Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18626282 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPATIAL SETTING DETERMINATION DURING A RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE | April 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18614329 | NETWORK USING ASYMMETRIC UPLINK AND DOWNLINK BAUD RATES TO REDUCE CROSSTALK | March 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18416488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TRAINING SIGNAL USING PREDETERMINED BINARY SEQUENCE IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18416491 | WIFI CHANNEL SELECTION AND SUBCHANNEL SELECTIVE TRANSMISSIONS | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18403286 | Communication Device | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18531188 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT USING HIERARCHICAL AND MULTI-SCENARIO GRAPHS | December 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18522412 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS | November 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18473650 | SELF-DRIVEN AND ADAPTABLE MULTI-VBNG MANAGEMENT ORCHESTRATION | September 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18467319 | PREAMBLE PUNCTURING BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18461674 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE DETECTION, SLICE ASSIGNMENT AND BEAM MANAGEMENT | September 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18458352 | EXTENDING COMMUNICATION SERVICES TO A CONSUMPTION DEVICE USING A PROXY DEVICE | August 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 26 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18233207 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR UNIFIED TCI STATE OPERATION | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18366391 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH DETECTORS FOR EXTRANEOUS RECEIVED SIGNALS | August 2023 | October 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18262673 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND METHOD THEREOF | July 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345003 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING RELIABILITY OF CHANNEL QUALITY MEASUREMENTS PROVIDED BY USER EQUIPMENT | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18214799 | PREAMBLE GROUP SELECTION IN RANDOM ACCESS OF WIRELESS NETWORKS | June 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18268492 | TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND BASE STATION | June 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18330232 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | June 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18255743 | CONNECTION DESTINATION SWITCHING CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM | June 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18265169 | DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SSB POSITIONS AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | June 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18325278 | TECHNIQUES FOR INCREASING NARROWBAND PHYSICAL RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL CAPACITY | May 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18317392 | ACTIVE GEO-LOCATION FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEX WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK DEVICES USING ADDITIVE CORRELATION | May 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18313707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO OPTIMIZE CONDITIONAL PSCELL ADDITION AND CHANGE (CPAC) IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | May 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18144710 | SEARCHING FOR CONTROL CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | May 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 25 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18138117 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | April 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18134679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN QUANTUM CONTROLLER MODULES | April 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18248478 | Channel State Measurement Method and Related Device | April 2023 | January 2026 | Abandon | 33 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18132010 | INTELLIGENT CALL HANDLING AND ROUTING | April 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 30 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18130003 | SYSTEM FOR CLOUD-ENABLING A PREMISE PBX | April 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18189796 | TIME DOMAIN PHASE TRACKING FOR COHERENT JOINT COMMUNICATIONS WITH MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION-RECEPTION POINTS | March 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18044246 | TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | March 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18116834 | PILOT PROCESSING METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE | March 2023 | December 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18174705 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING BACKHAUL NETWORK, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS | February 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 18173682 | RECEPTION USING TRANSMISSION SPUR FREQUENCY LOCATIONS | February 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18170178 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS TO ACQUIRE VOICE SERVICES IN 5G SA DEPLOYMENT | February 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18109802 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF PACKET LOSS | February 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166979 | TECHNIQUES FOR SAVING ENERGY IN WIRELESS NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS | February 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166392 | TECHNIQUES FOR CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION REPORTING | February 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 18104914 | Prioritizing Uplink Signals of a Radio Access Technology | February 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18101005 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TRAINING SIGNAL USING PREDETERMINED BINARY SEQUENCE IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18097637 | Coverage Enhancement for Random Access Procedures | January 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18153914 | BASE STATION DEVICE, AND MOBILE STATION DEVICE | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18085424 | SELF-INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN IN-BAND FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | December 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17928094 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | November 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17926339 | BUFFER STATUS REPORT ENHANCEMENT | November 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18055506 | ACTIVATION METHOD FOR BANDWIDTH PART AND RELATED PRODUCTS | November 2022 | November 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18053186 | TIMESLOT MAPPING AND/OR AGGREGATION ELEMENT FOR DIGITAL RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSPORT ARCHITECTURE | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 18051331 | Communication Device | October 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17997208 | OPERATION METHOD OF RELAY UE RELATED TO RELAY ESTABLISHMENT REQUEST IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | October 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17973571 | Adaptive cancellation of asynchronous near-end crosstalk | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17931487 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | September 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17909328 | MULTIPLE CDRX CONFIGURATIONS AND DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION SWITCHING FOR XR TRAFFIC | September 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17898005 | WIFI CHANNEL SELECTION AND SUBCHANNEL SELECTIVE TRANSMISSIONS | August 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17894950 | POWER SOURCE BASED TRANSMISSION CONTROL | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17821201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR URSP-BASED TUNNELING THROUGH FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS | August 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17890935 | VEHICLE PLATFORM, VEHICLE CONTROL INTERFACE BOX, AND AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17799170 | CARRIER CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN A SHARED COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT | August 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17882196 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SL DRX OPERATION IN NR V2X | August 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17816638 | CONCURRENT USAGE AND SCANNING OF WIRELESS CHANNELS FOR DIRECT DFS TO DFS CHANNEL SWITCHING | August 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17796046 | TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | July 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17795700 | DOWNLINK CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17875040 | Method and Terminal for Supporting Voice Service and Data Service Simultaneously | July 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17813979 | REPOSITORY FUNCTION ADDRESS BLOCKING | July 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17870610 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17862925 | SEARCHING FOR CONTROL CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | July 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17811832 | OPTICAL LINK TIME-OF-FLIGHT AND TRAFFIC LATENCY DETERMINATION USING OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER | July 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17861365 | INFORMATION REPORTING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE | July 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 44 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17861029 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | July 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17810260 | RADIO ACCESS NETWORK EVENT TRACING SYSTEM | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17784333 | Managing Service Function Chains | June 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17781546 | Multi-USIM UE Assistance Information with Unavailable Time | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17804847 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT USING HIERARCHICAL AND MULTI-SCENARIO GRAPHS | May 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17750462 | CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17748194 | DATA COLLECTION DEVICE, DATA COLLECTION METHOD, AND DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM | May 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17746762 | REFERENCE SIGNAL WINDOW CONFIGURATION FOR MOBILE NETWORK ENTITIES | May 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17743986 | SEMANTIC ANALYSIS METHOD FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL PROTOCOL BASED ON INDUSTRIAL SIDE-INFORMATION | May 2022 | December 2023 | Abandon | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17662319 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS | May 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
| 17661731 | NEIGHBOR CELL MEASUREMENT WITH POWER SAVING | May 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17733571 | CONTROL ELEMENT FOR ACTIVATION PACKET DUPLICATION OF A DATA BEARER | April 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17725416 | TRANSMIT OPPORTUNITY CONTINUATION TIMEOUT FOR DIRECTIONAL MULTI-GIGABIT NETWORKS | April 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17722765 | REGION-BASED REDIRECTION AND BRIDGING OF CALLS | April 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17720929 | DECODING PATH GENERATION | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17769197 | TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD | April 2022 | January 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17719474 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH ALTERNATIVE PERIODIC CONNECTIVITY MODE | April 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17715704 | GENERATING SYNTHETIC TRANSACTIONS WITH PACKETS | April 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17713536 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING PDCP LAYER PROCESSING QOS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17711943 | COMB OFFSET HOPPING FOR SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSIONS | April 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17708102 | CHANNEL INDICATION SENDING METHOD, CHANNEL SCANNING METHOD, AND APPARATUS | March 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17765245 | UE PANEL COMBINATION-SPECIFIC CORESET CONFIGURATION FOR CELL-FREE MASSIVE MIMO | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17708708 | TECHNIQUES FOR SENSOR-ASSISTED CELL SEARCH MANAGEMENT | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17657324 | ADAPTATION OF COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS FOR A USER EQUIPMENT | March 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17696626 | DATA TRANSMISSION TIME OBTAINING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | March 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17690309 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR URSP-BASED TUNNELING THROUGH FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS | March 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17678042 | METHOD AND DEVICE IN COMMUNICATION NODE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | February 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17670491 | Pilot Tone Design For Distributed-Tone Resource Units In 6GHz Low-Power Indoor Systems | February 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17668933 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATING OVER CONFIGURED GRANT RESOURCES WITH HIGH ROUND TRIP TIMES | February 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17667687 | Controlling Energy Consumption of a Wireless Network Node | February 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17665819 | PACKET PROCESSING METHOD AND FIRST NETWORK DEVICE | February 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17629151 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TIME-DOMAIN BEAM-SWEEPING | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17576618 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | January 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner NGUYEN, STEVEN H D.
With a 22.2% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges 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, 21.2% 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 face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner NGUYEN, STEVEN H D works in Art Unit 2414 and has examined 711 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 82.6%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 28 months.
Examiner NGUYEN, STEVEN H D's allowance rate of 82.6% places them in the 55% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by NGUYEN, STEVEN H D receive 2.15 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 58% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by NGUYEN, STEVEN H D is 28 months. This places the examiner in the 68% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +9.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by NGUYEN, STEVEN H D. This interview benefit is in the 40% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 29.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 58% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 23.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 32% 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.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 20.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 27% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 51.8% of appeals filed. This is in the 22% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 27.6% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 64.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 69% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.1% of allowed cases (in the 50% 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 2.7% of allowed cases (in the 72% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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