Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605550 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POPULATING A STRUCTURED DATABASE BASED ON AN IMAGE REPRESENTATION OF A DATA TABLE | March 2024 | May 2025 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18469428 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED DATA DISCOVERY | September 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18458102 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROACTIVELY PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A USER OF A COMPUTING DEVICE | August 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18455774 | Just-In-Time Injection In A Distributed Database | August 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18453758 | REAL-TIME PERSONALIZED SUGGESTIONS FOR COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS | August 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18231990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICACY OF A DATA ELEMENT WITHIN A NEURAL NETWORK | August 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18229621 | FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | August 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18347406 | Optimization of Parameter Values for Machine-Learned Models | July 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18347386 | Optimization of Parameters of a System, Product, or Process | July 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18347499 | Providing Rich, Qualified Search Results with Messaging Between Buyers and Sellers | July 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18340036 | UNIVERSAL FILE VIRTUALIZATION WITH DISAGGREGATED CONTROL PLANE, SECURITY PLANE AND DECENTRALIZED DATA PLANE | June 2023 | September 2024 | Abandon | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18322505 | DATA AGGREGATION SYSTEM | May 2023 | February 2025 | Abandon | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199902 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONIZING HANDWRITING | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18162709 | SECURE ENCRYPTED IDENTIFIER DATA SHARING | January 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 23 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18157185 | Correcting Misspelled User Queries of in-Application Searches | January 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18155858 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED CONTENT MANAGEMENT INTEROPERABILITY SERVICES INTERFACES AND REPOSITORY INTEGRATION | January 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18154591 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR BLOCKCHAIN ASSET RANKING | January 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18068981 | System and Method for Providing Enhanced Recommendations Based on Third-Party Opinions | December 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 25 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18075122 | LOCK RELEASE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH A KEY-VALUE DATABASE SYSTEM | December 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18071790 | ELASTIC, EPHEMERAL IN-LINE DEDUPLICATION SERVICE | November 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17989160 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD | November 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17987961 | VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR ETL TRANSFORMATIONS | November 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17988654 | INDICATION OF TRENDS IN A DOCUMENT SET | November 2022 | January 2025 | Abandon | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17987697 | METHOD FOR FAST AND EFFICIENT COMPUTING OF TREE FORM-FACTORS | November 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17922311 | MESH NETWORK SYSTEM OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING DEVICES | October 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17958127 | EXPERIMENT ARCHITECT | September 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17953676 | CREATING A TRANSACTIONAL CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT COPY OF A SQL SERVER CONTAINER IN KUBERNETES | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17935757 | CHAN FRAMEWORK, CHAN CODING AND CHAN CODE | September 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17933372 | GENERATING SCALABILITY SCORES FOR TENANTS USING PERFORMANCE METRICS | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17942690 | State Based GUI for Cloud Data Management | September 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17810312 | HANDSHAKE PROTOCOL FOR EFFICIENT EXCHANGE OF TRANSACTIONAL INFORMATION FOR A HYBRID TRANSACTIONAL AND ANALYTICAL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE | June 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17834766 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MODULATE METRIC VALUES OF THE RELIABILITY METRICS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS BASED UPON RECEIPT OF RELIABILITY FEEDBACK | June 2022 | March 2024 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17664135 | SECURE MULTI-PARTY ENCRYPTED IDENTIFIER DATA SHARING | May 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 31 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17589922 | ACHIEVEMENT BASED RATING SYSTEM AND METHODS WITH A DYNAMIC TAXONOMY | February 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17579086 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING INTERACTION VECTORS WITHIN A MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17576698 | TRANSACTION LOG INDEX GENERATION IN AN ENTERPRISE BACKUP SYSTEM | January 2022 | September 2023 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17537669 | BUFFER POOL RESOURCE ALLOCATION | November 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17513792 | DATA AGGREGATION SYSTEM | October 2021 | September 2023 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17477801 | PROBLEM SOLVING IN A DATABASE | September 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17476213 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONFIRM REPLICATION DATA ACCURACY FOR DATA BACKUP IN DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS | September 2021 | December 2023 | Abandon | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17390938 | SECURE MULTI-PARTY ENCRYPTED IDENTIFIER DATA SHARING | July 2021 | March 2022 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17239572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS IN A DENTAL OFFICE | July 2021 | March 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17370650 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED DATA DISCOVERY | July 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 23 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17305481 | PROVIDING WEB APPLICATION COMPONENTS WITHIN REMOTE SYSTEMS | July 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17318302 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | May 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17289393 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FILE AND FOR OBTAINING PAGE RESOURCE | April 2021 | February 2025 | Abandon | 46 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17301751 | UNIVERSAL TAPE-DATA BACKUP AND RESTORE SYSTEM | April 2021 | November 2023 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17226646 | Just-In-Time Injection In A Distributed Database | April 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17216072 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING INTERACTION VECTORS WITHIN A MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM | March 2021 | October 2021 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17274467 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT WITH REGION-BASED METADATA INDEXING | March 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 47 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17195261 | TRANSFORMER FOR ENCODING TEXT FOR USE IN RANKING ONLINE JOB POSTINGS | March 2021 | April 2025 | Abandon | 50 | 3 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17183441 | ARTIFACT DEPLOYMENT FOR APPLICATION MANAGED SERVICE INSTANCES | February 2021 | December 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17174265 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROACTIVELY PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A USER OF A COMPUTING DEVICE | February 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 29 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17173039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING AND VERIFYING A DATA SET USING A TREE-BASED DATA STRUCTURE | February 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17144320 | TAG COEXISTENCE DETECTION | January 