Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933206 | Graphical System to Reduce Cognitive Costs of Outstanding Subportfolio Discovery | October 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18914454 | DATA STORAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, PRODUCT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18902312 | CONTROL OF NETWORK SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT AND REMEDIATION OF PROCESSING ANOMALIES | September 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18886929 | HIGH-LEVEL QUERY CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH PREFIX-BASED SEARCH FOR DATA STORES | September 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18791969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA RETRIEVAL FLOW RATE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE | August 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18772758 | K-D Tree Balanced Splitting | July 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18771021 | Hot Growing A Cloud Hosted Block Device | July 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18678189 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING STABILITY OF A DATASET | May 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18671203 | USING ATOMIC OPERATIONS TO IMPLEMENT A READ-WRITE LOCK | May 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18712096 | FILTERED PRODUCT STRUCTURE | May 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18711087 | EFFICIENT VERIFICATION OF DIFFERENTIALLY-PRIVATE DIGITAL DATA | May 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18652401 | Hierarchal Data Structure Modification | May 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18635960 | PROVIDING SUGGESTIONS FOR INTERACTION WITH AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT IN A MULTI-USER MESSAGE EXCHANGE THREAD | April 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18622023 | DATA COMPRESSION USING SORT-BASED ENCODER | March 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18605223 | HIERARCHICAL, TEMPORAL, AND POSITIONAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) | March 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18599337 | STORING A POINT IN TIME COHERENTLY FOR A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | March 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18416606 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND COMPUTING SYSTEMS FOR REORGANIZING DATA | January 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18414195 | AGGREGATED EMBEDDINGS FOR A CORPUS GRAPH | January 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18412664 | WEBSITE BUILDER WITH INTEGRATED SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION SUPPORT | January 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18390865 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION AND SEARCH USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TAXONOMY-BASED IMAGE GENERATION | December 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 18390116 | Packing Mechanism for Mitigating Collisions and Improving Efficiency for a Hash Function | December 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18481232 | GENERALIZED REVERSIBILITY FRAMEWORK FOR COMMON KNOWLEDGE IN SCALE-OUT DATABASE SYSTEMS | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18467289 | REINFORCEMENT LEARNING BASED SEARCH RESULTS | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18465936 | VOLUMETRIC VECTOR NODE AND OBJECT BASED MULTI-DIMENSIONAL OPERATING SYSTEM | September 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18229568 | FAST BATCH-STYLE LOOKUP, AGGREGATION, AND FORMULA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACE | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18342367 | MAPPING DATA-SERIALIZATION ELEMENTS BETWEEN A SOURCE AND A DESTINATION | June 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18143956 | INTELLIGENT GROUPING OF ORDER OBJECTS | May 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18139610 | Cloud Resource Risk Scenario Assessment and Remediation | April 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171439 | Automated External Data Source Interfacing | February 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18146353 | GENERATING PERSONALIZED CONTENT FOR PRESENTATION ON USER DEVICES | December 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17991430 | CROSS ROW CONSISTENT DATA ACCESSING | November 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 38 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17914913 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATION AND COORDINATION OF MEASUREMENT AND/OR CONTROL SYSTEMS | September 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17646455 | INDEX NODE ALLOCATION METHOD, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | December 2021 | March 2026 | Allow | 50 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16386343 | INTER-TABLE PARALLEL REFRESH MAXIMIZER | April 2019 | January 2020 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16270921 | SCREEN CAPTURE DATA AMALGAMATION | February 2019 | February 2021 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16195501 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION AND CLUSTERING OF PATTERNS | November 2018 | April 2021 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16130512 | ANALYZING AND CORRECTING CORRUPTION WHICH CAUSED FILESYSTEM CHECKER FAILURE SO THAT THE FILESYSTEM CHECKER WILL RUN WITHOUT ERROR | September 2018 | August 2020 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16130468 | ANALYZING AND CORRECTING CORRUPTION WHICH CAUSED FILESYSTEM CHECKER FAILURE SO THAT THE FILESYSTEM CHECKER WILL RUN WITHOUT ERROR | September 2018 | August 2020 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15974786 | VIRTUAL ACTION-BASED TROUBLESHOOTER | May 2018 | March 2021 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15888145 | Cognitive Ranking of Terms Used During a Conversation | February 