USPTO Examiner HALM KWEKU WILLIAM - Art Unit 2166

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18737543Systems and Methods for Intelligent Database Report GenerationJune 2024April 2025Allow1110NoNo
18425415DISTRIBUTED LEDGER BASED FEATURE SET TRACKINGJanuary 2024November 2024Allow900NoNo
18416756SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT, SCALABLE, AND COST-EFFECTIVE DATA CATEGORIZATIONJanuary 2024August 2024Allow610NoNo
18537268BYTE QUEUE PARSING IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORK MESSAGING ARCHITECTUREDecember 2023July 2024Allow700NoNo
18517196DATA EXTRACTION WITH USER-CONFIGURABLE EXTRACT TEMPLATESNovember 2023November 2024Allow1210NoNo
18502398DATA LOSS PREVENTION FRAMEWORK USING CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURENovember 2023February 2025Allow1510YesNo
18501194SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER MODELING AND VISUALIZING ENTITY ATTRIBUTESNovember 2023October 2024Allow1101YesNo
18376433DETECTION OF ABNORMAL TRANSACTION LOOPSOctober 2023September 2024Allow1210YesNo
18473877Crawl AlgorithmSeptember 2023November 2024Allow1410YesNo
18446630METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INDEXLET BASED AGGREGATIONAugust 2023May 2024Allow1020NoNo
18345432ONLINE DETERMINATION OF RESULT SET SENSITIVITYJune 2023May 2024Allow1010YesNo
18329019ROW DISPERSAL ACROSS PARALLELIZED PROCESSES DURING QUERY EXECUTION BASED ON FORWARDING DATA BLOCKSJune 2023November 2024Allow1810NoNo
18141966DATA RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS AND METHODSMay 2023April 2024Allow1210NoNo
18250212Data management method and system for a security protection terminal, device and storage mediumApril 2023March 2024Allow1010NoNo
18138001Database Schema Branching Workflow, with Support for Data, Keyspaces and VSchemasApril 2023May 2024Allow1310NoNo
18295135SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DYNAMICALLY ORDERED PLAYLISTSApril 2023August 2024Allow1700NoNo
18029041METHODS AND SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED WITH A DATA INPUT PLATFORM AND DIFFERENTIAL GRAPH REPRESENTATIONSMarch 2023September 2024Allow1720YesNo
18184865Data reconciliation system and methodMarch 2023January 2025Allow2210YesNo
18117791ENTITY INTERACTION TRENDSMarch 2023March 2024Allow1210NoNo
18107975System For Enhanced Data Pre-AggregationFebruary 2023August 2024Allow1910NoNo
18162622FACILITATING MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE OF CONFIGURATIONSJanuary 2023August 2024Allow1920YesNo
18150288DEDUPLICATION OF VERSIONS OF A DATA OBJECT USING A RESOURCE PROXYJanuary 2023September 2024Allow2010NoNo
18087329NATURAL LANGUAGE INFERENCING AND DEEP LEARNING-BASED GROUPING OF UNLABELED TEXTDecember 2022August 2024Allow2010NoNo
18012460SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENTDecember 2022May 2024Allow1710NoNo
18067498UPDATE TECHNIQUES FOR MATERIALIZED VIEWS GENERATED FROM TABLES SHARED FROM EXTERNAL DATABASESDecember 2022September 2024Allow2120NoNo
18076815TRANSACTION BLOCK PROCESSING FOR CONDITIONAL COMMIT DATABASESDecember 2022May 2024Allow1710NoNo
18075014COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING FILE GENEALOGY IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM, AND FILE GENEALOGY IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMDecember 2022May 2024Allow1710NoNo
18075257SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EFFICIENT CODING AND DECODING OF CONTACT MATRICESDecember 2022May 2024Allow1710NoNo
18074198Systems and Methods for Intelligent Database Report GenerationDecember 2022March 2024Allow1520YesNo
17987748Database Schema Branching Workflow, with Support for Data, Keyspaces and VSchemasNovember 2022February 2023Allow300YesNo
17918922PERFORMANCE ADJUSTING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILE SYSTEM ARCHITECTUREOctober 2022March 2024Allow1710YesNo
17918717Meta-Analysis Methods for Multi-Therapeutic Context-Specific DomainsOctober 2022April 2024Allow1910NoNo
17917748INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAMOctober 2022September 2024Allow2320YesNo
17917736A DEVICE, A METHOD OF PERFORMING A FILE TRANSACTION, AND A METHOD OF PERFORMING AN ACCESS OPERATIONOctober 2022April 2024Allow1810NoNo
17955714Statistical Join Methods for Data ManagementSeptember 2022November 2023Allow1410NoNo
17936753SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CORRECTING CATEGORIES OF ITEMSSeptember 2022March 2024Allow1810YesNo
17953325ONLINE SEARCH METHOD AND DEVICE ACCOUNTING FOR RELEVANCE AND DIFFERENCESeptember 2022February 2024Allow1710NoNo
17953048GENERATING AND USING A SEMANTIC INDEXSeptember 2022January 2024Allow1610NoNo
17932140JOIN ELIMINATIONSeptember 2022March 2024Allow1840NoNo
17823224METHOD OF PROCESSING EVENT DATA, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUMAugust 2022June 2024Abandon2110NoNo