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17135406 | FACILITATING ANSWERING QUESTIONS INVOLVING REASONING OVER QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION | December 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17122349 | Graphical User Interface for Searching on a Network Pattern | December 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17252290 | SECRET JOINING SYSTEM, METHOD, SECRET CALCULATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM | December 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17081617 | MAPPING DATA RESOURCES TO REQUESTED TEACHING OBJECTIVES | October 2020 | May 2024 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17080302 | METHOD FOR PERMUTING DIMENSIONS OF A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TENSOR | October 2020 | May 2025 | Allow | 55 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17069773 | INTEGRATING OBJECT-BASED DATA INTEGRATION TOOL WITH A VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM IN CENTRALIZED AND DECENTRALIZED ENVIRONMENTS | October 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16935436 | SNAPSHOT MANAGEMENT IN DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS | July 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16931074 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POPULATING A STRUCTURED DATABASE BASED ON AN IMAGE REPRESENTATION OF A DATA TABLE | July 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16912168 | LOCK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH A KEY-VALUE DATABASE SYSTEM | June 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16902722 | APPLICATION-BASED DATA TYPE SELECTION | June 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16900665 | CROWD SOURCED DATABASE SYSTEM | June 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16888029 | Global Address Parser | May 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16880965 | UPGRADING REPLICATED DATABASES WITH SMALL DOWNTIME | May 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16879096 | DATA MASKING IN A MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE | May 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 51 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 15930823 | STORAGE OF MEASUREMENT DATASETS AND DISTRIBUTED DATABASES | May 2020 | December 2024 | Abandon | 55 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16870338 | CURRENT MONITORING IN HYPERSCALER ENVIRONMENT | May 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 35 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16865395 | Cognitive Method to Perceive Storages for Hybrid Cloud Management | May 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16854102 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING FACETS USING GRAPH PARTITIONING | April 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16850423 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED STANDARDIZATION OF HETEROGENEOUS DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING | April 2020 | September 2024 | Allow | 53 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16829311 | REPLICATING CHANGES FROM A DATABASE TO A DESTINATION AND MODIFYING REPLICATION CAPACITY | March 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16816778 | DATA VALIDATION USING ENCODE VALUES | March 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16807636 | ELASTIC, EPHEMERAL IN-LINE DEDUPLICATION SERVICE | March 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16798647 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR PRESENTING RELATED MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS | February 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 40 | 6 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16793856 | Performing Data Mining Operations Within a Columnar Database Management System | February 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16790972 | ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE WITH HUMAN MATCHMAKING | February 2020 | December 2021 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16776450 | MAINTAINING ANONYMITY OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS WHILE PROVIDING USEFUL SURVEY DATA | January 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16746685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THIRD-PARTY OPINIONS | January 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16734277 | UNINTERRUPTED FILE LEVEL BACKUP OPERATION USING A VIRTUAL OBJECT FILE QUEUE | January 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16723772 | UNIVERSAL FILE VIRTUALIZATION WITH DISAGGREGATED CONTROL PLANE, SECURITY PLANE AND DECENTRALIZED DATA PLANE | December 2019 | March 2023 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16713722 | AUTOMATIC IO STREAM TIMING DETERMINATION IN LIVE IMAGES | December 2019 | July 2023 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16698633 | TRAINING AND IMPLEMENTING AN AUDIT GENERATION MODEL | November 2019 | March 2024 | Abandon | 51 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16696055 | Multi-channel data aggregation system and method for communicating animal breed, medical and profile information among remote user networks | November 2019 | October 2022 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16615303 | Optimization of Parameter Values for Machine-Learned Models | November 2019 | April 2023 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16687108 | ADJUSTING AN ENTITY GRAPH BASED ON ENTITY RELATIONSHIP STRENGTH | November 2019 | October 2021 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16663528 | Data Science Platform | October 2019 | April 2023 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16659968 | DIGITAL ASSISTANT PLATFORM | October 2019 | May 2021 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16655193 | CHAINCODE RECOMMENDATION BASED ON EXISTING CHAINCODE | October 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16597903 | System and Method for Processing a Database Query | October 2019 | August 2023 | Abandon | 46 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16596381 | REPLICATION USING DEDUPLICATED SECONDARY COPY DATA | October 2019 | March 2022 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16582027 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY BACKING UP LARGE DATASETS | September 2019 | July 2023 | Allow | 46 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16495295 | Optimization of Parameters of a System, Product, or Process | September 2019 | April 2023 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16563389 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTO LIVE-MOUNTING DATABASE GOLDEN COPIES | September 2019 | July 2022 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16563406 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING LIVE DATABASE DATA ACROSS HYBRID STORAGE | September 2019 | July 2023 | Allow | 46 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16562190 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LIVE-MOUNTING DATABASE BACKUPS | September 2019 | October 2022 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16554387 | DYNAMIC CUSTOMIZATION OF CONTENT PROGRAMS | August 2019 | April 2021 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner HOANG, KEN.
With a 40.0% 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, 47.8% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner HOANG, KEN works in Art Unit 2168 and has examined 388 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 76.0%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 35 months.
Examiner HOANG, KEN's allowance rate of 76.0% places them in the 34% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by HOANG, KEN receive 2.57 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 87% 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 HOANG, KEN is 35 months. This places the examiner in the 20% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +28.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by HOANG, KEN. This interview benefit is in the 80% 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, 26.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 32% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 30.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 37% 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, 93.3% 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 68% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 40.0% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 31.1% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 23% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 60% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).
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.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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