Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250276 | FRAMEWORK FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE BLOCKCHAINS | June 2025 | December 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18926549 | REDUCED DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF VIRTUALIZED SOFTWARE SERVICES | October 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18889946 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INCREASING SECURITY OF A VIRTUAL MACHINE | September 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18886790 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND READABLE MEDIUM AND COMPUTING DEVICE | September 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 11 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18749419 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION OPTIMIZATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | June 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18744947 | VIRTUALIZATION EXTENSION MODULES | June 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18667008 | FRAMEWORK FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE BLOCKCHAINS | May 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18710850 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES INCLUDING THE SAME | May 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18641999 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTIPLE TRANSACTIONS CONVERTED FROM SINGLE TRANSACTION IN PROCESSOR, AND PROCESSOR FOR PERFORMING SAME | April 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18628102 | SCHEDULING OF A PLURALITY OF GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS | April 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18589529 | MANAGING A CLOUD SERVICE | February 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18425985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REQUEST ISOLATION | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18544263 | PROVISIONING OF NODE BASED ON DOWNSIZING OR MIGRATION | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18515027 | Critical Section Speedup Using Help-Enabled Locks | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18504744 | GUEST CLUSTER DEPLOYED AS VIRTUAL EXTENSION OF MANAGEMENT CLUSTER IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18500070 | DATA PROCESSING UNIT FOR STREAM PROCESSING | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18453298 | DYNAMIC BATCHING FOR INFERENCE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMER-BASED GENERATION TASKS | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18339923 | DIRECT ACCESS STORAGE FOR PERSISTENT SERVICES IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18204588 | Client-Aware Container Image Optimization | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18316209 | INTEGRATING VIRTUALIZATION AND HOST NETWORKING | May 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18302707 | MAPPING VIRTUAL PROCESSOR CORES TO HETEROGENEOUS PHYSICAL PROCESSOR CORES | April 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18295678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF DATA PLANE VIRTUAL MACHINES | April 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18185463 | Dynamic Control of eBPF Program Execution in an Operating System Kernel | March 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18111331 | MANAGING CONTAINERS ACROSS MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18170375 | DATA PROTECTION FOR SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM DATA | February 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18166728 | FAST DEVICE DISCOVERY FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18160731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE PERIPHERAL DEVICE CONTROL VIRTUALIZATION | January 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18099899 | MULTI-USER VIRTUAL MACHINE PLATFORM | January 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18091263 | TASK SCHEDULING FOR MACHINE-LEARNING WORKLOADS | December 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18083924 | CONFIGURATION OF AN SIL SIMULATION OF A CONTROL UNIT RUNNING ON A COMPUTER | December 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18011336 | CLUSTER DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE SCHEDULING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17984943 | SECURE NETWORKING ENGINE FOR A TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | November 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17923979 | ON-DIE COMPUTER APPARATUS | November 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17976916 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR CLOUD RESOURCES WITH A LIGHTWEIGHT COLLECTOR | October 2022 | November 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17964768 | IMPLEMENTING COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN A CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT | October 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17955826 | WEB-BASED WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT WITH ASYNCHRONOUS WORKLOAD EXECUTION AND REAL-TIME USER FEEDBACK | September 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17800040 | ACCELERATING COMPUTATIONS IN A PROCESSOR | August 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17886885 | REMOTE EDGE VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT | August 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17871992 | LOAD BALANCING OVER TUNNEL ENDPOINT GROUPS | July 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17850573 | REPLACING STALE CLUSTERS IN A CLUSTER POOL | June 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17744207 | Multitenant, Scalable, and Loosely Coupled Simulation Service to Improve Access, Efficiency, Model Sharing, and Reproducibility | May 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17736721 | DISABLING OF MEMORY ALLOCATORS | May 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17734847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING OF COMPUTATIONAL MODULES OF A COMPUTATIONAL WORKFLOW | May 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17709859 | RESOURCE TEAMING OPTIMIZATION FOR RESOURCE PLANNING | March 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17710571 | CLOUD-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF NETWORK FUNCTIONS | March 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17697338 | CONFLICT DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) DEVICE SCHEDULING | March 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17654427 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FUNCTION CALL AND VARIABLE ACCESS BASED RELAXED BACKWARD SLICING | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17691519 | WEIGHTED AVAILING OF CLOUD RESOURCES | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17686235 | Systems and Methods for Integrating Third Party Services with a Digital Assistant | March 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 47 | 3 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17637840 | Resource Scheduling Method, Apparatus and System | February 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17670661 | VIRTUALIZING HARDWARE COMPONENTS THAT IMPLEMENT Al APPLICATIONS | February 2022 | February 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17649543 | RESOURCE TUNING WITH USAGE FORECASTING | January 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17589686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VM RECOVERY ON S3 COMPATIBLE OBJECT STORAGE | January 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17648184 | PROPAGATING JOB CONTEXTS TO A JOB EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT | January 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17537624 | Migrating Workloads To A Preferred Environment | November 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 35 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17533304 | REALTIME INDUCTIVE APPLICATION DISCOVERY BASED ON DELTA FLOW CHANGES WITHIN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS | November 2021 | February 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17531778 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE RELEASE OF APPLICATION PROGRAM IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS | November 2021 | December 2024 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17529854 | TASK SCHEDULING METHOD, AND COMPUTING DEVICE AND APPLICATION PROCESSOR USING THE SAME | November 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17510184 | Systems and Methods for a Process Checklist Generator | October 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17508225 | UPDATING VIRTUAL IMAGES OF COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS | October 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17506017 | Risk Assessment of a Container Build | October 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 39 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17505367 | RESOURCE AVAILABILITY-BASED WORKFLOW EXECUTION TIMING DETERMINATION | October 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17357693 | Application-Aware Management of a Storage System | June 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17333975 | Autonomous Vehicle Operated with Safety Augmentation | May 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17195187 | COMPUTING TASK SCHEDULING IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM UTILIZING EFFICIENT ATTRIBUTED PRIORITY QUEUES | March 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17178983 | CROSS-CONTAINER DELEGATION | February 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17144896 | MULTI-SCALE EXPONENTIAL-SMOOTHING FORECASTER FOR TIME SERIES DATA | January 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 49 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17130657 | VIRTUALIZATION FOR AUDIO CAPTURE | December 2020 | May 2025 | Abandon | 52 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17102401 | Mobile Mini-cloud system enabling user subscription to cloud service | November 2020 | June 2024 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17100548 | DATA BUFFERING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2020 | July 2024 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16121552 | SYSTEM RESOURCE COMPONENT UTILIZATION | September 2018 | May 2019 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16056670 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TEMPERATURE-AWARE TASK SCHEDULING | August 2018 | December 2019 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15985111 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING AN APPLICATION BEING EXECUTED IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL | May 2018 | April 2020 | Allow | 23 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15872039 | Systems and methods for efficiently expediting execution of tasks in isolated environments | January 2018 | February 2020 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15829806 | FLOW MANAGEMENT AND FLOW MODELING IN NETWORK CLOUDS | December 2017 | January 2020 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15827546 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR EXECUTING DOCUMENT READING PROCESSING | November 2017 | December 2019 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15825343 | THRESHOLDING TASK CONTROL BLOCKS FOR STAGING AND DESTAGING | November 2017 | June 2019 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15811718 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR UNTRUSTED PROGRAMS | November 2017 | April 2018 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15259207 | SMART REDUCE TASK SCHEDULER | September 2016 | March 2019 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15219071 | SUPPORT OF NON-TRIVIAL SCHEDULING POLICIES ALONG WITH TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES | July 2016 | April 2019 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15219055 | SUPPORT OF NON-TRIVIAL SCHEDULING POLICIES ALONG WITH TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES | July 2016 | June 2019 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15161407 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING MAINTENANCE PROCESSING ON COMPUTERS COUPLED VIA A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MESH OR TORUS CONNECTION IN A NETWORK | May 2016 | March 2019 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15158544 | AUTOMATED WORKLOAD ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION PROCESS | May 2016 | December 2018 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15088606 | OPTIMIZATION OF PARALLEL PROCESSING USING WATERFALL REPRESENTATIONS | April 2016 | April 2018 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14917621 | ALLOCATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES TO PHYSICAL MACHINES THROUGH DOMINANT RESOURCE ASSISTED HEURISTICS | March 2016 | April 2018 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14961650 | SINGLETON COORDINATION IN AN ACTOR-BASED SYSTEM | December 2015 | July 2017 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 14948277 | SELECTING PROCESSOR MICRO-THREADING MODE | November 2015 | May 2017 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14937999 | SYSTEM RESOURCE COMPONENT UTILIZATION | November 2015 | June 2018 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 14938011 | Selecting Processor Micro-Threading Mode | November 2015 | May 2017 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14869159 | ACCELERATOR FUNCTIONALITY MANAGEMENT IN A COHERENT COMPUTING SYSTEM | September 2015 | May 2017 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14836516 | ACCELERATOR FUNCTIONALITY MANAGEMENT IN A COHERENT COMPUTING SYSTEM | August 2015 | March 2017 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14833181 | SCALING PAST THE JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE THREAD LIMIT | August 2015 | April 2017 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14827398 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM MIGRATION METHOD | August 2015 | May 2017 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14827344 | DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE HARDWARE QUEUES FOR DISPATCHING JOBS TO A PLURALITY OF HARDWARE ACCELERATION ENGINES | August 2015 | March 2017 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14655407 | RESOURCE CONSUMPTION OPTIMIZATION | June 2015 | April 2017 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14717691 | PREFERENTIAL ALLOCATION OF PROCESSORS FOR STATESAVE IN A STORAGE CONTROLLER | May 2015 | May 2017 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14438783 | VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION | April 2015 | March 2017 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 14249782 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING A CAPACITY OF A RESOURCE | April 2014 | April 2016 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 14196406 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, JOB SCHEDULING METHOD, AND JOB SCHEDULING PROGRAM | March 2014 | September 2015 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14171634 | VIRTUAL MACHINE-GUEST DRIVEN STATE RESTORING BY HYPERVISOR | February 2014 | November 2015 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner TANG, KENNETH.
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.
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, 66.7% 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.
⚠ 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 TANG, KENNETH works in Art Unit 2197 and has examined 114 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 97.4%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 33 months.
Examiner TANG, KENNETH's allowance rate of 97.4% places them in the 88% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by TANG, KENNETH receive 1.54 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 28% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by TANG, KENNETH is 33 months. This places the examiner in the 47% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +3.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by TANG, KENNETH. This interview benefit is in the 25% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 36.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 82% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 61.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 87% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 71% 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 75.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 64% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 66.7% 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, 50.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 47% 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's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 13% 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 16% 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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