USPTO Examiner SUN CHARLIE - Art Unit 2196

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19048513DYNAMICALLY COMPOSABLE DATA-IN-PLACE SYSTEMFebruary 2025April 2025Allow200NoNo
18988734Machine Learning Technique for Efficiently Scheduling Tasks for Large-Scale Analysis of Binary ExecutablesDecember 2024April 2025Allow410YesNo
18987197SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE ADAPTIVE RESOURCE CAPACITY PREDICTION AND CONTROL USING CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES WITH A CAPACITY PREDICTION INTERFACEDecember 2024June 2025Allow610YesNo
18905078Machine Learning Technique for Efficiently Scheduling Tasks for Large-Scale Analysis of Binary ExecutablesOctober 2024December 2024Allow200NoNo
18785993SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE ADAPTIVE RESOURCE CAPACITY PREDICTION AND CONTROL USING CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES WITH A CAPACITY PREDICTION INTERFACEJuly 2024December 2024Allow510YesNo
18739658SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBSERVING AND PREDICTING DATA BATCH ACTIVITY IN REAL TIMEJune 2024September 2024Allow310NoNo
18677805METHOD, AN APPARATUS, AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETECTING VIRTUAL MACHINE LOADMay 2024August 2024Allow200NoNo
18667804MANAGING PROXY VIRTUAL MACHINESMay 2024July 2025Allow1410NoNo
18584281VIRTUAL SERVER AGENT LOAD BALANCINGFebruary 2024January 2025Allow1110NoNo
18437039TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND STORAGEFebruary 2024July 2024Allow610NoNo
18417445METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING THREADS IN MANYCOREJanuary 2024July 2024Allow610NoNo
18402659COMPLEX COMPUTING NETWORK FOR CONTROLLING COMPUTING OPERATIONS BASED ON A COMPUTING LOADJanuary 2024May 2024Allow400NoNo
18395473TRANSACTION SCHEDULING FOR A USER DATA CACHE BY ASSESSING UPDATE CRITERIADecember 2023March 2025Allow1410NoNo
18525748Managing Resources of a System Based on Hardware Transactional MemoryNovember 2023February 2025Allow1410NoNo
18498999METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING CONTROL FLOW PATTERNS IN SOFTWARE CODE TO DETECT SOFTWARE ANOMALIESOctober 2023May 2024Allow610NoNo
18492355Event processing in a distributed computing environmentOctober 2023October 2024Allow1200NoNo
18239977CRYPTOMINING HEAT MANAGEMENTAugust 2023May 2024Allow810NoNo
18362721DYNAMIC SELECTION OF WHERE TO EXECUTE APPLICATION CODE IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKJuly 2023January 2025Allow1820NoNo
18224993SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING LIVE EVENTSJuly 2023September 2024Allow1420YesNo
18345993ORCHESTRATING SELF-TUNING FOR CLOUD STORAGEJune 2023March 2025Allow2020NoNo
18340335TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTING DRIFT IN A DEPLOYMENT ORCHESTRATORJune 2023July 2024Allow1300NoNo
18207664Managing Resources of a System Based on Hardware Transactional MemoryJune 2023August 2023Allow300NoNo
18317827Techniques for Concurrently Supporting Virtual NUMA and CPU/Memory Hot-Add in a Virtual MachineMay 2023March 2024Allow1000NoNo
18143048CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF HANDLING LOAD BALANCEMay 2023September 2025Allow2800NoNo
18184964SINGLE-CLICK EJECTION OF PERIPHERAL DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH VIRTUAL MACHINESMarch 2023April 2024Allow1310NoNo
18169392MANAGING WORKLOADS IN A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEMFebruary 2023August 2025Allow3000NoNo
18166400DYNAMIC SELECTION OF WHERE TO EXECUTE APPLICATION CODE IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKFebruary 2023April 2023Allow200NoNo
18103087HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR COMPUTING AN ALGEBRAIC FUNCTIONJanuary 2023July 2025Allow2900NoNo
18095201System for Transparent Provisioning of Functionally Identical Resources across Diverse Hosting and Cloud PlatformsJanuary 2023June 2025Allow2900NoNo
18152533RESOURCE-CAPABILITY-AND-CONNECTIVITY-BASED WORKLOAD PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMJanuary 2023July 2025Allow3000NoNo
18087104System and Method for User Interactive Pipelining of a Computing ApplicationDecember 2022June 2025Allow3000NoNo
18067364SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING LIVE EVENTSDecember 2022April 2023Allow400NoNo
18071692Offloading execution of a multi-task parameter-dependent operation to a network deviceNovember 2022November 2023Allow1110NoNo
18070443BASELINE MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICENovember 2022August 2023Allow1920YesNo
18052684Systems and Methods to Leverage Unused Compute Resource for Machine Learning TasksNovember 2022January 2025Allow2630NoNo
18052329Resource Management Unit for Capturing Operating System Configuration States and Offloading TasksNovember 2022May 2023Allow700NoNo
17968748EDGE-CASE RESOLUTION IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMSOctober 2022July 2025Allow3210NoNo
17957655SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CRITICAL SEQUENCES OF ACTIONS CAUSING PREDETERMINED EVENTS DURING APPLICATION OPERATIONSSeptember 2022April 2025Allow3100NoNo
