USPTO Examiner KHONG ALEXANDER - Art Unit 2168

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19094850System and Method for Generating Thoughts with Large Language Models Using CodewordsMarch 2025October 2025Allow610NoNo
19031918Techniques for Providing an Upgraded Content ExperienceJanuary 2025March 2026Allow1410YesNo
19025761DATA LINEAGE BASED MULTI-DATA STORE RECOVERYJanuary 2025December 2025Allow1110NoNo
19019725METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EFFICIENT METADATA ANALYTICS IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMJanuary 2025October 2025Allow1000NoNo
19004302Design Strategies to Prevent Data Hallucination in Large Language Models for the Medical FieldDecember 2024March 2026Abandon1510NoNo
18979191DATA SEARCH AND ANALYSIS FOR DATA SYSTEMSDecember 2024January 2026Allow1310NoNo
18977258EFFICIENT SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISMS FOR GRAPH DATABASESDecember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18873692DATABASE SYSTEM, AND PRIMARY DATABASE ELECTION METHODS AND APPARATUSESDecember 2024February 2026Allow1410NoNo
18963094AUTOMATIC DATA RETRIEVAL AND SYNCHRONIZATION BASED ON CRAWLING AND INDEXING PRIVATE API DATANovember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18961285Method and computer program product for detecting and preventing successful attacks at endpoints in a Validation Architecture systemNovember 2024March 2025Allow410NoNo
18866909PLAN EXECUTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASENovember 2024September 2025Allow1000YesNo
18937780SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF DATANovember 2024October 2025Allow1110NoNo
18929913METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REPLICATING DATAOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18902195QUERY-EXECUTION PLANNING USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGSeptember 2024November 2025Allow1410YesNo
18823366SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CROSS-SECTIONAL SCALINGSeptember 2024December 2025Allow1510YesNo
18816653MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR RECOMMENDING INTERACTION PARTIESAugust 2024July 2025Allow1110NoNo
18808863Node-Driven Leadership Transitions In Node ClustersAugust 2024August 2025Allow1210NoNo
18805095NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING BASED ON SUBGRAPH RECOGNITIONAugust 2024June 2025Allow1010NoNo
18802198DATABASE SYSTEM WITH GEOSPATIAL DATA AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITHAugust 2024December 2025Allow1610NoNo
18794549SCHEMA MANAGEMENT FOR A FEDERATED GRAPH WITH AT LEAST THREE LAYERSAugust 2024December 2025Allow1710YesNo
18774267DATA GROUP SYNCHRONIZATIONJuly 2024February 2026Allow1920YesNo
18774458Restricted Blockchain ClusterJuly 2024November 2025Allow1620NoNo
18769214SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STAGING OF DATA UPDATES TO DATABASE SYSTEM IN A MULTI-TENANT SYSTEMJuly 2024January 2026Allow1810NoNo
18759371REPLICATION OF HOT DATA RANGES IN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONAL KEY-VALUE STORESJune 2024December 2025Allow1710NoNo
18754836USING STATELESS NODES TO PROCESS DATA OF CATALOG OBJECTSJune 2024October 2025Allow1620YesNo
18749506SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIERED SYNCHRONIZATIONJune 2024December 2025Allow1810YesNo
18716371METHOD FOR QUANTIFICATION OF THE LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE OF A HUMAN ACTIVITY DIRECTED TO MITIGATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENTJune 2024February 2026Allow2110NoNo
18669315AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION OF USER ACTIVITY INTO COLLECTIONS BASED ON TOPICSMay 2024November 2025Allow1810YesNo
18656148Systems And Methods For Content Sharing Using Template-Driven WorkflowsMay 2024March 2025Allow1010NoNo
18649046METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SECURE INFORMATION TO A DECENTRALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTApril 2024August 2025Allow1510YesNo
18648854Systems and Methods of Establishing Correlative Relationships Between Geospatial Data Features in Feature Vectors Representing Property LocationsApril 2024March 2025Allow1010NoNo
18647638MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND METHODS OF PERFORMING THE SAMEApril 2024October 2025Allow1820YesNo
18643029WARM START FILE COMPRESSION USING SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTApril 2024June 2025Allow1310YesNo
18643404SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR CONTENT SELECTIONApril 2024April 2025Allow1210NoNo
