USPTO Examiner LE DEBBIE M - Art Unit 2168

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19029473Audiovisual content curation systemJanuary 2025March 2026Allow1410NoNo
18984605GUIDED WEB CRAWLER FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION OF WEBPAGE RESOURCESDecember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18963347Presenting Related Content while Browsing and Searching ContentNovember 2024January 2026Allow1410NoNo
18952581AUTO COLLECTION PROCESSINGNovember 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18933061SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPORTS ABILITY RATINGSOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510YesNo
18921387INTERACTIVE DATA FIELD ANALYZEROctober 2024September 2025Allow1000NoNo
18919264Distributed Graph Analysis with Atomic TransactionsOctober 2024August 2025Allow1000NoNo
18856799INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND OPTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUSOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18913102METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING, NAVIGATING, AND PRESENTING COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS IN CONTENTOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18907927LIVE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DATABASE DISASTER RECOVERYOctober 2024July 2025Allow900NoNo
18908588AUTOMATIC DATA STORE ARCHITECTURE DETECTIONOctober 2024October 2025Allow1210NoNo
18885060KNOWLEDGE RE-RANKING TECHNIQUESSeptember 2024November 2025Allow1410YesNo
18826173SIGNALS AND MEASUREMENT OF BUSINESS GOALS IN A CHATBOT PLATFORMSeptember 2024October 2025Allow1310NoNo
18824525SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO TRACK, ANALYZE AND INTERPRET A BIG DATA DATASETSeptember 2024September 2025Allow1210NoNo
18839385METHOD FOR FILTERING A GRAPHAugust 2024October 2025Allow1410NoNo
18785124ADDITIONAL SEARCHING BASED ON CONFIDENCE IN A CLASSIFICATION PERFORMED BY A GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MACHINE LEARNING MODELJuly 2024October 2025Allow1410YesNo
18781914LOG INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2024September 2025Allow1410NoNo
18747068DATA QUERY OPTIMIZATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2024October 2025Allow1610NoNo
18743958QUERY COMPOSITION SYSTEMJune 2024July 2025Allow1310NoNo
18735936REASSIGNMENT OF PROCESSING NODESJune 2024August 2025Allow1400NoNo
18733323INFORMATION SERVICE FOR FACTS EXTRACTED FROM DIFFERING SOURCES ON A WIDE AREA NETWORKJune 2024October 2025Allow1710NoNo
18649256Implementing Guardrails For Non-Disruptive Migration Of WorkloadsApril 2024March 2026Allow2220YesNo
18647297Reranking Documents Based on Graph Representations of the DocumentsApril 2024August 2025Allow1610YesNo
18638498RECONSTRUCTING BROWSER INTERACTION FROM SESSION DATA HAVING INCOMPLETE TRACKING DATAApril 2024June 2025Allow1410NoNo
18626551ENHANCING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESPONSES WITH CONTEXTUAL USAGE INSIGHTSApril 2024August 2025Allow1610YesNo
18622397Document Correlation OptimizerMarch 2024December 2025Allow2110YesNo
18617630DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2024August 2025Allow1710NoNo
18599543METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR IDENTIFYING ENTITY RELATIONSHIP PAIRSMarch 2024July 2025Allow1610NoNo
18591964ENHANCED AND ADAPTIVE QUERY DETECTION ENGINE(S) FOR PREDICTING AND IDENTIFYING EMERGENT INCIDIENT QUERIESFebruary 2024July 2025Allow1610NoNo
18590656RESOURCE CONSERVATION BASED ON QUERY COMPLEXITYFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1510YesNo
18590334METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRUNING BLOCKS FROM A BLOCKCHAINFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1510NoNo
18441592SYNCHRONIZATION OF GRAPHICAL DATAFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310YesNo
18441389RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1510NoNo
18438101METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODIFYING A SEARCH RESULTFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210NoNo
18419118SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CYBERTHREATS FROM UNSTRUCTURED SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENTJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210NoNo
18409472SHARED HIERARCHICAL DATA DESIGN MODEL FOR TRANSFERRING DATA WITHIN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1310NoNo
18402291ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED AUTOMATED PARSER CREATIONJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1710YesNo
18401246ENABLING A MORE ACCURATE SEARCH OF A DIGITAL MEDIA DATABASEDecember 2023July 2025Allow1810YesNo
18396848CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - MIGRATIONDecember 2023March 2025Allow1510YesNo
18545324TECHNIQUES FOR PRESENTING CONTENT TO A USER BASED ON THE USER'S PREFERENCESDecember 2023February 2025Allow1300NoNo