17957521REQUESTING POWER MANAGEMENT METRICS FOR A PARALLEL ACCELERATED PROCESSOR FOR A VIRTUAL FUNCTIONSeptember 2022July 2025Allow3310YesNo
17941958DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF AN ORGANIZATION'S COMPUTINGSeptember 2022August 2024Allow2330NoNo
17940972VARIABLE AND EVENT REPORTING IN A CLOUD SERVICE SYSTEMSeptember 2022September 2023Allow1200NoNo
17898642CUSTOMIZED ROOT PROCESSES FOR GROUPS OF APPLICATIONSAugust 2022July 2024Allow2230NoNo
17907785SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2022May 2023Allow800NoNo
17818422DYNAMIC TOGGLE OF FEATURES FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCESAugust 2022May 2023Allow1000NoNo
17879599IMPLEMENTING SERVERLESS FUNCTIONS USING CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DEVICESAugust 2022June 2023Allow1000NoNo
17877844SCHEDULING METHOD, SCHEDULING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2022July 2025Allow3610NoNo
17874182TECHNIQUES FOR INTER-CLOUD FEDERATED LEARNINGJuly 2022July 2025Allow3510NoNo
17813786System, Method, And Device for Ingesting Data into Remote Computing EnvironmentsJuly 2022June 2025Allow3510NoNo
17867368SEMI-AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENT TASK HUBJuly 2022July 2024Allow2400NoNo
17813009AUTOMATED RECONFIGURATION OF REAL TIME DATA STREAM PROCESSINGJuly 2022July 2023Allow1210NoNo
17863247DISTRIBUTION OF A WORKLOAD AMONG NODES OF A SYSTEM WITH A NUMA ARCHITECTUREJuly 2022June 2025Allow3510NoNo
17790667SCHEDULING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON DEEP LEARNING NODE COMPUTATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2022April 2025Allow3410NoNo
17809873CRASH RESILIENCE IN SHARED MEMORY PROCESSING SYSTEMSJune 2022April 2025Allow3400NoNo
17843918MODELING CLOUD INEFFICIENCIES USING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC TEMPLATESJune 2022December 2024Allow3000NoNo
17834378TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTING DRIFT IN A DEPLOYMENT ORCHESTRATORJune 2022March 2023Allow900NoNo
17833476SUBTASK STORAGE FOR STREAMING CONVOLUTIONS IN NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSORJune 2022May 2025Allow3600NoNo
17746967METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA USING COMPUTING ARRAY AND COMPUTING SYSTEMMay 2022February 2025Allow3310NoNo
17746636RESPONDING TO APPLICATION DEMAND IN A SYSTEM THAT USES PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC COMPONENTSMay 2022October 2023Allow1740YesNo
17743155SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENT TYPE-BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON RESOURCE TRANSFERSMay 2022March 2025Allow3410NoNo
17726853INTELLIGENT LOAD SCHEDULING IN A STORAGE SYSTEMApril 2022April 2025Allow3620NoNo
17721689CONFIGURATION TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGED VIRTUAL MACHINESApril 2022November 2023Allow1910NoNo
17719677DEPLOYING VIRTUAL MACHINES TO A VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT USING AN AGENT TO OBTAIN REMOTE VIRTUAL MACHINE TEMPLATESApril 2022November 2024Allow3100NoNo
17717859APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CONTROL OF MICROPROCESSOR CONFIGURATIONApril 2022September 2023Allow1710NoNo
17710371CONFIGURABLE TELEMETRY DATA PROCESSING VIA OBSERVABILITY PIPELINESMarch 2022February 2025Allow3410NoNo
17699385Computer-Implemented Method for Performing a System AssessmentMarch 2022September 2024Allow3000NoNo
17642644SUBMISSION AND SYNCHRONIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR SCHEDULING AND LOAD BALANCING HARDWARE ACCELERATED TASKS ON HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMSMarch 2022February 2025Allow3520YesNo
17654528Instant Submission Queue ReleaseMarch 2022February 2025Allow3521YesNo
17691621Cooperative Group ArraysMarch 2022February 2025Allow3511NoNo
17687839VIRTUALIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PREVENTING MEMORY CRASH OF SAMEMarch 2022November 2024Allow3210YesNo
17684362Computer System Execution Environment Builder ToolMarch 2022August 2024Allow3000NoNo
17682323EDGE UTILITY SYSTEM WITH DISTRIBUTED LEDGER VERIFICATION FOR DYNAMIC AGGREGATION OF EDGE RESOURCESFebruary 2022January 2025Allow3510NoNo
17681309CHAIN SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL-BASED PROCESSING IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTFebruary 2022October 2024Allow3110NoNo
17636366METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL EXECUTION OF SMART CONTRACT, AND MEDIUMFebruary 2022February 2025Allow3610NoNo
17674442DISTRIBUTED EDGE COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR VEHICLESFebruary 2022June 2024Allow2800NoNo
17650979CONTAINER SCHEDULING FOR EXECUTING DYNAMIC WORKLOADS IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTSFebruary 2022March 2025Abandon3710NoNo
17668959USING A NANOSERVICE TO INFORM AN EXTERNAL JOB SERVICE OF A JOB STATUS OF A MICROSERVICEFebruary 2022June 2025Allow4010NoNo
17581946ON-DEMAND CLUSTERS IN CONTAINER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTJanuary 2022May 2025Allow4010NoNo
