Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17126006 | SYSTEM FOR UNSUPERVISED DIRECT QUERY AUTO CLUSTERING FOR LOCATION AND NETWORK QUALITY | December 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17120567 | INTERACTIVE GEOGRAPHICAL MAP | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17116831 | DUPLICATION ELIMINATION IN DEPTH BASED SEARCHES FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS | December 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17107874 | EFFICIENT OPTIMIZATION OF SQL QUERIES HAVING SET OPERATORS WITH A MULTI-SET SEMANTIC | November 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17105991 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON A COMPOSITIONAL QUERY | November 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 29 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17104392 | PERSISTENT METADATA CATALOG | November 2020 | September 2023 | Allow | 34 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17092019 | MACHINE LEARNING USING QUERY ENGINES | November 2020 | June 2023 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17083116 | DATA PROFILING AND MONITORING | October 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17080426 | DYNAMIC PRIORITIZATION OF ATTRIBUTES TO DETERMINE SEARCH SPACE SIZE OF EACH TERM, THEN INDEX ON THOSE SIZES AS ATTRIBUTES | October 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 44 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17037744 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | September 2020 | February 2024 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17037222 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLOCKCHAIN BASED DECENTRALIZED STORAGE WITH DYNAMIC DATA OPERATIONS | September 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16977687 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER APPARATUS FOR MERGING REGIONS OF HBASE TABLE | September 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17008937 | MULTI-CHANNEL SEARCH | September 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17004126 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING AND STORING STREAMED EVENT DATA | August 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16998831 | SYSTEM MODELS THAT SUPPORT THE TRACEABILITY OF ACTIVITIES | August 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16988493 | Separate Runtime Data From Metadata | August 2020 | November 2024 | Abandon | 52 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16984411 | SHADOW EXPERIMENTS FOR SERVERLESS MULTI-TENANT CLOUD SERVICES | August 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 48 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16935626 | Storage Unit Selection In A Distributed Storage Network | July 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 45 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16925924 | RULES-BASED STRUCTURED DATA FILTERING IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | July 2020 | January 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16925636 | MODEL-BASED STRUCTURED DATA FILTERING IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | July 2020 | January 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16915778 | Method of Generating At-Scale Geospatial Features of Designated Attribution and Geometry | June 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 45 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16767223 | RECOMMENDER METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PATENT PROCESSING | May 2020 | March 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 1 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16876660 | DATA CLASSIFICATION | May 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16856706 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING LOG FILES ASSOCIATED WITH A SYSTEM | April 2020 | April 2023 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16836253 | Content-Modification System With Geographic Area-Based Feature | March 2020 | March 2023 | Abandon | 35 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16819143 | Method and System for Operation Objects Discovery from Operation Data | March 2020 | February 2025 | Allow | 59 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16797456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RULE-BASED VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA PROTECTION | February 2020 | July 2021 | Abandon | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16749771 | APPROXIMATE MATCHING | January 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16744919 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS CONFIGURED FOR ENTITY RESOLUTION FOR EFFICIENT DATASET REDUCTION | January 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16724927 | SPARSE DATA INDEX TABLE | December 2019 | September 2021 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16712696 | LOG-STRUCTURED STORAGE SYSTEMS | December 2019 | October 2021 | Allow | 22 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16596399 | RARE TOPIC DETECTION USING HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING | October 2019 | February 2025 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16557908 | METHOD AND/OR SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA STREAMS | August 2019 | November 2022 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16531711 | APPROACHES FOR KNOWLEDGE GRAPH PRUNING BASED ON SAMPLING AND INFORMATION GAIN THEORY | August 2019 | December 2023 | Allow | 52 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16458682 | ORDERING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON A KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF A USER PERFORMING THE SEARCH | July 2019 | January 2025 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16426134 | COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING SPACE MANAGEMENT FOR DATA STORAGE IN A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | May 2019 | May 2022 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16399997 | GENERATING EXTENDED REALITY VIEWS BASED ON USER-BASED FILTERS | April 2019 | June 2023 | Allow | 49 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16352753 | Relational Blockchain Database | March 2019 | November 2019 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16227700 