18626721DISTRIBUTED AGGREGATIONS IN BIGTABLEApril 2024September 2025Allow1710YesNo
18622523SEQUENCE GENERATION IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASEMarch 2024November 2025Allow2010YesNo
18614121SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCING ASYNCHRONOUSLY RECEIVED SEQUENTIAL DATA FROM DISPARATE SOURCESMarch 2024July 2025Allow1620YesNo
18606442CONSTANT TIME DATA STRUCTURE FOR SINGLE AND DISTRIBUTED NETWORKSMarch 2024December 2024Allow910NoNo
18442807STREAMLINED FILE SYSTEM MEMORY INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONSFebruary 2024September 2025Allow1910YesNo
18413002DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICEJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1610NoNo
18406350COORDINATING DEDUPLICATION AMONG NODESJanuary 2024July 2025Allow1820NoNo
18397987DATA LINEAGE BASED MULTI-DATA STORE RECOVERYDecember 2023October 2024Allow1010NoNo
18394026METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTSDecember 2023April 2025Allow1610NoNo
18544296Systems and Methods for Distributed Entity TrackingDecember 2023May 2025Allow1720NoNo
18531244DISPLAY METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2023June 2025Allow1810NoNo
18530914DATABASE SIMULATION MODELING FRAMEWORKDecember 2023January 2025Allow1410YesNo
18288040HIGH-ORDER CORRELATION PRESERVED INCOMPLETE MULTI-VIEW SUBSPACE CLUSTERING METHOD AND SYSTEMNovember 2023May 2025Allow1910NoNo
18518964Techniques for Providing an Upgraded Content ExperienceNovember 2023November 2024Allow1210NoNo
18516834METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT SYNCHRONIZATION OF SEARCH HEADS IN A CLUSTER USING DIGESTSNovember 2023September 2024Allow1000NoNo
18511186HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION OF UNSTRUCTURED TEXT USING NEURAL NETWORKSNovember 2023March 2025Allow1610YesNo
18508990TECHNIQUES FOR REPLICATION-AWARE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND TASK MANAGEMENT OF FILE SYSTEMSNovember 2023July 2025Allow2010YesNo
18387256METHOD OF APPLYING COMPUTATIONAL MODEL IN MULTIPLE COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE-BASED DBMS STORAGE ENGINENovember 2023March 2025Allow1620YesNo
18500761GRAPH AND VECTOR USAGE FOR AUTOMATED QA SYSTEMNovember 2023April 2025Allow1820YesNo
18499005MOBILE PLATFORM FILE AND FOLDER SELECTION FUNCTIONALITIES FOR OFFLINE ACCESS AND SYNCHRONIZATIONOctober 2023October 2024Allow1210NoNo
18498657MANAGING DATABASE TRAFFIC BETWEEN ISOLATED DATABASE SYSTEMSOctober 2023January 2025Allow1420YesNo
18498484GLOBAL GRAPH-BASED CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR LARGE DATA PREDICTION DOMAINOctober 2023April 2025Allow1810YesNo
18491087QUERY OPTIMIZATION FOR PLANNER STATISTICS FOR DATABASESOctober 2023April 2025Allow1810NoNo
18488795Any-Local-Quorum Consistency For Distributed Databases Replicated Across Multiple SitesOctober 2023June 2025Allow2010YesNo
18486616METHOD, DEVICE, AND PRODUCT FOR SEARCHING DATAOctober 2023March 2025Allow1710NoNo
18380065METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR COLLECTING DATA FROM MULTI-DOMAINOctober 2023April 2025Allow1810NoNo
18554482FINDING FAULTS IN FIRMWARE FOR A LOCK DEVICEOctober 2023September 2025Allow2310NoNo
18480991DATA PROCESSING DURING DATA REPLICATIONOctober 2023April 2025Allow1810YesNo
18478848COMMIT TIME LOGGING FOR TIME-BASED MULTI-VERSION CONCURRENCY CONTROLSeptember 2023June 2025Allow2120NoNo
18374755FORMING MARKED SOURCE CODE TO ASCERTAIN APPLICATION TEST COVERAGESeptember 2023October 2025Allow2510YesNo
18470251DATA SEARCH AND ANALYSIS FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA SYSTEMSSeptember 2023September 2024Allow1210YesNo
18468763System and method for classifying software code based on functionality and criticalitySeptember 2023May 2025Allow2000NoNo
18456675LOW LATENCY INGESTION INTO A DATA SYSTEMAugust 2023January 2025Allow1610NoNo
18450080GENERATING PROBABILISTIC DATA STRUCTURES FOR LOOKUP TABLES IN COMPUTER MEMORY FOR MULTI-TOKEN SEARCHINGAugust 2023March 2025Allow1910YesNo
18447934DEFERRED CONSTRAINTS SUPPORT IN DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMSAugust 2023January 2024Allow610NoNo
18447717PROVIDING MANAGED BACKTRACE ABILITY FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE (VDI)August 2023December 2024Allow1710YesNo
18362769USING STATELESS NODES TO PROCESS DATA OF CATALOG OBJECTSJuly 2023May 2024Allow1010NoNo
18362747SCHEMA AND DATA MODIFICATION CONCURRENCY IN QUERY PROCESSING PUSHDOWNJuly 2023September 2024Allow1410NoNo