17576676TEST CONTROLLER SECURELY CONTROLLING A TEST PLATFORM TO RUN TEST APPLICATIONSJanuary 2022April 2023Allow1510NoNo
17562994DEVICE VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY LAYERDecember 2021June 2023Allow1800NoNo
17560142TEAMING OF SMART NICSDecember 2021October 2024Allow3410NoNo
17556690DYNAMIC ROUTING OF WORKLOADS TO ACCELERATOR RESOURCESDecember 2021August 2024Allow3210NoNo
17527923Method and Device for Process Data SharingNovember 2021January 2025Allow3820YesNo
17519395FPGA ACCELERATION FOR SERVERLESS COMPUTINGNovember 2021April 2023Allow1730YesYes
17518069SHARING GLOBAL VARIABLES BETWEEN ADDRESSING MODE PROGRAMSNovember 2021April 2025Allow4210YesNo
17453233INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODNovember 2021December 2024Abandon3710NoNo
17515031GEO-SPATIAL WORKLOAD SCHEDULING IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSOctober 2021April 2022Allow510YesNo
17513679EFFICIENT OPTIMIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT AND EXECUTIONOctober 2021April 2024Allow3000NoNo
17512002DYNAMIC GENERATION AND PRESENTATION OF LOAD RECORDS FOR LOAD ALLOCATIONOctober 2021July 2024Allow3210YesNo
17606451APPLICATION CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2021August 2024Allow3410NoNo
17509956Migrating Workloads Using Active Disaster RecoveryOctober 2021May 2024Allow3110NoNo
17506368DIRECTED INTERRUPT VIRTUALIZATION WITH FALLBACKOctober 2021August 2023Allow2210NoNo
17605050VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM CONTROL DEVICE, VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM CONTROL METHOD, AND VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM CONTROL PROGRAMOctober 2021March 2024Allow2900NoNo
17451481POST HOC IMAGE AND VOLUME REVIEW OF SHORT-LIVED LINUX CONTAINERSOctober 2021May 2023Allow1900NoNo
17503097TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANNOTATING PROCESS AND USER INFORMATION FOR NETWORK FLOWSOctober 2021February 2023Allow1640YesNo
17488019MANAGING PROXY VIRTUAL MACHINESSeptember 2021February 2024Allow2900NoNo
17486056TASK EXECUTION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAMESeptember 2021July 2024Allow3410YesNo
17484947MEMORY ALLOCATION IN A RAY TRACING SYSTEMSeptember 2021August 2024Allow3530NoNo
17478730PARTITIONING DATA ACROSS SHARED PERMISSIONED DATABASE STORAGE FOR MULTIPARTY DATA RECONCILIATIONSeptember 2021August 2024Allow3520YesNo
17478866WORKFLOW RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT WITH DISTRIBUTED CONTROL AND NETWORKED SERVICE INVOCATIONS HAVING SEPARATE LOGICAL AND PHYSICAL ENDPOINT IDENTIFIERSSeptember 2021February 2024Allow2900NoNo
17473428PIPELINE PARALLEL COMPUTING USING EXTENDED MEMORYSeptember 2021August 2024Allow3520YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SUN, CHARLIE.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
5
Examiner Affirmed
5
(100.0%)
Examiner Reversed
0
(0.0%)
Reversal Percentile
5.7%
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
18
Allowed After Appeal Filing
9
(50.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
9
(50.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
78.7%
Higher 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, 50.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner SUN, CHARLIE - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner SUN, CHARLIE works in Art Unit 2196 and has examined 487 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 92.6%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 23 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner SUN, CHARLIE's allowance rate of 92.6% places them in the 79% 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 SUN, CHARLIE receive 1.31 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 18% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by SUN, CHARLIE is 23 months. This places the examiner in the 85% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +6.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SUN, CHARLIE. This interview benefit is in the 33% 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, 29.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 56% 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 32.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 47% 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, 22.2% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 28% 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 70.6% of appeals filed. This is in the 57% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 50.0% 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, 19.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 10% 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 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 53% 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 3.5% of allowed cases (in the 76% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.

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

    Important Disclaimer

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