18530026INTEGRATION FLOW GENERATION USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELSDecember 2023July 2025Allow1910YesNo
18524131OPTIMIZATION OF TIME-SERIES ANOMALY DETECTIONNovember 2023January 2025Allow1400NoNo
18522397GRAPH SEARCH DEVICE, GRAPH SEARCH SYSTEM, AND GRAPH SEARCH METHODNovember 2023May 2025Allow1710NoNo
18517199Moderation of User-Generated ContentNovember 2023April 2025Allow1710NoNo
18502620REPRESENTATION AND VISUALIZATION OF MULTIVARIATE SENSORY TIME SERIES DATANovember 2023April 2025Allow1710NoNo
18501225Blockchain Node and Transaction MethodNovember 2023March 2025Allow1710YesNo
18498688DEDUPLICATED DATA DISTRIBUTION TECHNIQUESOctober 2023May 2025Abandon1910NoNo
18381165ADAPTIVE INTERPRETATION AND COMPILATION OF DATABASE QUERIESOctober 2023February 2025Allow1610YesNo
18479477METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HYPERVISOR LEVEL DATA SERVICES FOR SERVER VIRTUALIZATIONOctober 2023October 2024Allow1310NoNo
18471470AUDIBLE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE TOOLSeptember 2023December 2024Allow1510NoNo
18370924DYNAMIC VISUAL TAGGING SYSTEM FOR SEARCHSeptember 2023January 2025Allow1610YesNo
18462715Audiovisual Content Curation SystemSeptember 2023October 2024Allow1410NoNo
18232498KEYWORD SELECTION FOR SKILLS INFERENCEAugust 2023December 2024Allow1600YesNo
18229727Expert Detection in Social NetworksAugust 2023August 2024Allow1310NoNo
18343829PREDICTIVE FEEDBACK ENGINE FOR IMPROVING SEARCH RELEVANCE IN A TENANT CONFIGURABLE HYBRID SEARCH SYSTEMJune 2023July 2025Allow2420NoNo
18340436SOFTWARE UTILITY TOOLBOX FOR CLIENT DEVICESJune 2023October 2024Allow1610NoNo
18337231METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING LARGE AMOUNTS OF REAL WORLD EVIDENCEJune 2023September 2024Allow1510NoNo
18328992SNAPSHOT ISOLATION QUERY TRANSACTIONS IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSJune 2023April 2024Allow1100NoNo
18326598SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING ENTITY BASED DATA SEARCHES BETWEEN ENTERPRISESMay 2023March 2025Allow2210NoNo
18326699PATTERN-BASED MATCHING FOR POLICY ENGINESMay 2023February 2025Allow2010YesNo
18325782RENDERING A SERVICE GRAPH TO ILLUSTRATE PAGE PROVIDER DEPENDENCIES AT AN AGGREGATE LEVELMay 2023August 2024Allow1510NoNo
18201514Linking Discrete Dimensions to Enhance Dimensional AnalysisMay 2023March 2024Allow1010NoNo
18322527Automatic selection of visualization parameter based on field selectionMay 2023June 2024Allow1310NoNo
18318759System and Method for Performing Analyses and Automation Within Digital SystemsMay 2023October 2025Allow2910NoNo
18306638Visual and Audio Multimodal Searching SystemApril 2023February 2025Allow2210YesNo
18138195METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REUSE OF DATA ITEM FINGERPRINTS IN GENERATION OF SEMANTIC MAPSApril 2023September 2024Allow1610NoNo
18301276MACHINE-LEARNED NEWS AGGREGATION AND SERVINGApril 2023February 2025Allow2220NoNo
18135012Workflow for Generating Synthetic Data based on a Relational DatabaseApril 2023October 2024Allow1810NoNo
18300936SUPPLEMENTING EXTRACTION RULES BASED ON EVENT CLUSTERINGApril 2023May 2024Allow1310NoNo
18300032SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOM LABEL EMBEDDINGApril 2023October 2024Allow1810YesNo
18299069METHOD, SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SIGHT INFORMATION AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUMApril 2023October 2024Allow1810NoNo
18298714METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING AN ENHANCED RESPONSE TO A QUERY IN AN IOT ENVIRONMENTApril 2023February 2025Allow2220YesNo
18296536GUIDED WEB CRAWLER FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION OF WEBPAGE RESOURCESApril 2023September 2024Allow1710YesNo
18128155QUERY COMPOSITION SYSTEMMarch 2023February 2024Allow1110NoNo
18127123GENERATING PARAMETER VALUES FOR SNAPSHOT SCHEDULES UTILIZING A REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FRAMEWORKMarch 2023October 2024Allow1910YesNo
18123758REASSIGNING A PROCESSING NODE FROM DOWNLOADING TO SEARCHING A DATA GROUPMarch 2023February 2024Allow1110NoNo
18169627SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CYBERTHREATS FROM UNSTRUCTURED SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENTFebruary 2023October 2023Allow810NoNo
18160969AUTOMATIC DATA STORE ARCHITECTURE DETECTIONJanuary 2023May 2024Allow1610NoNo
18155744INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR ANALYZING TEXTJanuary 2023November 2024Allow2220NoNo
18067414DATA ACCESS USING SORTED COUNT MAPPINGDecember 2022June 2023Allow610NoNo
18081832Presenting Related Content while Browsing and Searching ContentDecember 2022August 2024Allow2010YesNo
18009766SEARCH USING WORDS FROM USER INTERFACEDecember 2022June 2024Allow1810YesNo
18009857INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUMDecember 2022August 2024Allow2010NoNo