2018 | August 2020 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15869874 | INTER-TABLE PARALLEL REFRESH MAXIMIZER | January 2018 | March 2020 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15837061 | Ambiguity Resolution System and Method for Security Information Retrieval | December 2017 | August 2020 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15833770 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING USER GENERATED SLIDE OBJECTS OVER A NETWORK | December 2017 | October 2018 | Abandon | 11 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15478016 | SYNCHRONIZATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS | April 2017 | May 2020 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15283091 | COOPERATIVE DECENTRALIZED REBUILD SCANNING | September 2016 | September 2017 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15281243 | INTER-TABLE PARALLEL REFRESH MAXIMIZER | September 2016 | January 2019 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15215614 | SECURE DATA MIGRATION IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK | July 2016 | April 2017 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15213343 | RETRIEVING DATA UTILIZING A DISTRIBUTED INDEX | July 2016 | March 2017 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15206619 | AUGMENTED REVIEWS WITH COGNITIVE REASONING | July 2016 | April 2020 | Allow | 45 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15206637 | INFERRING GRAPH TOPOLOGIES | July 2016 | February 2020 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15181821 | SPIRITUAL RESEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD | June 2016 | July 2017 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14967721 | MULTIMEDIA INTEGRATION DESCRIPTION SCHEME, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MPEG-7 | December 2015 | July 2016 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14962456 | Content Authoring | December 2015 | April 2019 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14841020 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING | August 2015 | May 2018 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14834050 | ENHANCING QUERIES FOR DATA TABLES WITH NESTED FIELDS | August 2015 | October 2016 | Allow | 14 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14803485 | HIERARCHICAL RANKING OF FACIAL ATTRIBUTES | July 2015 | February 2016 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14796080 | AGGREGATING MODIFICATIONS TO A DATABASE FOR JOURNAL REPLAY | July 2015 | May 2019 | Allow | 46 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14737675 | ANALYZING AND CORRECTING CORRUPTION WHICH CAUSED FILESYSTEM CHECKER FAILURE SO THAT THE FILESYSTEM CHECKER WILL RUN WITHOUT ERROR | June 2015 | May 2018 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14738070 | AGGREGATING MODIFICATIONS TO A DATABASE FOR JOURNAL REPLAY | June 2015 | May 2019 | Allow | 47 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14720810 | ATTRIBUTE CATEGORY ENHANCED SEARCH | May 2015 | January 2016 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14662029 | ATTRIBUTE CATEGORY ENHANCED SEARCH | March 2015 | January 2016 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14612856 | ENABLING TESTING OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS WITHOUT AFFECTING CUSTOMER DATA SETS SYSTEM AND METHOD | February 2015 | July 2017 | Allow | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14610082 | ANALYZING AND CORRECTING CORRUPTION WHICH CAUSED FILESYSTEM CHECKER FAILURE SO THAT THE FILESYSTEM CHECKER WILL RUN WITHOUT ERROR | January 2015 | June 2018 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14592537 | TECHNIQUES FOR ESTABLISHING A FILE SYSTEM THAT EXPOSES A VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEM FOR BACKUP OPERATIONS | January 2015 | November 2016 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14571282 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RELATED MESSAGES | December 2014 | March 2016 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14508903 | SYNCHRONIZATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS | October 2014 | May 2016 | Allow | 19 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14466882 | MEDIA CONTENT DISCOVERY AND CHARACTER ORGANIZATION TECHNIQUES | August 2014 | May 2015 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14326008 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FORENSIC MONITORING | July 2014 | September 2016 | Allow | 26 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 14281453 | HYBRID BUFFER MANAGEMENT SCHEME FOR IMMUTABLE PAGES | May 2014 | March 2017 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14280711 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING, CONNECTING AND ANALYZING DATA IN AN ONLINE COLLABORATIVE WEBPAGE | May 2014 | May 2018 | Allow | 47 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 14235151 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM | May 2014 | June 2017 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14358770 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA STORAGE | May 2014 | February 2017 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14280457 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PLAYLISTS FROM DIGITAL CONTENT EMBEDDED ON THIRD-PARTY SERVICES | May 2014 | September 2016 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14256662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCH INDEXING | April 2014 | October 2016 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14256530 | Volumetric Vector Node and Object Based Multi-Dimensional Operating System | April 2014 | January 2017 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14256198 | ENABLING TESTING OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS WITHOUT AFFECTING CUSTOMER DATA SETS SYSTEM AND METHOD | April 2014 | July 2017 | Allow | 39 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 14256541 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD | April 2014 | September 2016 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14256469 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CLIPS OF DOCUMENTS | April 2014 | November 2016 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14244753 | CONTEXT DEPENDENT RECOGNITION | April 2014 | April 2015 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14231866 | ORDERING SEARCH-ENGINE RESULTS | April 2014 | July 2014 | Allow | 3 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14225858 | TRANSLATION AND TRANSCRIPTION CONTENT CONVERSION | March 2014 | November 2014 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14192177 | SEARCH SYSTEM WITH QUERY REFINEMENT AND SEARCH METHOD | February 2014 | October 2015 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14147670 | HIERARCHICAL RANKING OF FACIAL ATTRIBUTES | January 2014 | April 2015 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13956656 | PROTECTING STORAGE DATA DURING SYSTEM MIGRATION | August 2013 | June 2017 | Allow | 46 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 13947794 | BLOB MANIPULATION IN AN INTEGRATED STRUCTURED STORAGE SYSTEM | July 2013 | June 2014 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13943352 | RETRIEVING INDEXED DATA FROM A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK | July 2013 | May 2016 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13913229 | REMOTE ENUMERATION OF A DIRECTORY | June 2013 | June 2016 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13913214 | DETERMINING WIRELESS ACCESS POINT LOCATIONS USING CLUSTERED DATA POINTS | June 2013 | February 2016 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13908516 | DATA DE-DUPLICATION IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK UTILIZING DATA CHARACTERIZATION | June 2013 | February 2014 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13854832 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ORIGINALITY OF DATA CONTENT | April 2013 | April 2014 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13833209 | Method, A System and a Computer Program Product for Scoring a Profile in Social Networking System | March 2013 | September 2015 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13833340 | SPIRITUAL RESEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD | March 2013 | April 2016 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13833334 | ENHANCING QUERIES FOR DATA TABLES WITH NESTED FIELDS | March 2013 | June 2015 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13767082 | FACE PHOTOGRAPH-BASED DATING RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM | February 2013 | June 2014 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13763200 | PERSON-BASED INFORMATION AGGREGATION | February 2013 | February 2014 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13737075 | HIERARCHICAL RANKING OF FACIAL ATTRIBUTES | January 2013 | September 2013 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13718961 | RETRIEVING DATA UTILIZING A DISTRIBUTED INDEX | December 2012 | July 2016 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 13718727 | QUERY EXPANSION CLASSIFIER FOR E-COMMERCE | December 2012 | May 2015 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13718985 | SECURE DATA MIGRATION IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK | December 2012 | July 2016 | Allow | 54 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 13649991 | MULTIMEDIA SHARING APPARATUS USING COPY OF METADATA DATABASE OF PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF | October 2012 | February 2016 | Allow | 41 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner NGUYEN, PHONG H.
With a 25.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges 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, 30.8% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.
⚠ 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 NGUYEN, PHONG H works in Art Unit 2156 and has examined 186 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 98.9%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 32 months.
Examiner NGUYEN, PHONG H's allowance rate of 98.9% places them in the 92% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by NGUYEN, PHONG H receive 2.31 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 65% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by NGUYEN, PHONG H is 32 months. This places the examiner in the 50% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a -1.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by NGUYEN, PHONG H. This interview benefit is in the 10% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 34.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 76% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 39.4% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 60% 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, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 6% 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 76.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 68% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 38.5% 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, 62.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 67% 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's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 11.8% of allowed cases (in the 95% percentile). Per MPEP § 1302.04, examiner's amendments are used to place applications in condition for allowance when only minor changes are needed. This examiner frequently uses this tool compared to other examiners, indicating a cooperative approach to getting applications allowed. Strategic Insight: If you are close to allowance but minor claim amendments are needed, this examiner may be willing to make an examiner's amendment rather than requiring another round of prosecution.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 1.1% of allowed cases (in the 62% 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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