USPTO Examiner SPIELER WILLIAM - Art Unit 2159

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18962573SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING EVENTS WITHIN VIDEO CONTENT USING INTELLIGENT SEARCH QUERYNovember 2024February 2026Allow1400YesNo
18934354STAGED RESOURCE QUERYINGNovember 2024July 2025Allow800NoNo
18924882METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES FOR DETERMINING RESPONSE MESSAGEOctober 2024February 2026Allow1510NoNo
18896652METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RENAMING FILE SYSTEM OBJECTSSeptember 2024February 2026Allow1710NoNo
18809178NESTED DISCOVERY AND DELETION OF RESOURCESAugust 2024June 2025Allow1000YesNo
18809141DOMAIN-FOCUSED NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTION AND ANSWERAugust 2024February 2026Allow1820YesNo
18787034Future Transaction ProcessingJuly 2024January 2026Allow1810YesNo
18762401QUERY ENGINE FOR GRAPH DATABASES AND HETEROGENEOUS HARDWAREJuly 2024December 2025Allow1810NoNo
18756014DATABASE SYSTEM UPDATE METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUSJune 2024July 2025Allow1210NoNo
18635707DURABLE FUNCTIONS IN DATABASE SYSTEMSApril 2024August 2025Allow1610YesNo
18625811SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPID DATA ANALYSISApril 2024November 2025Abandon1910NoNo
18622364METHODS FOR STRATIFIED SAMPLING-BASED QUERY EXECUTIONMarch 2024August 2025Abandon1710NoNo
18616092HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM USING DIFFERENT TYPES OF STORAGE MEDIUMSMarch 2024June 2025Allow1510YesNo
18594140SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATION OF NETWORK COMPONENTS COMPLYING WITH HL7March 2024December 2025Abandon2210NoNo
18594794SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING AND COMBINING XML FILES OF AN XFA DOCUMENTMarch 2024June 2025Allow1610NoNo
18439227CONTEXTUAL SEARCH USING DATABASE INDEXESFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310NoNo
18431816Integrative Configuration For Bot Behavior And Database BehaviorFebruary 2024November 2024Allow910NoNo
18431812Integrative Configuration For Bot Behavior And Database BehaviorFebruary 2024January 2025Allow1220YesNo
18418458SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING, VALIDATING, CORRECTING, AND LOADING DATA FEEDS BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INPUTJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210NoNo
18405744SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING COMPILED USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS IN VECTORIZED DATABASESJanuary 2024June 2025Abandon1820NoNo
18520507Mirrored QueuesNovember 2023April 2025Allow1710YesNo
18511947LOG-BASED DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENTNovember 2023February 2026Allow2730YesNo
18503523PROCESSING QUERIES ON RESTRICTED VIEWSNovember 2023April 2025Allow1720NoNo
18500610SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING AND COMBINING XML FILES OF AN XFA DOCUMENTNovember 2023January 2024Allow200NoNo
18496210SCHEDULING BACKUPS ON A PRIMARY DATABASE IN A HIGH-AVAILABILITY CONFIGURATIONOctober 2023March 2025Allow1720YesNo
18490730LOST WRITE RESPONSESOctober 2023July 2025Allow2120NoNo
18381337COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED MANIPULATION OF DATA STRUCTURESOctober 2023February 2026Allow2840YesYes
18488179VALIDATION OF CONTAINER IMAGESOctober 2023April 2025Allow1820YesNo
18379684FAILOVER OF DATABASE SESSIONS TO A LOGICAL REPLICA DATABASEOctober 2023September 2024Allow1100NoNo
18472675ORCHESTRATING PER-SLICE PER-CONTAINER BACKUP SESSIONS FOR EFFICIENT RESOURCE USAGESeptember 2023January 2025Allow1610NoNo
18472108DISTRIBUTED LEDGER SYSTEM AND METHODSeptember 2023June 2025Abandon2120YesNo
18282635METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING TASKSSeptember 2023March 2025Allow1820NoNo
18468541MACHINE LEARNED ENTITY ACTION MODELS FOR CENTRALIZED DATABASE PREDICTIONSSeptember 2023December 2025Abandon2730YesNo
18461702SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GENERATE SUGGESTIONS BASED ON DYNAMIC BANNER DATASeptember 2023January 2026Allow2830YesYes
18461687SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GENERATE SUGGESTIONS BASED ON DYNAMIC NOTIFICATION DATASeptember 2023January 2026Allow2830YesYes
18232482TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSITIONING DATABASE TABLES FROM PRODUCTION TO NON-PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTSAugust 2023August 2025Abandon2530NoNo
18447231HIERARCHICAL OBJECT TAGGING FRAMEWORKAugust 2023October 2024Allow1410YesNo
18230536CONVERSION AND DISPLAY OF A USER INPUTAugust 2023December 2024Abandon1610NoNo
18365888SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING REPLICA PLACEMENT IN MULTI-REGION DATABASESAugust 2023July 2025Allow2320NoNo
18361563DATA INSIGHTS USING CONTEXT DRIVEN LATERAL AIJuly 2023July 2025Abandon2430YesNo
