USPTO Examiner DAO TUAN C - Art Unit 2198

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18440615INTEGRATING APPLICATIONS USING CONTAINERIZED INTEGRATION FLOWFebruary 2024September 2025Allow1930YesNo
18414211CLASSIFICATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF SEQUENTIAL EVENT DATAJanuary 2024October 2025Allow2110YesNo
18232381UPGRADING VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE THAT EXECUTES WITH REDUNDANCYAugust 2023January 2026Allow2900NoNo
18346147SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VENDOR ALERTS FROM ANALYZED THIRD PARTY SOURCESJune 2023March 2026Allow3210YesNo
18335987FEDERATED DISCOVERY CONTROLLERJune 2023March 2026Allow3310NoNo
18143685INTEGRATED APPLICATION SYSTEM ARCHITECTUREMay 2023March 2026Allow3410NoNo
18304072ACTIONING SYSTEM FOR OBSERVABILITY PLATFORMSApril 2023February 2026Allow3410YesNo
18110794RESIDUAL QUANTIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORKSFebruary 2023September 2025Allow3110YesNo
18157566PREDICTING THE NEXT BEST COMPRESSOR IN A STREAM DATA PLATFORMJanuary 2023November 2025Allow3410NoNo
18006191METHOD OF PROCESSING AGREEMENT TASKJanuary 2023October 2025Allow3310NoNo
18012744CONTROLLER FOR A VEHICLE, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MOTOR VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A CONTROLLERDecember 2022February 2026Abandon3710NoNo
18069740Virtual Dental Restoration Insertion VerificationDecember 2022January 2026Allow3750YesNo
18058050CLASSIFICATION OF EVENTS BY PATTERN RECOGNITION IN MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES DATANovember 2022October 2025Allow4510NoNo
17963897WORKLOAD SCHEDULING USING QUEUES WITH DIFFERENT PRIORITIESOctober 2022August 2025Allow3410YesNo
17958095HOST FLEET MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATIONS IN A CLOUD PROVIDER NETWORKSeptember 2022October 2025Allow3710NoNo
17940990TRANSMITTING METRIC DATA BETWEEN TENANCIESSeptember 2022February 2026Allow4120NoNo
17894705HOST DEVICE WITH PATH MASKING BETWEEN SOFTWARE STACK LAYERS TO FACILITATE SCALING OF SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE SYSTEMAugust 2022November 2025Allow3920NoNo
17890850SYSTEM CALL TRACE RECONSTRUCTIONAugust 2022September 2025Allow3710YesNo
17854816NOTIFICATION DELAY AND AUTO-DISMISS FUNCTIONALITYJune 2022September 2025Allow3940YesNo
17851593IMPROVED MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR BUSY VIRTUAL MACHINE GUESTSJune 2022August 2025Allow3810YesNo
17806856SYSTEM FOR USING ALWAYS IN-MEMORY DATA STRUCTURES IN A HETEROGENEOUS MEMORY POOLJune 2022January 2026Allow4330NoNo
17741801GROUPING REQUESTS TO REDUCE INTER-PROCESS COMMUNICATION IN MEMORY SYSTEMSMay 2022January 2026Allow4570NoNo
17736312ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD WITH MODEL CO-LOCATIONMay 2022December 2025Allow4330YesNo
17709469LOCKING AND SYNCHRONIZATION FOR HIERARCHICAL RESOURCE RESERVATION IN A DATA CENTERMarch 2022November 2025Abandon4320NoNo
17701665MANAGING NOTIFICATIONS ON ELECTRONIC DEVICESMarch 2022February 2026Abandon4720YesYes
17641347METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEMarch 2022January 2026Allow4640YesNo
17587251COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS USING INTERNAL SERVICE PLUGINS AND EXTERNAL SERVICE PLUGINSJanuary 2022September 2025Allow4430NoNo
16454856INTEGRATING TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEM INTERFACES WITH EVENT-DRIVEN POLYGLOT RUNTIME MODULESJune 2019August 2020Allow1310NoNo
16383775REGISTER FILE WRITE USING POINTERSApril 2019April 2021Allow2420YesNo
16381603Dynamic Infrastructure Management and ProcessingApril 2019March 2021Allow2310YesNo
16357751SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR COMMON MEMORY PROGRAMMINGMarch 2019July 2020Allow1640YesNo
16287055DETECTING MOTION-SENSOR DATA ANOMALIESFebruary 2019April 2021Allow2600NoNo
16223172EFFECTIVE SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION OF SCREEN INFORMATION SHARED AMONG INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUSESDecember 2018September 2020Allow2110NoNo
16065929METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT TO USER ACCORDING TO USER'S PREFERENCE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFORJune 2018June 2020Allow2420YesNo
