52 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 14986634 | Time-Differential User Interface for Datacenter Management | January 2016 | March 2023 | Allow | 60 | 9 | 0 | No | No |
| 14960480 | GENERATING MESSAGES USING KEYWORDS | December 2015 | January 2022 | Abandon | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14960557 | Data Replication Based on Compression Ratio History | December 2015 | January 2022 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 14960361 | METHOD OF MANIPULATING VOCABULARY DEPENDING ON THE AUDIENCE | December 2015 | January 2023 | Abandon | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14960181 | CONTENT RELEVANCE IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM BY SIMULATING FEED RANKING MODELS | December 2015 | August 2021 | Abandon | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 14960043 | DISTRIBUTED DATABASE DRIVER MIDDLEWARE | December 2015 | August 2020 | Allow | 56 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14960168 | AUTONOMIC FUSION CHANGES BASED OFF DATA RATES | December 2015 | February 2019 | Abandon | 39 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 14959722 | OPTIMAL INDEX SELECTION IN POLYNOMIAL TIME | December 2015 | May 2021 | Allow | 60 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 14867083 | QUERYING A QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM | September 2015 | March 2020 | Abandon | 54 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14753475 | SCHEMA MANAGEMENT FOR JOURNAL-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS | June 2015 | October 2022 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14753421 | LOGGING FILE SYSTEM METADATA CHANGES USING A SINGLE LOG HOLD PER CACHED BLOCK OF METADATA | June 2015 | November 2020 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 14753495 | COMPACT SNAPSHOTS OF JOURNAL-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS | June 2015 | August 2020 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 14753505 | CONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT USING QUERY RESTRICTIONS IN JOURNAL-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS | June 2015 | September 2022 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14753484 | STORAGE SYSTEM JOURNAL ENTRY REDACTION | June 2015 | August 2020 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 14726334 | DIGITAL ASSET AND DESIGN COMPONENT TRACKING IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT | May 2015 | February 2024 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 14718998 | AUTOMATED COMPATIBILITY MATCHING SYSTEM FOR DOGS AND DOG OWNERS | May 2015 | April 2018 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14435042 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR MANAGING CHRONOLOGICAL INFORMATION | April 2015 | January 2020 | Abandon | 57 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 14434666 | METHOD FOR ORGANISING CONTENT | April 2015 | November 2019 | Abandon | 55 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 14434151 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | April 2015 | December 2018 | Abandon | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14433448 | System and Method for Providing Content in Real-Time | April 2015 | October 2017 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14431629 | Data Collector and Associated Method, Computer Program and Computer Program Product | March 2015 | September 2019 | Abandon | 54 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 14644371 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION LOADING | March 2015 | May 2022 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 14636948 | DYNAMIC NODES FOR MANAGING ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE | March 2015 | February 2020 | Allow | 59 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MCGHEE, TRACEY M.
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.
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, 58.1% 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 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 MCGHEE, TRACEY M works in Art Unit 2154 and has examined 176 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 48.3%, this examiner allows applications at a lower rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 54 months.
Examiner MCGHEE, TRACEY M's allowance rate of 48.3% places them in the 12% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is less likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by MCGHEE, TRACEY M receive 4.15 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 97% 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.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by MCGHEE, TRACEY M is 54 months. This places the examiner in the 4% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +34.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MCGHEE, TRACEY M. This interview benefit is in the 82% 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.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 11.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 7% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show lower effectiveness with this examiner compared to others. Consider whether a continuation application might be more strategic, especially if you need to add new matter or significantly broaden claims.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 13.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 16% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 87.5% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 67% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 80.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 72% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 37.5% 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, 71.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 77% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.
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.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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