18359790MACHINE-LEARNING SYSTEM FOR SERVICING QUERIES FOR DIGITAL CONTENTJuly 2023October 2024Allow1410NoNo
18358680SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION AND VISUALIZATION OF DATABASE OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS AND THEIR IMPACT ON STORAGE COSTSJuly 2023January 2026Abandon3040YesNo
18357592Indexing Native Application DataJuly 2023December 2024Abandon1710YesNo
18342455DATABASE SCHEMA TO SIMPLIFY PROCESSING AND REDUCE FALSE POSITIVE MATCHES IN AMBIGUOUS DATAJune 2023November 2024Allow1610YesNo
18339834REPLICATION USING SHARED CONTENT MAPPINGSJune 2023March 2025Allow2120YesNo
18211190QUERY OPTIMIZER-READABLE OBJECTS FACILITATING DATA SOURCE SWITCHINGJune 2023August 2024Allow1410YesNo
18334420EDGE DEVICE FACILITY TO SELECTIVELY LOCATE MISSING CHAT MESSAGESJune 2023September 2024Allow1510YesNo
18201869INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SELECTION SUPPORTING METHODMay 2023May 2025Abandon2330YesNo
18323200GENERATION OF VIEWS WITH RESTRICTIONS ON USEMay 2023October 2023Allow510NoNo
18321943AUTOMATED INTERACTIVE CONTENT EQUIVALENCEMay 2023March 2025Allow2230YesNo
18313918DATA STRUCTURE FOR PHYSICAL LAYER ENCAPSULATIONMay 2023August 2024Allow1510NoNo
18312820AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF DATA FROM WEB PAGESMay 2023January 2025Allow2040YesNo
18306076SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING FOR EVENTS WITHIN VIDEO CONTENTApril 2023August 2024Allow1610NoNo
18124683IDENTIFICATION RESOLUTION IN DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHSMarch 2023August 2024Allow1600NoNo
18122732INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODMarch 2023February 2025Abandon2320YesNo
18182522Database SyncingMarch 2023August 2024Allow1720YesNo
18117319MACHINE LEARNING OUTPUT SAMPLING FOR A DATA INTAKE AND QUERY SYSTEMMarch 2023January 2025Abandon2220YesNo
18024580METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECORDING EVENT DATA IN A VEHICLEMarch 2023June 2025Allow2700YesNo
18115812INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODMarch 2023February 2025Abandon2420YesNo
18115705SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POINT-IN-TIME REVISIONING FOR DATABASESFebruary 2023August 2025Abandon3030NoNo
18112926SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING EVENTS WITHIN VIDEO CONTENT USING INTELLIGENT SEARCH QUERYFebruary 2023August 2024Allow1820YesNo
18095936NEAR-MEMORY ACCELERATION FOR DATABASE OPERATIONSJanuary 2023January 2024Allow1210YesNo
18091493METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CLIENT COMPUTER DEVICE WITH ACCESS TO A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMDecember 2022February 2025Abandon2620NoNo
18060543SEARCH RESULT DISPLAY METHOD, READABLE MEDIUM, AND TERMINAL DEVICENovember 2022November 2023Allow1220NoNo
17987130AUTOMATIC ERROR RECOVERY FOR PARSERNovember 2022March 2025Allow2830YesNo
17960694PARAMETER-EFFICIENT METHOD FOR TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKSOctober 2022July 2025Allow3300NoNo
17949965NESTED DISCOVERY AND DELETION OF RESOURCESSeptember 2022April 2024Allow1910YesNo
17905260TRAINING OF DIFFERENTIABLE RENDERER AND NEURAL NETWORK FOR QUERY OF 3D MODEL DATABASEAugust 2022July 2023Allow1100NoNo
17896385Mirrored QueuesAugust 2022July 2023Allow1110NoNo
17896613Dynamic Inclusion of Metadata Configurations into a Logical ModelAugust 2022June 2024Allow2220YesNo
17892472Content-Item RecommendationsAugust 2022March 2024Allow1910NoNo
17891793METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTENT-DRIVEN SEARCHINGAugust 2022January 2026Allow4130YesYes
17887810QUERY ENTITY-EXPERIENCE CLASSIFICATIONAugust 2022July 2024Abandon2320YesNo
17759725Bayesian Bits Joint Mixed-Precision Quantization And Structured Pruning Using Decomposed Quantization And Bayesian GatesJuly 2022June 2025Allow3400NoNo
17815369DETECTING CHAINS OF FUNCTIONS THAT VIOLATE A CONSTRAINTJuly 2022October 2023Allow1510NoNo
17873906SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING COMPILED USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS IN VECTORIZED DATABASESJuly 2022October 2023Allow1510NoNo
17865909MATERIALIZED VIEWS AS A SERVICE FOR ANALYTICSJuly 2022October 2023Allow1510NoNo
17812656USER RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH ONLINE PHOTO MANAGEMENT SERVICEJuly 2022July 2024Abandon2420YesNo
17861579FUTURE TRANSACTION PROCESSINGJuly 2022April 2024Allow2120YesNo
17855629QUERY LANGUAGE FOR METRIC DATAJune 2022December 2023Allow1710NoNo
17810336DATABASE TABLE WITH A MINIMUM-MAXIMUM FILTER FOR MULTIPLE RANGESJune 2022May 2023Allow1000NoNo
17809646System and Method for Tagging DataJune 2022July 2023Allow1310NoNo
17805676STORED PROCEDURES FOR INCREMENTAL UPDATES TO INTERNAL TABLES FOR MATERIALIZED VIEWSJune 2022July 2023Allow1410NoNo
