USPTO Examiner ABDULLAH SAAD AHMAD - Art Unit 2431

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18663351QUANTUM-BASED ADAPTIVE DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR SECURING NETWORK FILESMay 2024February 2026Allow2100YesNo
18429163DATA ACCESSING WITH A VIRTUAL SANDBOX DATABASEJanuary 2024September 2025Allow1920YesNo
18501756PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING CARD READER DEVICES CONTAINERIZED EXECUTION OF CODENovember 2023September 2025Allow2320YesNo
18459556RISK MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR USER ACCOUNT AND RELATED APPARATUSSeptember 2023February 2026Abandon3020NoNo
18231677DATA INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHODAugust 2023July 2024Allow1110NoNo
18354980SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USER TRACKING BY DIGITAL HANDPRINTJuly 2023November 2025Abandon2710NoNo
18223884METHOD OF DETECTING SEQUENCE-BASED INTRUSION BY USING DBC FILEJuly 2023March 2026Allow3220YesNo
18037990SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL VIDEO DE-IDENTIFICATIONMay 2023January 2026Allow3210YesNo
18196689ONION ROUTING NETWORK FOR SMART HOMESMay 2023March 2026Allow3420YesNo
18307500Network security gateway onboard an aircraft to connect low and high trust domains of an avionics computing infrastructureApril 2023November 2025Allow3020YesNo
18185771SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEDERATED PRIVACY MANAGEMENTMarch 2023February 2025Allow2330YesNo
18183479AUTOMATED LEAST PRIVILEGE ASSIGNMENTMarch 2023November 2025Allow3220YesNo
18170585SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VIRTUAL SANDBOX DATABASEFebruary 2023January 2024Allow1110NoNo
18111152SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CONTEXT-AWARE PAGERANKSFebruary 2023February 2026Allow3620YesNo
18152313METHODS OF OPERATING ON DATA IN A FULLY HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION SYSTEM USING IN-SITU PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY AND RELATED CIRCUITSJanuary 2023August 2025Allow3120YesNo
17900478Data Integrity System For Transmission Of Incoming And Outgoing DataAugust 2022July 2023Allow1010NoNo
17712952SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR SECURE AND PRIVATE DATA VALUATION AND TRANSFERApril 2022October 2025Allow4220YesNo
17666481FEDERATED LEARNING PLATFORM AND MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORKFebruary 2022March 2025Abandon3810NoNo
17626556SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHODS FOR SECURE EXCHANGE OF TEXT MESSAGESJanuary 2022July 2024Abandon3010NoNo
17646857SECURITY POLICY ENFORCEMENT AND VISIBILITY FOR NETWORK TRAFFIC WITH MASKED SOURCE ADDRESSESJanuary 2022April 2024Allow2820YesNo
17620711METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONSDecember 2021June 2025Allow4220YesNo
17553576DETECTING MALICIOUS EMAIL ADDRESSES USING EMAIL METADATA INDICATORSDecember 2021December 2024Allow3610YesNo
17546199METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ALL-OR-NOTHING TRANSFORM (AONT) FOR INCREASING BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRITYDecember 2021August 2024Allow3210NoNo
17541155TRUSTED AND CONNECTED MULTI-DOMAIN NODE CLUSTERSDecember 2021October 2024Allow3520YesNo
17609659METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PUBLIC KEY MANAGEMENT USING A BLOCKCHAINNovember 2021October 2024Allow3510YesNo
17508188METHODS FOR TRACING MALICIOUS ENDPOINTS IN DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH APPLICATION BACK ENDS USING TLS FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUESOctober 2021March 2024Allow2900NoNo
17483815U2F PHYSICAL TOKEN-BASED CENTRALIZED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR IOT DEVICESSeptember 2021February 2025Abandon4120YesNo
17482799METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE COMPUTATION CORRESPONDING TO INSPECTION OF NON-MALICIOUS DATA FLOWSSeptember 2021September 2024Allow3620YesNo
17466037END-TO-END ENCRYPTION FOR MULTIPLE RECIPIENT DEVICESSeptember 2021December 2023Allow2800YesNo
17411630Malware Detection with Multi-level, Ensemble Artificial Intelligence using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks and Natural Language ProcessingAugust 2021November 2023Allow2700YesNo
17387717DOMAIN REPUTATION SYSTEMJuly 2021August 2024Allow3720YesNo
17385444TRANSPARENT SECURITY AND POLICY ENFORCEMENT FOR LOW-CODE ORCHESTRATIONJuly 2021March 2025Abandon4340YesNo
17363558ANTI-PIRACY CONTROL BASED ON BLACKLISTING FUNCTIONJune 2021May 2024Allow3410NoNo
17294253AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AUTEHNTICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAMMay 2021September 2024Abandon4120NoNo
17302219NETWORK SECURITY LAYERApril 2021May 2024Abandon3720NoNo
17229965INFORMATION SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING COMMUNICATIONS FROM DETECTED PHISHING DOMAINSApril 2021April 2024Allow3620YesNo
17229925INFORMATION SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHISHING DOMAIN DETECTIONApril 2021May 2024Allow3720YesNo
17219691SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROUTING DATA USING SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKSMarch 2021September 2023Allow3010NoNo
17213673SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSOR TRUSTWORTHINESSMarch 2021March 2024Allow3630YesNo
17202442REVISION OF ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM TRIGGERED BY POLICIES BASED ON RISKS AND/OR COUNTERMEASURES THEREOFMarch 2021April 2024Allow3730YesNo
17187192MULTI-STAGE ANOMALY DETECTION FOR PROCESS CHAINS IN MULTI-HOST ENVIRONMENTSFebruary 2021December 2023Allow3310NoNo