16012202CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A CANOPYJune 2018January 2020Allow1910YesNo
15800290OPAQUE MESSAGE PARSINGNovember 2017December 2019Allow2520NoNo
15591280INTEGRATING TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEM INTERFACES WITH EVENT-DRIVEN POLYGLOT RUNTIME MODULESMay 2017March 2019Allow2310NoNo
15455187EVENT LOOP OPTIMIZATION THROUGH EVENT ORDERINGMarch 2017September 2019Allow3020NoNo
15371524METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIBERNATION OPERATION IN MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTSDecember 2016July 2019Allow3120YesNo
15124692Edge Treatment ProcessSeptember 2016December 2018Allow2710YesNo
15193336INDUSTRIAL CONTROLLER AUTOMATION INTERFACEJune 2016May 2017Allow1120YesNo
15189132SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR COMMON MEMORY PROGRAMMINGJune 2016March 2019Allow3220YesNo
15188429HEURISTICS-BASED PROTOCOL LABELING FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMSJune 2016April 2017Allow1010NoNo
15184299INDUSTRIAL CONTROLLER AUTOMATION INTERFACEJune 2016March 2017Allow920YesNo
15163948INDUSTRIAL CONTROLLER AUTOMATION INTERFACEMay 2016February 2019Allow3330YesNo
15139918PROVIDING DISTRIBUTED ARRAY CONTAINERS FOR PROGRAMMING OBJECTSApril 2016September 2016Allow400NoNo
15016604Automatic Mutual ExclusionFebruary 2016July 2016Allow500NoNo
14884146ELECTRICAL GRID CONTROL SYSTEM, ELECTRICAL GRID CONTROL METHOD, AND POWER CONVERSION APPARATUSOctober 2015February 2018Allow2810NoNo
14873518BEHAVIOR-BASED DISTRACTING APPLICATION DETECTION ON VEHICLESOctober 2015September 2017Allow2440YesNo
14781685INFLOW CONTROL APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMSOctober 2015July 2018Allow3421NoNo
14872976CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A CANOPYOctober 2015March 2018Allow3010YesNo
14810170RDMA (REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS) DATA TRANSFER IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTJuly 2015April 2017Allow2110NoNo
14753111APPLICATION INSTANCE STAGINGJune 2015August 2016Allow1310YesNo
14743367APPLICATION INSTANCE STAGINGJune 2015May 2017Allow2340YesNo
14727940LOCALE AWARE PLATFORMJune 2015November 2016Allow1820YesNo
14724394MULTIPLE PROCESSOR MODES EXECUTION METHOD AND APPARATUS INCLUDING SIGNAL HANDLINGMay 2015April 2017Allow2320NoNo
14722049VIRTUALIZED COMMUNICATION SOCKETS FOR MULTI-FLOW ACCESS TO MESSAGE CHANNEL INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN CPUMay 2015February 2017Allow2120YesNo
14717562Application Activation FrameworkMay 2015August 2016Allow1510NoNo
14712685COMMAND-BASED STORAGE SCENARIO PREDICTIONMay 2015September 2017Allow2930YesNo
14400740MANUFACTURING PROCESS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT DEVICENovember 2014January 2018Allow3910NoNo
14483947SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING USER NOTIFICATIONS FOR SMALL COMPUTER DEVICESSeptember 2014September 2017Allow3680YesNo
14382360SEQUENCE-PROGRAM DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICESeptember 2014August 2017Allow3510NoNo
14475166Machining MethodSeptember 2014March 2017Allow3000NoNo
14370127DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING CONSTRUCTION MACHINERYJuly 2014February 2017Allow3110NoNo
14370171FACILITY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, FACILITY MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAMJuly 2014April 2017Allow3410NoNo
14369420CANAL CONTROL SYSTEMJune 2014September 2017Allow3920YesNo
14369244GRID CONTROLLER FOR USE IN SMART GRID SYSTEM, SMART GRID SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SMART GRID SYSTEMJune 2014February 2017Allow3210NoNo
14368943METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING USER LOADS IN COMBINATION WITH TIME INFORMATIONJune 2014March 2017Allow3310NoNo
14368313ESTIMATING AND PREDICTING WELLBORE TORTUOSITYJune 2014December 2017Allow4230NoNo
14358826DEMAND RESPONSE METHOD AND DEMAND RESPONSE CONTROL APPARATUSMay 2014January 2017Allow3210YesNo
14280560CODE SERVICE FOR LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT DISPATCHMay 2014May 2017Allow3640NoYes