18076202Method for Classifying Asset FileDecember 2022September 2024Abandon2210NoNo
18076037INTELLIGENT SURGERY VIDEO MANAGEMENT AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMDecember 2022January 2025Allow2620YesNo
18059691SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEMANTIC PARSING WITH PRIMITIVE LEVEL ENUMERATIONNovember 2022June 2024Allow1910YesNo
17987565SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING ITEMS ON LISTNovember 2022December 2024Abandon2520NoNo
18053053AUTOMATIC BUILDING, VERIFYING, AND SECURING OF A MASTER DATA LISTNovember 2022April 2024Allow1810YesNo
17974095Audiovisual Content Curation SystemOctober 2022June 2023Allow710YesNo
17964290DEDUPLICATED DATA DISTRIBUTION TECHNIQUESOctober 2022June 2023Allow910NoNo
17960030Fast Aggregation And Ingestion Of Multidimensional DataOctober 2022November 2025Allow3830YesNo
17936408Pre-Processing of Files for Normalization of Fixed Length Fragment ComparisonSeptember 2022May 2024Allow2010YesNo
17948821PRODUCING NATIVELY COMPILED QUERY PLANS BY RECOMPILING EXISTING C CODE THROUGH PARTIAL EVALUATIONSeptember 2022April 2024Allow1910YesNo
17947339TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING RESYNCHRONIZATION ON A CLUSTERED SYSTEMSeptember 2022November 2023Allow1410YesNo
17933160METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SNAPSHOTTING METADATA, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2022June 2024Abandon2110NoNo
17932750SIGNALS AND MEASUREMENT OF BUSINESS GOALS IN A CHATBOT PLATFORMSeptember 2022May 2024Allow2010YesNo
17942844Moderation of User-Generated ContentSeptember 2022August 2023Allow1110NoNo
17898857AUDIBLE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE TOOLAugust 2022June 2023Allow1010NoNo
17892765METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODIFYING A SEARCH RESULTAugust 2022November 2023Allow1510NoNo
17816457METHODS FOR MANAGING SNAPSHOTS IN A DISTRIBUTED DE-DUPLICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICES THEREOFAugust 2022May 2023Allow1010NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner LE, DEBBIE M.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
16
Examiner Affirmed
9
(56.2%)
Examiner Reversed
7
(43.8%)
Reversal Percentile
66.6%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 43.8% 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.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
65
Allowed After Appeal Filing
20
(30.8%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
45
(69.2%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
46.7%
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 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 LE, DEBBIE M - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner LE, DEBBIE M works in Art Unit 2168 and has examined 923 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 88.9%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner LE, DEBBIE M's allowance rate of 88.9% places them in the 70% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by LE, DEBBIE M receive 1.64 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 32% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by LE, DEBBIE M is 31 months. This places the examiner in the 54% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +12.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by LE, DEBBIE M. This interview benefit is in the 49% 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, 36.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 84% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 22.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 30% 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, 57.1% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 48% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 75.8% of appeals filed. This is in the 67% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 48.0% 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, 48.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 43% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 11.4% of allowed cases (in the 94% 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 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 52% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

  • RCEs are effective: This examiner has a high allowance rate after RCE compared to others. If you receive a final rejection and have substantive amendments or arguments, an RCE is likely to be successful.
  • 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.

Limitation of Liability: Under no circumstances will IronCrow AI be liable for any outcome, decision, or action resulting from your reliance on the statistics, analysis, or recommendations presented in this report. Past prosecution patterns do not guarantee future results.

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.