17893470INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2022January 2024Allow1710NoNo
17886383EXECUTING DATABASE QUERIES FOR JOINING TABLES USING CHANNEL BASED FLOW CONTROLAugust 2022May 2024Allow2110NoNo
17811543SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FUZZY SEARCH WITHOUT FULL TEXTJuly 2022October 2023Allow1510NoNo
17854844AUTOMATED QUERY MODIFICATION USING GRAPHICAL QUERY REPRESENTATIONSJune 2022August 2024Allow2520YesNo
17853086ONTOLOGY CUSTOMIZATION FOR INDEXING DIGITAL CONTENTJune 2022June 2024Allow2320YesNo
17845982SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGE ACCESSJune 2022February 2024Allow2020YesNo
17837931System and Method for Automated Determination of Search Query Parameters for Anomaly DetectionJune 2022January 2024Allow1910YesNo
17825919Methods and Systems to Process Asynchronous Transactions at a Management SystemMay 2022April 2024Allow2320YesNo
17741727SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE RECOVERY OF APPLICATION GROUP IN CONTAINER DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENTSMay 2022February 2024Allow2110NoNo
17732223Cost Effective Storage ManagementApril 2022September 2024Allow2840YesNo
17659615RECORD MANAGEMENT FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS USING FUZZY FIELD MATCHINGApril 2022January 2024Allow2110NoNo
17659448DATA MIGRATION METHOD AND APPARATUSApril 2022November 2023Allow1910NoNo
17721295INFORMATION DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2022January 2024Allow2110YesNo
17707884Database Schema Branching Workflow, with Support for Data, Keyspaces and VSchemasMarch 2022October 2022Allow710NoNo
17762638DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMMarch 2022May 2024Allow2610NoNo
17641911DATA VISUALIZATION DEVICE AND METHODMarch 2022July 2024Allow2820YesNo
17675511BLOCK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DATA QUERY METHOD AND APPARATUSFebruary 2022September 2024Allow3110YesNo
17674313SCHEDULING OF QUERY PIPELINE EXECUTIONFebruary 2022October 2023Allow2010YesNo
17578031GRAPH RECLUSTERING BASED ON DIFFERENT CLUSTERING CRITERIAJanuary 2022February 2024Allow2530YesNo
17647402ENHANCING DATABASE QUERY PROCESSINGJanuary 2022December 2023Allow2320YesNo
17566411METHOD FOR BLOCK CONSENSUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TRANSACTION STATEDecember 2021April 2024Allow2810NoNo
17644793SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION RECOMMENDATIONDecember 2021January 2024Allow2520YesNo
17529898DISTRIBUTED QUERIES THROUGH DYNAMIC VIEWSNovember 2021March 2024Allow2810NoNo
17529890DATA AGGREGATION AND PRE-POSITIONING FOR MULTI-STORE QUERIESNovember 2021September 2023Allow2210NoNo
17522504Late Materialization of Queried Data in Database CacheNovember 2021June 2024Allow3140YesNo
17451704Data Fetch EngineOctober 2021March 2023Allow1720YesNo
17461477SMART SCAN HASH JOIN OPTIMIZATIONAugust 2021May 2022Allow820YesNo
17392409DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOFAugust 2021February 2024Allow3110NoNo
17385219DATA MIGRATION BY QUERY CO-EVALUATIONJuly 2021January 2025Allow4130NoNo
17443049Immutable Object Handling in High-Performance Network Messaging ArchitectureJuly 2021October 2023Allow2710YesNo
17443027Message Object Traversal In High-Performance Network Messaging ArchitectureJuly 2021July 2023Allow2400NoNo
17379269Memory Pooling in High-Performance Network Messaging ArchitectureJuly 2021October 2023Allow2710NoNo
17376235UPDATING SHARED AND INDEPENDENT MATERIALIZED VIEWS IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENTJuly 2021September 2023Allow2710NoNo
17349813TECHNIQUES FOR A DETERMINISTIC DISTRIBUTED CACHE TO ACCELERATE SQL QUERIESJune 2021June 2024Allow3620YesNo
17341909Statistical Join Methods for Data ManagementJune 2021August 2022Allow1510NoNo
17332974STORAGE OF TREE DATA STRUCTURESMay 2021February 2023Allow2120YesNo
17323867INDEX-BASED, ADAPTIVE JOIN SIZE ESTIMATIONMay 2021September 2023Allow2810NoNo
17315451SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATOMIC PUBLICATION OF DISTRIBUTED WRITES TO A DISTRIBUTED DATA WAREHOUSEMay 2021August 2023Allow2840YesNo
17308175SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING DATASETSMay 2021September 2023Allow2840YesNo
17290543SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPECIFYING OLAP CUBE AT QUERY TIMEApril 2021November 2023Allow3030YesYes
17217400SEARCH QUERY MODIFICATION DATABASEMarch 2021July 2023Allow2710NoNo
17214298QUERY REWRITE USING MATERIALIZED VIEWS WITH LOGICAL PARTITION CHANGE TRACKINGMarch 2021March 2023Abandon2320NoNo
17213034JOIN-BASED CONTAINMENT FOR SET OPERATION-BASED SUBQUERY REMOVALMarch 2021March 2023Allow2320YesNo
17278546SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING COMPUTING EFFICIENCY, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING A DATA BASE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERYING A DATA BASE AND DATABASEMarch 2021May 2022Allow1410NoNo