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA REPLICATION | December 2018 | May 2023 | Allow | 53 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16224851 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR ITERATIVELY DYNAMICALLY ASSIGNING DATA OBJECTS TO A PLURALITY OF PROCESSING MODULES OF A DATABASE SYSTEM | December 2018 | July 2024 | Abandon | 60 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16208321 | CLASSIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS | December 2018 | March 2022 | Allow | 40 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16149494 | NAVIGATION PATH METADATA SENTIMENT AWARENESS | October 2018 | November 2021 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16090512 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATABASE OPTIMISATION | October 2018 | December 2021 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16081844 | SYSTEM, METHOD OF REAL-TIME PROCESSING UNDER RESOURCE CONSTRAINT AT EDGE | August 2018 | April 2021 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16117003 | PERMUTATION-BASED MACHINE LEARNING FOR DATABASE QUERY OPTIMIZATION | August 2018 | January 2022 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16115746 | DATABASE-AWARE SNAPSHOTTING | August 2018 | April 2022 | Allow | 44 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16114345 | DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | August 2018 | September 2023 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16048022 | DATABASE PUBLIC INTERFACE | July 2018 | June 2021 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16041730 | System and Method for Concise Display of Query Results via Thumbnails With Indicative Images and Differentiating Terms | July 2018 | September 2019 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15993284 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATAFLOW GRAPH OPTIMIZATION | May 2018 | February 2024 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15991039 | CHANGE NOTIFICATIONS FOR OBJECT STORAGE | May 2018 | November 2022 | Abandon | 54 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15989736 | SENSOR FUSION FOR GENERATING QUERIES | May 2018 | July 2021 | Abandon | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15988419 | AGGREGATED CONTENT EDITING SERVICES (ACES), AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS | May 2018 | October 2020 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15959172 | CONSENSUS BASED EDITABLE BLOCKCHAIN | April 2018 | August 2021 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15958490 | SCHEMA DATA STRUCTURE | April 2018 | July 2022 | Abandon | 51 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15958599 | INTERACTIVE GEOGRAPHICAL MAP | April 2018 | September 2020 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15958517 | CONSISTENT CLIENT-SIDE CACHING FOR FINE GRAINED INVALIDATIONS | April 2018 | September 2022 | Allow | 53 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15903497 | ADAPTIVE STORAGE OF DATA CAPTURED BY ONE OR MORE VEHICLES | February 2018 | February 2022 | Allow | 48 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15903800 | INTEGRATED UNIVERSAL FILE CONVERTER | February 2018 | August 2020 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15902440 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING TIME SERIES DATA IN MEMORY | February 2018 | September 2021 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15902222 | MULTI-TIER DEFINITION MANAGEMENT FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA STORES | February 2018 | December 2023 | Allow | 60 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15887667 | INTEGRATED IMAGE SYSTEM BASED ON IMAGE SEARCH FEATURE | February 2018 | June 2023 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15887718 | WORKLOAD AND INTERFACE COGNIZANT HEAT-TIERED STORAGE | February 2018 | March 2023 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15839673 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RULE-BASED VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA PROTECTION | December 2017 | September 2019 | Abandon | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15835680 | DISTRIBUTED MATCH AND ASSOCIATION OF ENTITY KEY-VALUE ATTRIBUTE PAIRS | December 2017 | October 2021 | Allow | 47 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15822738 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING ENTRIES FROM A DATABASE | November 2017 | July 2019 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15802550 | Uniform Parsing of Configuration Files for Multiple Product Types | November 2017 | February 2023 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15654143 | HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURE | July 2017 | September 2023 | Abandon | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15637594 | INTERESTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS PROFILE FOR ADVANCED BROADCAST SERVICES | June 2017 | February 2020 | Abandon | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15535007 | METHOD FOR READING AND WRITING DATA AND DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | June 2017 | November 2022 | Allow | 60 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15618843 | K-MER BASED STRAIN TYPING | June 2017 | October 2022 | Abandon | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15481744 | SCHEDULING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA CLEANSING TO OPTIMIZE CLINICAL SCHEDULING | April 2017 | September 2018 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15479172 | ENHANCING PERFORMANCE-COST RATIO OF A PRIMARY STORAGE ADAPTIVE DATA REDUCTION SYSTEM | April 2017 | September 2020 | Abandon | 42 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15457826 | SEARCH RESULT RANKING METHOD AND SYSTEM | March 2017 | October 2020 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15397714 | EVALUATING SQL EXPRESSIONS ON DICTIONARY ENCODED VECTORS | January 2017 | November 2021 | Allow | 59 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15370165 | DETERMINING A CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF TRANSACTIONS EXECUTED IN RELATION TO AN OBJECT STORED IN A STORAGE SYSTEM | December 2016 | March 2023 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15294756 | CATEGORY PREDICTION FROM SEMANTIC IMAGE CLUSTERING | October 2016 | July 2021 | Abandon | 57 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15304203 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SELECTING AN AUDIO TRACK | October 2016 | April 2021 | Abandon | 54 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15294609 | Search System and Method for Updating a Scoring Model of Search Results based on a Normalized CTR | October 2016 | December 2020 | Abandon | 50 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15294524 | Fragmentation for Rapid Data Visualization | October 2016 | August 2019 | Allow | 34 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15294460 | IN-MEMORY COLUMN-LEVEL MULTI-VERSIONED GLOBAL DICTIONARY FOR IN-MEMORY DATABASES | October 2016 | March 2020 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15282076 | MULTI-TIER STORAGE SYSTEM WITH DIRECT CLIENT ACCESS TO ARCHIVE STORAGE TIER | September 2016 | September 2020 | Allow | 48 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15281656 | Dynamic Augmenting Relevance Rankings Using Data From External Ratings Sources | September 2016 | May 2022 | Allow | 60 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15281910 | RESTORATION OF CONTENT OF A VOLUME | September 2016 | May 2020 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15236834 | System and Process for Concept Tagging and Content Retrieval | August 2016 | August 2023 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15114337 | REAL-TIME MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF QUERY EXECUTION | July 2016 | January 2022 | Allow | 60 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15218408 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD | July 2016 | December 2020 | Abandon | 53 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 15151298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA CLEANSING SUCH AS FOR OPTIMIZING CLINICAL SCHEDULING | May 2016 | August 2018 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15063404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND ACTING UPON A USER'S ASSOCIATION TO A ZONE OF RELEVANCE | March 2016 | December 2018 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15053834 | REAL TIME IMPLICIT USER MODELING FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH | February 2016 | March 2019 | Abandon | 37 | 3 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15045331 | DYNAMIC CREATION OF DOMAIN SPECIFIC CORPORA | February 2016 | February 2018 | Abandon | 24 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14937253 | ORDERING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON A KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF A USER PERFORMING THE SEARCH | November 2015 | March 2019 | Allow | 41 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14880317 | DATA PROTECTION AND RECOVERY SYSTEM | October 2015 | February 2020 | Allow | 52 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14880756 | AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF DATA RELATING TO A MAINTENANCE OPERATION | October 2015 | July 2019 | Allow | 45 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14880009 | DATABASE PUBLIC INTERFACE | October 2015 | May 2020 | Allow | 55 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14879276 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR GRAPH BASED DECLARATIVE MAPPING | October 2015 | December 2019 | Allow | 50 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14879192 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | October 2015 | May 2020 | Allow | 55 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14880103 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING CONTAGION SOURCES IN NETWORKS WITH PARTIAL TIMESTAMPS | October 2015 | December 2020 | Abandon | 60 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 14876617 | Viewing Search Results Using Multiple Different Devices | October 2015 | March 2021 | Abandon | 60 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14651381 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON A COMPOSITIONAL QUERY | June 2015 | August 2020 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner ZHAO, YU.
With a 38.9% 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, 23.7% 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.
✓ 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 ZHAO, YU works in Art Unit 2169 and has examined 287 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 47.7%, this examiner allows applications at a lower rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 51 months.
Examiner ZHAO, YU's allowance rate of 47.7% places them in the 12% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is less likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by ZHAO, YU receive 4.22 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 97% 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 ZHAO, YU is 51 months. This places the examiner in the 6% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +38.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by ZHAO, YU. This interview benefit is in the 85% 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, 12.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 9% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show lower effectiveness with this examiner compared to others. Consider whether a continuation application might be more strategic, especially if you need to add new matter or significantly broaden claims.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 6.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 7% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 63.2% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 52% 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 62.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 41% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 30.0% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 71.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 77% 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's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 1.7% of allowed cases (in the 73% 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 13% 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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