17154998CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM FOR NETWORK SLICES OF WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKJanuary 2021July 2024Allow4220YesNo
17147891BUILDING AND MAINTAINING CYBER SECURITY THREAT DETECTION MODELSJanuary 2021March 2023Allow2600YesNo
17138205BGP Message Sending Method, BGP Message Receiving Method, and DeviceDecember 2020January 2024Allow3720YesNo
17118090LIGHTWEIGHT INTRUSION DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE NETWORKDecember 2020April 2023Abandon2810NoNo
17117893METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING HARMFUL WEB RESOURCESDecember 2020December 2023Allow3620NoNo
16973596INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION COLLECTION METHOD, MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION PROGRAMDecember 2020September 2024Allow4540YesNo
17107731SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEDERATED PRIVACY MANAGEMENTNovember 2020December 2022Allow2410NoNo
17096376Threat Mapping EngineNovember 2020July 2023Allow3210YesNo
17094002DATA INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHODNovember 2020August 2023Allow3340NoNo
17084454PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING CARD READER DEVICES CONTAINERIZED EXECUTION OF CODEOctober 2020July 2023Allow3320YesNo
17079190Neutralizing Evasion Techniques of Malicious WebsitesOctober 2020March 2025Allow5350YesNo
17072921PROVIDING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR CLASSIFYING DOMAIN NAMES FOR MALWARE DETECTIONOctober 2020July 2023Allow3320YesNo
17065752SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A DGA DOMAIN GENERATION ALGORITHMOctober 2020January 2023Allow2810YesNo
17031776ENHANCED CLOUD-BASED ENTITY REPUTATION SCORINGSeptember 2020March 2023Allow3010YesNo
17016980Dynamic Message Analysis Platform for Enhanced Enterprise SecuritySeptember 2020March 2023Allow3020YesNo
17006070ANOMALY DETECTION AND REMEDIATION UTILIZING ANALYSIS OF STORAGE AREA NETWORK ACCESS PATTERNSAugust 2020June 2023Allow3320NoNo
16984719NETWORK MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK, AND NETWORK SYSTEMAugust 2020March 2023Abandon3210NoNo
16944167OPERATING SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC LOGIN MECHANISM AND AUTOMATIC LOGIN METHODJuly 2020December 2022Allow2910NoNo
16965935KERNEL INTEGRITY PROTECTION METHOD AND APPARATUSJuly 2020March 2024Allow4330YesNo
16935690SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VIRTUAL SANDBOX DATABASEJuly 2020December 2022Allow2910NoNo
16922219AUTOMATED INTELLIGENT DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF CYBER SECURITY THREATSJuly 2020June 2024Allow4740YesNo
16854943AUTOMATIC RANSOMWARE DETECTION AND MITIGATIONApril 2020June 2024Allow5050YesNo
16807055MALWARE INFECTION DETECTION SERVICE FOR IOT DEVICESMarch 2020November 2022Allow3210NoNo
16793825DATA INTEGRITY SYSTEM FOR TRANSMISSION OF INCOMING AND OUTGOING DATAFebruary 2020August 2022Allow3010YesNo
16791416SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS OF PHISHING ATTACKSFebruary 2020May 2024Abandon5140YesNo
16634964INFORMATION SELECTION DEVICE, INFORMATION SELECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUMJanuary 2020March 2023Abandon3820NoNo
16750886CYBER DEFENSE AND RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR BUILDINGSJanuary 2020March 2025Abandon6060NoNo
16729289PHISHING DETECTION USING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORSDecember 2019October 2022Allow3410YesNo
16724487MALWARE INSPECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND MALWARE INSPECTION SUPPORT METHODDecember 2019September 2023Abandon4540NoNo
16724746PACKET METADATA CAPTURE IN A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKDecember 2019November 2025Allow6080YesNo
16714240SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING SECURITY INCIDENTSDecember 2019September 2023Abandon4640YesNo
16595047METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DATA PRIVACY BASED ON CUSTOMIZED COOKIE CONSENTOctober 2019October 2022Allow3620NoNo
16498029INITIALIZATION VECTOR IDENTIFICATION FOR MALWARE DETECTIONSeptember 2019January 2024Abandon5120NoNo
16566653AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AUTHENTICATION KEY DELIVERYSeptember 2019February 2023Allow4100YesNo

Appeals Overview

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Examiner ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD works in Art Unit 2431 and has examined 55 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 78.2%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 36 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD's allowance rate of 78.2% places them in the 46% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD receive 2.11 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 56% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD is 36 months. This places the examiner in the 35% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +26.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD. This interview benefit is in the 73% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 31.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 63% 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 28.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 39% 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 0.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 2% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 14% 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 17% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

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

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