14225801Oscillator-Based Path Planning for Machining of a Pocket Shape in WorkpieceMarch 2014October 2016Allow3110NoNo
14174502USING DEEP LINKS TO RESTORE INTERACTIVE STATE OF A WEB PAGEFebruary 2014November 2016Allow3320NoNo
13929002OPTIMIZING ERROR PARSING IN AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTJune 2013March 2017Allow4530YesNo
13755146DYNAMIC RUN TIME ALLOCATION OF DISTRIBUTED JOBSJanuary 2013January 2017Allow4830YesYes
13531116API Redirection for Limited Capability Operating SystemsJune 2012March 2017Allow5780YesNo
13087759MANAGING CACHE READER AND WRITER THREADS IN A PROXY SERVERApril 2011February 2012Allow1000YesNo
12256688ENCODING OBJECT STATESOctober 2008April 2012Allow4210NoNo
12171609ACTIVITY MONITORING WITHOUT ACCESSING A PROCESS OBJECTJuly 2008April 2012Allow4510NoNo
11557160METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY SPECIFYING A FORMAT FOR DATA PROVIDED BY A WEB SERVICE INVOCATIONNovember 2006November 2010Allow4920NoNo
11557184SHORTCUT IP COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SOFTWARE ENTITIES IN A SINGLE OPERATING SYSTEMNovember 2006June 2011Allow5530NoNo
11407499WINSOCK APISApril 2006May 2010Allow4910NoNo
10877125ADAPTIVE SERVICE FOR HANDLING NOTIFICATIONS AND SYNCHRONIZING DIRECTORIES OF A FILE SYSTEMJune 2004January 2012Allow6040YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner DAO, TUAN C..

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
1
Examiner Affirmed
0
(0.0%)
Examiner Reversed
1
(100.0%)
Reversal Percentile
92.9%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 100.0% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
2
Allowed After Appeal Filing
2
(100.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
0
(0.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
96.5%
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, 100.0% 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 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner DAO, TUAN C. - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner DAO, TUAN C. works in Art Unit 2198 and has examined 56 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 100.0%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner DAO, TUAN C.'s allowance rate of 100.0% places them in the 95% 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 DAO, TUAN C. receive 1.91 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 46% 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 DAO, TUAN C. is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 59% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by DAO, TUAN C.. This interview benefit is in the 13% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 28.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 50% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 54.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 80% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 200.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 94% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. Before filing a full appeal brief, strongly consider requesting a PAC. The PAC provides an opportunity for the examiner and supervisory personnel to reconsider the rejection before the case proceeds to the PTAB.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 66.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 48% 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 below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 40.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 29% 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 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 7.1% of allowed cases (in the 85% 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:

  • Consider after-final amendments: This examiner frequently enters after-final amendments. If you can clearly overcome rejections with claim amendments, file an after-final amendment before resorting to an RCE.
  • Request pre-appeal conferences: PACs are highly effective with this examiner. Before filing a full appeal brief, request a PAC to potentially resolve issues without full PTAB review.

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.