Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898502 | COPILOT ARCHITECTURE: NETWORK OF MICROSERVICES INCLUDING SPECIALIZED MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS | September 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18800336 | DATABASE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH ARRAY FIELD DISTRIBUTION DATA | August 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18649509 | RUNTIME JOIN PRUNING TO IMPROVE JOIN PERFORMANCE FOR TABLES | April 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18581763 | CLOUD RESOURCE OPERATIONS FOR DATABASES IN MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTED CLOUD DEPLOYMENT ZONES | February 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18440624 | HEURISTIC DATABASE QUERYING WITH DYNAMIC PARTITIONING | February 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18387896 | DELTA MERGE WITH LOCATION DATA | November 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18387401 | DISPARATE SOURCING OF TREE DATA STRUCTURES FOR SEARCHING AND SUGGESTING APPLICATION SERVICES | November 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18496001 | MANAGING DATABASE PROTECTION AFTER UPDATING THE DATA MANAGER TO UTILIZE IMMUTABLE UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS | October 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18486181 | MOBILE TERMINAL-ORIENTED COMPLEX CONDITION GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION QUERY METHOD, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | October 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18480984 | Prioritizing Important Files While Restoring Protection | October 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18375658 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION WITHIN A SOFTWARE APPLICATION OR WEBSITE | October 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18478132 | INTELLIGENT RESTORATION OF FILE SYSTEMS USING DESTINATION AWARE RESTORATIONS | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18475943 | IMPLEMENTATION FOR EFFICIENT LOG STORAGE | September 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18471902 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING INTEGRITY AND PARSING OF A FILE SYSTEM AND PARSING IMPLEMENTATION | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18370393 | Boost Cache for SQL Queries with Write Order Consistency, Data Race Management, Partially Materialized Views for Range Queries, and Arbitrary Filter Expressions | September 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18451943 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING TECHNICAL INFORMATION FROM A TECHNICAL MANUAL | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18451522 | CONFIGURING CHECK CONSTRAINT AND ROW VIOLATION LOGGING USING ERROR TABLES | August 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18366312 | DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT OF FILE MODIFICATION-TIME FIELD | August 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18362898 | MATERIALIZED TABLE REFRESH USING MULTIPLE PROCESSING PIPELINES | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18358402 | RUNTIME JOIN PRUNING TO IMPROVE JOIN PERFORMANCE FOR DATABASE TABLES | July 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18357920 | TEXT SEARCHING USING PARTIAL SCORE EXPRESSIONS | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18350013 | Method for Index Structure Optimization Using Index Deduplication | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18219314 | STATE REBALANCING IN STRUCTURED STREAMING | July 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18217868 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING NATURAL LANGUAGE DATA BY USING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGE MODELS | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18325765 | MEASURING AND IMPROVING INDEX QUALITY IN A DISTRUBUTED DATA SYSTEM | May 2023 | March 2025 | Abandon | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18323767 | CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS USING OCTREE-BASED SPATIAL DATABASES | May 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18317610 | DYNAMIC WEIGHT GENERATION FOR SIGNAL SET MATCHING | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18300778 | QUERY PLAN CACHE IN DATABASE SYSTEMS | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18188083 | Database Query Generation from Natural Language Statements | March 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18118943 | EFFICIENT WORKLOAD BALANCING IN REPLICATED DATABASES BASED ON RESULT LAG COMPUTATION | March 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18158258 | INTEGRATED NATIVE VECTORIZED ENGINE FOR COMPUTATION | January 2023 | June 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18016383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING ONTOLOGIES IN SQL | January 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18154628 | Location Data Integration and Management | January 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18149752 | DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT OF FILE MODIFICATION-TIME FIELD | January 2023 | April 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18078496 | PROVIDING ACCESS TO USAGE REPORTS ON A CLOUD-BASED DATA WAREHOUSE | December 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18063098 | DYNAMIC DELIVERY OF MODIFIED USER INTERACTION ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DATA OBJECTS BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON DEFINED TRIGGER EVENTS | December 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18059125 | TRANSIENT MATERIALIZED VIEW REWRITE | November 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17992810 | SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING SEARCH BASED USER CLUSTERING | November 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 24 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057575 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DATABASE PAGINATION | November 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17978684 | Systems and Methods for Decoupling Search Processing Language and Machine Learning Analytics from Storage of Accessed Data | November 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17977843 | PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND APPLICATION RECOMMENDING METHOD THEREOF | October 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17966749 | PROCESSING TOP-K QUERIES ON DATA IN RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS | October 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17966356 | Indexing Access Limited Native Applications | October 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17907465 | METHOD FOR MONITORING RUNNING STATE OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17935766 | COORDINATOR FOR PRELOADING TIME-BASED CONTENT SELECTION GRAPHS | September 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17953038 | SECURE QUERY PROCESSING | September 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17947595 | PLATFORM AGNOSTIC QUERY ACCELERATION | September 2022 | November 2022 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17932727 | UTILIZING ARRAY FIELD DISTRIBUTION DATA IN DATABASE SYSTEMS | September 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17931590 | INCREMENTAL MAINTENANCE OF QUERY RESULTS | September 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17942035 | TWO PHASE MOVE OF DATABASE TABLES | September 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17823310 | CACHING QUERY PLANS IN DATABASE SYSTEMS | August 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17893619 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT LAMBDA FUNCTIONS | August 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17882800 | DOCUMENT ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS | August 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17816357 | CHART CREATION BASED ON A DATA PROCESSING PACKAGE | July 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17815969 | HEURISTIC DATABASE QUERYING WITH DYNAMIC PARTITIONING | July 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17865660 | LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL MAPPING FOR DEFRAGMENTATION OF HOST FILE SYSTEM IN A DATA STORAGE DEVICE | July 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17808304 | Smart Contracts for Assessing Truth on a Blockchain | June 