17201927CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR MAILBOX IDENTITY MIGRATIONMarch 2021August 2023Allow2920YesNo
17266080HASH MULTI-TABLE JOIN IMPLEMENTATION METHOD BASED ON GROUPING VECTORFebruary 2021August 2023Allow3020YesNo
17160275System and Method for Managing Regulatory InformationJanuary 2021December 2022Allow2220NoNo
17134624APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING AHO-CORASICK AUTOMATA FOR DETECTING REGULAR EXPRESSION PATTERNDecember 2020June 2022Allow1810NoNo
17135289DATA EXTRACTION WITH USER-CONFIGURABLE EXTRACT TEMPLATESDecember 2020July 2023Allow3120NoNo
17255114DEFICIENT CAPABILITY EXTRACTION DEVICEDecember 2020October 2022Abandon2210NoNo
17122422SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA INGESTION AND WORKFLOW GENERATIONDecember 2020June 2024Abandon4240YesNo
17115696METHOD TO IMPROVE GLOBAL QUERY PERFORMANCE IN AN EDGE NETWORKDecember 2020May 2023Allow2930YesNo
17111930INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SUPPORT DEVICE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SUPPORT METHOD, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SUPPORT PROGRAMDecember 2020September 2022Abandon2110NoNo
17105919MULTI-WIRE PROTOCOL AND MULTI-DIALECT DATABASE ENGINE FOR DATABASE COMPATABILITYNovember 2020May 2023Allow2910NoNo
17096082METHOD FOR GENERATING VIEWS BASED ON A SEMANTIC MODEL, THAT ALLOWS FOR AUTONOMOUS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS AND COMPLEX CALCULATIONSNovember 2020September 2022Allow2210YesNo
17085521DISTRIBUTED JOIN OPERATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2020July 2021Allow920YesNo
17080700EFFICIENT COMPILATION OF GRAPH QUERIES INCLUDING COMPLEX EXPRESSIONS ON TOP OF SQL BASED RELATIONAL ENGINEOctober 2020September 2023Allow3530YesNo
17074236PARALLEL BRANCH OPERATION USING INTERMEDIARY NODESOctober 2020February 2023Allow2830YesNo
17068341FIELD INHERITANCE REMOVAL SYSTEMOctober 2020July 2022Allow2110NoNo
16948940MATERIALIZED VIEWS FOR DATABASE QUERY OPTIMIZATIONOctober 2020September 2022Abandon2320NoNo

Appeals Overview

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

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
3
Examiner Affirmed
3
(100.0%)
Examiner Reversed
0
(0.0%)
Reversal Percentile
4.3%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 0.0% 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
13
Allowed After Appeal Filing
4
(30.8%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
9
(69.2%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
44.2%
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, 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.

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 HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM works in Art Unit 2166 and has examined 231 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.1%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM's allowance rate of 83.1% places them in the 51% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM receive 2.39 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 82% 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 HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 40% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +12.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM. This interview benefit is in the 51% 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, 29.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 44% 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 28.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 32% 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, 109.1% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 77% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. Before filing a full appeal brief, strongly consider requesting a PAC. The PAC provides an opportunity for the examiner and supervisory personnel to reconsider the rejection before the case proceeds to the PTAB.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 76.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 64% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 70.0% 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 8.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 6% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 10% 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 11% 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.
  • Request pre-appeal conferences: PACs are highly effective with this examiner. Before filing a full appeal brief, request a PAC to potentially resolve issues without full PTAB review.

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.

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