17833180CLUSTERING SUGGESTIONS FOR PARTIAL QUERY AUTO-COMPLETIONJune 2022March 2024Allow2120YesNo
17825402SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPID DATA ANALYSISMay 2022February 2024Allow2120YesNo
17748059COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, ENCODING DEVICE, INDEX GENERATING DEVICE, SEARCH DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, INDEX GENERATING METHOD, AND SEARCH METHODMay 2022March 2024Abandon2220NoNo
17748417CONTEXTUALIZED TIME SERIES DATABASE AND/OR MULTI-TENANT SERVER SYSTEM DEPLOYMENTMay 2022December 2025Abandon4260YesNo
17747579METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING DYNAMIC FIXED-POINT DATA REPRESENTATIONSMay 2022December 2025Abandon4210NoNo
17746326DATABASE LOCK MANAGEMENT WITH CACHE-OPTIMIZED HASH TABLEMay 2022April 2023Allow1110NoNo
17745869PATENT CLAIM SCOPE EVALUATORMay 2022December 2025Abandon4330YesYes
17722218LOG-BASED DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENTApril 2022August 2023Allow1610NoNo
17711538METHOD FOR LINE UP CONTENTS OF MEDIA EQUIPMENT, AND APPARATUS THEREOFApril 2022December 2024Allow3260YesNo
17703743REQUEST COST INDEX FOR THROTTLING REQUESTS TO EXECUTE OPERATIONS IN A MULTI-TENANT PROVIDER NETWORKMarch 2022August 2024Allow2940YesYes
17700762METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MIGRATING DATA BETWEEN SYSTEMS WITHOUT DOWNTIMEMarch 2022November 2023Allow1920NoNo
17701185DATABASE CHANGE CAPTURE WITH TRANSACTION-CONSISTENT ORDERMarch 2022April 2023Allow1310NoNo
17687591STRUCTURING AND PRESENTING EVENT DATA FOR USE WITH WEARABLE MULTIMEDIA DEVICESMarch 2022March 2023Allow1220YesNo
17680561SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING, VALIDATING, CORRECTING, AND LOADING DATA FEEDS BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INPUTFebruary 2022December 2023Allow2110YesNo
17680333INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMFebruary 2022August 2024Abandon2920NoNo
17679910DURABLE FUNCTIONS IN DATABASE SYSTEMSFebruary 2022December 2023Allow2210NoNo
17679781SYSTEM, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUMFebruary 2022July 2025Abandon4140YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SPIELER, WILLIAM.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
32
Examiner Affirmed
28
(87.5%)
Examiner Reversed
4
(12.5%)
Reversal Percentile
24.8%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 12.5% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
90
Allowed After Appeal Filing
17
(18.9%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
73
(81.1%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
23.4%
Lower 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, 18.9% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.

Strategic Recommendations

⚠ 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 SPIELER, WILLIAM - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner SPIELER, WILLIAM works in Art Unit 2159 and has examined 921 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 77.3%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 32 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner SPIELER, WILLIAM's allowance rate of 77.3% 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 SPIELER, WILLIAM receive 2.40 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 69% 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 SPIELER, WILLIAM is 32 months. This places the examiner in the 50% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +8.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SPIELER, WILLIAM. This interview benefit is in the 38% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 24.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 36% 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 34.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 52% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 63.4% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 51% 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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 65.2% of appeals filed. This is in the 46% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 45.0% 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, 56.8% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 59% 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 3.9% of allowed cases (in the 83% 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 3.4% of allowed cases (in the 75% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • Examiner cooperation: This examiner frequently makes examiner's amendments to place applications in condition for allowance. If you are close to allowance, the examiner may help finalize the claims.

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.

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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.