2022 | July 2023 | Abandon | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17825549 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR OBJECT VERSION TRACKING AND READ-TIME/WRITE-TIME DATA FEDERATION | May 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17746331 | LOCATION DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM | May 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17746338 | DELTA MERGE WITH LOCATION DATA | May 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17741811 | INTENT-AWARE LEARNING FOR AUTOMATED SAMPLE SELECTION IN INTERACTIVE DATA EXPLORATION | May 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17735493 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATED OPERATIONS IN A PARALLEL PROCESSING FRAMEWORK | May 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17728975 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTELLIGENT DETECTION OF DATA MODEL FIELDNAME LINEAGE AND CONTEXT OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL DATA IN BUSINESS INTEGRATION PROCESSES | April 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17726795 | GENERATE DIGITAL SIGNATURE OF A QUERY EXECUTION PLAN USING SIMILARITY HASHING | April 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17727339 | DETERMINISTIC SEARCHING USING COMPRESSED INDEXES | April 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17722104 | EFFICIENT WORKLOAD BALANCING IN REPLICATED DATABASES BASED ON RESULT LAG COMPUTATION | April 2022 | December 2022 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17658535 | QUERY PLAN CACHING FOR NETWORKED DATABASE SYSTEMS | April 2022 | August 2022 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17685984 | Persistent Shuffle System | March 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17686167 | DATABASE GROUP MANAGEMENT | March 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17592532 | LOG DATA MANAGEMENT | February 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17586382 | STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE TABLES FOR EFFICIENT SEARCHING | January 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17558348 | PROCESSING A USER QUERY | December 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17555927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING A GEOLOCATION DATABASE | December 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17553887 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING SEARCH SYSTEM | December 2021 | October 2023 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17546594 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACHIEVING GOALS | December 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 19 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17538219 | TRANSIENT MATERIALIZED VIEW REWRITE | November 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17529483 | DATASET OVERLAP QUERY SYSTEM | November 2021 | February 2022 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17525400 | MICROSERVICE COMPONENT-BASED DATABASE SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD | November 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17509964 | Attribute Prioritized Configuration Using a Combined Configuration-Attribute Data Model | October 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17505166 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING PROGRESSION TOWARD A CUSTOMIZED GOAL | October 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17491103 | PAGINATED SYNCHRONOUS DATABASE QUERYING | September 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17489536 | INCREMENTAL VIRTUAL MACHINE METADATA EXTRACTION | September 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17487026 | PRE-MIGRATION DETECTION AND RESOLUTION OF ISSUES IN MIGRATING DATABASES SYSTEMS | September 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17449179 | DYNAMIC DELIVERY OF MODIFIED USER INTERACTION ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DATA OBJECTS BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON DEFINED TRIGGER EVENTS | September 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17483976 | REMOTE DATASOURCE-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF PROCEDURE-BASED MULTI-DATASOURCE QUERIES | September 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17482628 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS FOR USE WITH A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASE | September 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17475830 | TAGS AND PERMISSIONS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | September 2021 | July 2022 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17469576 | STAGED QUERY COMPILATION WITH COMMON DATA STRUCTURE | September 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17428835 | PROCESSING COMPLEX DATABASE QUERYS | August 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17391882 | DATABASE QUERY PLAN SELECTION | August 2021 | September 2021 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17386456 | TAGS AND PERMISSIONS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | July 2021 | July 2022 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17381059 | INTELLIGENT QUERY PLAN CACHE SIZE MANAGEMENT | July 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17372905 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DEFINING A SERVICE FOR SERVING MAP IMAGES | July 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17305387 | JOIN PATTERN AGNOSTIC AGGREGATE COMPUTATION IN DATABASE QUERY OPERATIONS | July 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17420567 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING QUERY PLANS IN A CACHE AND METHOD FOR QUERYING A DATABASE SYSTEM | July 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17363391 | Location Data Integration and Management | June 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17416705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ESTABLISHING SIMILARITY MODEL FOR RETRIEVING GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION | June 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17349790 | ADAPTIVE QUERYING OF TIME-SERIES DATA OVER TIERED STORAGE | June 2021 | May 2022 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17315460 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATOMIC PUBLICATION OF DISTRIBUTED WRITES TO A DISTRIBUTED DATA WAREHOUSE | May 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17237979 | INTEGRATED NATIVE VECTORIZED ENGINE FOR COMPUTATION | April 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J.
With a 47.4% 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, 29.5% 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 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 shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J works in Art Unit 2156 and has examined 518 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 79.7%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.
Examiner RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J's allowance rate of 79.7% places them in the 42% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J receive 2.56 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 86% 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 RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J 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.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +9.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J. This interview benefit is in the 45% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 22.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 20% 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 30.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 36% 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.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 70.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 56% 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 60.4% of appeals filed. This is in the 32% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 34.5% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 26.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 17% 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 2.3% of allowed cases (in the 79% 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 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.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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