18362869TASK-EXECUTION PLANNING USING MACHINE LEARNINGJuly 2023August 2024Allow1210NoNo
18357925DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUSJuly 2023January 2025Allow1710NoNo
18355505STRUCTURING GEOSPATIAL INDEX DATA FOR ACCESS DURING QUERY EXECUTION VIA A DATABASE SYSTEMJuly 2023August 2024Allow1200NoNo
18221753BLOOM FILTER FOR AVOIDING PARTITION LOADINGJuly 2023April 2025Allow2140NoNo
18349098VICTIM ZONE SELECTION FOR ZONE COMPACTION DURING GARBAGE COLLECTION IN ZNS DEVICESJuly 2023October 2024Allow1610NoNo
18342171SELECTIVE LOGGING AND WHEEL OF TIME FOR VEHICLE NETWORK LOGGER SYSTEMJune 2023October 2024Allow1510YesNo
18341697APPROXIMATE K NEAREST NEIGHBORS ON HARDWARE ACCELERATORSJune 2023September 2024Allow1510YesNo
18257667OBTAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCK GROUP HEADER, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEJune 2023March 2025Allow2100NoNo
18207888METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING VERIFIABLE RANDOMNESS WITHIN A DECENTRALIZED COMPUTING NETWORKJune 2023April 2025Allow2210NoNo
18206763RESTRICTED BLOCKCHAIN CLUSTERJune 2023September 2024Allow1510NoNo
18254265VISUALIZATION OF ENERGY DOMAIN DATAMay 2023April 2024Allow1110NoNo
18253715Management System And Method For A Distributed Multi-Model Database ArchitectureMay 2023August 2024Allow1510NoNo
18319268Maintaining Data Integrity for Backed Up FilesMay 2023January 2025Allow2020YesNo
18142952NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING BASED ON SUBGRAPH RECOGNITIONMay 2023May 2024Allow1210YesNo
18140125SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR OPERATING A MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE WITH A SHARED DISTRIBUTED CACHEApril 2023January 2024Allow900NoNo
18299445APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IT/OT CONFIGURATION HISTORIZATIONApril 2023February 2025Allow2220NoNo
18132146CREATING SEGMENTS FOR DIRECTED INFORMATION USING LOCATION INFORMATIONApril 2023July 2025Allow2830NoNo
18194668RESOLVING NAMESPACE COLLISIONS DURING FILESYSTEM INCREMENTAL REPLICATIONApril 2023August 2024Allow1710YesNo
18128914USING STATEMENT CACHING WHEN IMPLEMENTING SERVER BASED OR PROXY BASED POOLING SOLUTIONSMarch 2023August 2024Allow1710YesNo
18128974SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SUB-GRAPH PROCESSING IN EXECUTABLE GRAPH-BASED MODELSMarch 2023May 2024Allow1400NoNo
18189030TRANSIENT EXPLORATORY EDITING OF INPUT TABLES ON A DATA WAREHOUSEMarch 2023December 2024Allow2020YesNo
18118122REMOTE WIPING FOR DATA TRANSPORT, STORAGE AND RETRIEVALMarch 2023October 2023Allow710NoNo
18177607Communications Framework for Multi-Cluster Management SystemsMarch 2023August 2024Allow1820NoNo
18114457INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODFebruary 2023September 2023Allow710NoNo
18111389USING AN ASSET BUCKET FOR CORRELATING ASSETSFebruary 2023December 2024Allow2220NoNo
18169806DATA PROCESSING METHODFebruary 2023September 2024Allow1910NoNo
18167320METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DATABASE RECORDS USING PREDEFINED AUTOMATED NEXT ACTIONSFebruary 2023April 2024Allow1400NoNo
18162494SCHEMA INFERENCE FOR FILESJanuary 2023February 2024Allow1210NoNo

Appeals Overview

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Examiner KHONG, ALEXANDER - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner KHONG, ALEXANDER works in Art Unit 2168 and has examined 57 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 91.2%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner KHONG, ALEXANDER's allowance rate of 91.2% places them in the 76% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by KHONG, ALEXANDER receive 2.00 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 51% 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 KHONG, ALEXANDER is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 75% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +14.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by KHONG, ALEXANDER. This interview benefit is in the 53% 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, 32.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 70% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 39.1% 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 80.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 84% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 12% 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 13% 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:

    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

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