Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211129 | Anticipatory Authentication for Account-specific Artificial Intelligence Agents | May 2025 | November 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18903407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING THE SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE OF STUDENTS | October 2024 | January 2026 | Abandon | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18892553 | GALOIS HASH AUTHENTICATION-BASED CIRCUIT | September 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18811046 | NETWORK SECURITY WITH SERVER NAME INDICATION | August 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18749296 | COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OVER DISTRIBUTED DATA | June 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 15 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18732204 | ESTABLISHING AND MANAGING TRUSTED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENTITIES OF A SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE (SAAS) PLATFORM | June 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18652031 | Systems and methods for performing split tunneling via different tunnels | May 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18622416 | TRANSPARENT WEB BROWSING RECORDER | March 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18601122 | CONTROL TOWER FOR LINKING ACCOUNTS TO APPLICATIONS | March 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18689112 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA ACCESS REQUESTS | March 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18586802 | CONTROL TOWER FOR UNLINKING APPLICATIONS FROM ACCOUNTS | February 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18435909 | UNIFIED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY PLATFORMS | February 2024 | October 2025 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18421697 | CONTROL TOWER FOR LINKING ACCOUNTS TO APPLICATIONS | January 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18397866 | MACHINE-DRIVEN CROWD-DISAMBIGUATION OF DATA RESOURCES | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18395691 | UNLINKING APPLICATIONS FROM ACCOUNTS | December 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18531975 | OPEN ID CONNECT ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | December 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18530616 | DETECTING ABNORMAL DATA ACCESS BASED ON DATA SIMILARITY | December 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18508861 | NETWORK SECURITY GATEWAY | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18493015 | POLICY-BASED APPLICATION OF A POINT-TO-POINT SECURITY PROTOCOL TO A NETWORK FLOW FROM A SOURCE APPLICATION | October 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18491141 | SECURING BLUEPRINTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN EDGE DEVICES | October 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18375446 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROOFS FOR SEAMLESS SINGLE SIGN-ON (SSO) TO CLOUD SERVICES BASED ON ON-PREMISES AUTHENTICATION | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18371517 | ADAPTIVE PRIVILEGE ADJUSTMENT FOR LEAST PRIVILEGE ACCESS | September 2023 | November 2025 | Abandon | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18551909 | APPLYING SECURITY POLICIES BASED ON ENDPOINT AND USER ATTRIBUTES | September 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18468310 | Authentication and Binding of Multiple Devices | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18279575 | DATA PROTECTION WITH ONLINE ACCOUNT VALIDATION | August 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18337128 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AND BLOCKING USER ACCESS USING WEB APPLICATION PROXY | June 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18204729 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME DIGITAL AUTHORIZATION AND MANAGEMENT | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18197940 | CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | May 2023 | September 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18197501 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CUSTOM CODE IN A DATA COMPUTING PLATFORM | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18195698 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER AUTHENTICATION USING AN IMAGED MACHINE-READABLE IDENTITY DOCUMENT | May 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18307303 | Disaster recovery for cloud-based monitoring of internet access | April 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18307313 | Disaster recovery for cloud-based private application access | April 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18306962 | System and method for managing metaverse instances | April 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18297405 | FAST CONVOLUTION ALGORITHM FOR COMPOSITION DETERMINATION | April 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18194575 | SYSTEM FOR SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND STORING VERIFIED DIGITAL IDENTITIES | March 2023 | March 2024 | Abandon | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18190488 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SECURED INTERFACE TO A BLOCKCHAIN BASED NETWORK | March 2023 | November 2024 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18026618 | ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND ACCESS CONTROL PROGRAM | March 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18180930 | MALICIOUS DNS SERVER DETECTION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | March 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18173021 | ONLINE SERVICE PROVIDER (OSP) PRODUCING RESOURCE FOR RELATIONSHIP INSTANCE, PREPARING DIGITAL EXHIBIT THAT REPORTS THE RESOURCE, STORING IT, INPUTTING ACCESS INDICATOR ABOUT IT, AND SENDING THE ACCESS INDICATOR | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18112276 | SYSTEM AGGREGATOR AND PROJECT ROLE VERIFICATION SYSTEM | February 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18159731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FASTER BEHAVIORAL RETRAINING | January 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18084326 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION BASED AUTHENTICATION | December 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17937325 | QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17956587 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING KEYS | September 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17946858 | ADAPTIVE ACCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT | September 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 36 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17944473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURITY TO LEGACY DEVICES | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17939370 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, VOLUME ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17823718 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION-BASED TRIGGERING | August 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17802515 | Communication of Sensitive Data in Restricted Data Channel | August 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17891442 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONBOARDING AND MANAGING APPLICATIONS OVER NETWORKS | August 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17820166 | GRANULAR SECURE USER ACCESS TO PRIVATE RESOURCES | August 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17882244 | Electronic Devices, Methods, and Systems for Temporarily Precluding Sharing of Media Content to Protect User Privacy | August 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17793901 | ISSUING VERIFIABLE PAIRWISE CLAIMS | July 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17813408 | MANAGING VERIFICATION REPOSITORIES TO FACILITATE REAL-TIME SERVICING OF VERIFICATION QUERIES | July 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17864803 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SECURED INTERFACE TO A BLOCKCHAIN BASED NETWORK | July 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17860517 | Identifying and Securing Unencrypted Data in a Production Environment | July 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17852858 | Communication Method and Apparatus | June 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17747366 | THREAT DETECTION FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS | May 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17718565 | INSTRUMENTING APPLICATIONS TO PREVENT ABUSE BY PRIVILEGED USERS | April 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17719117 | NETWORK SECURITY WITH SERVER NAME INDICATION | April 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17718902 | SYSTEM FOR OFF-NETWORK ACCESS TO RESOURCES USING A REMOTE CLIENT | April 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17658796 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED TESTING FOR DOMAIN BLOCKING ASSESSMENT | April 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17708311 | DETECTING ABNORMAL DATA ACCESS BASED ON DATA SIMILARITY | March 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 17 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17763768 | DATA RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD | March 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17761256 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORYCOMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | March 2022 | February 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17686922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONBOARDING AND MANAGING APPLICATIONS OVER NETWORKS | March 2022 | June 2022 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17681398 | THIRD-PARTY GATEWAY FOR SECURITY AND PRIVACY | February 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17672500 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A CONTENT SECURITY POLICY FOR A NETWORK RESOURCE | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17650947 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES | February 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17649552 | Detection of Multi-Killchain Alerts | January 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17568102 | AUTHENTICATION OF NETWORK REQUEST | January 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 50 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17568045 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC MASKING OF DATA IN A NETWORK | January 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17562150 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM USING SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION AND PORT IDENTIFICATION IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH DRIVE SUBSYSTEM | December 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17543399 | CROSS-BLOCKCHAIN INTERACTION SYSTEMS | December 2021 | April 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17537607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LIMITED ACCESS TO DATA | November 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17537403 | SECURE FAILSAFE APPARATUS | November 2021 | August 2025 | Abandon | 45 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17525302 | HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS INVOLVING VOICE-ENABLED DEVICES IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | November 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17523208 | CONTROL TOWER FOR LINKING ACCOUNTS TO APPLICATIONS | November 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17523083 | System for Securing Electronic Personal User Data | November 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17510325 | UNLINKING APPLICATIONS FROM ACCOUNTS | October 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17605581 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | October 2021 | January 2023 | Abandon | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17503692 | SCALABLE CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES | October 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17488157 | MACHINE-DRIVEN CROWD-DISAMBIGUATION OF DATA RESOURCES | September 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17409218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREDENTIALS DISTRIBUTION | August 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17395321 | WORK SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH DEVICE SHARING AND DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PLATFORM APPLICATION | August 2021 | March 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17443497 | HARDWARE SECURE ELEMENT, RELATED PROCESSING SYSTEM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND DEVICE | July 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17383227 | SECURE COMPUTE DEVICE HOUSING WITH SENSORS, AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE SAME | July 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17362914 | DATA PROCESSING METHODS, APPARATUSES, DEVICES, AND MEDIA | June 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17350062 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD | June 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17341555 | REST API provided by a local agent to detect network path of a request | June 2021 | September 2025 | Allow | 51 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17324240 | INFORMATION SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TRUSTED MACHINES FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M) SECURITY AND VALIDATION | May 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17306800 | TRANSPARENT WEB BROWSING RECORDER | May 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 32 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17231060 | Securing local network traffic using cloud computing | April 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 49 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17227324 | System and method to detect and prevent Phishing attacks | April 2021 | October 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17220204 | Password Reset for Multi-Domain Environment | April 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 40 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17201353 | MONITORING AND REPORTING CONNECTION ATTEMPTS IN A NETWORK | March 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17198828 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING IDENTITY CHECKS IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM | March 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17186596 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS USING ELECTRONIC TOKENS AND TOKENIZED VEHICLES | February 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 48 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17171225 | Multi-Computer Processing System for Dynamically Evaluating and Controlling Authenticated Credentials | February 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17170024 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING UNAUTHORIZED NETWORK ACCESS | February 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner WANG, HARRIS C.
With a 35.4% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success 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, 34.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting reconsideration.
✓ 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 WANG, HARRIS C works in Art Unit 2439 and has examined 521 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 69.7%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 40 months.
Examiner WANG, HARRIS C's allowance rate of 69.7% places them in the 32% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by WANG, HARRIS C receive 2.98 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 86% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues more office actions than most examiners, which may indicate thorough examination or difficulty in reaching agreement with applicants.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by WANG, HARRIS C is 40 months. This places the examiner in the 24% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +18.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by WANG, HARRIS C. This interview benefit is in the 61% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 20.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 22% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show lower effectiveness with this examiner compared to others. Consider whether a continuation application might be more strategic, especially if you need to add new matter or significantly broaden claims.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 14.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 15% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 39.1% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 36% 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 54.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 26% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 20.7% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 39.7% 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's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 2.1% of allowed cases (in the 75% percentile). Per MPEP § 1302.04, examiner's amendments are used to place applications in condition for allowance when only minor changes are needed. This examiner frequently uses this tool compared to other examiners, indicating a cooperative approach to getting applications allowed. Strategic Insight: If you are close to allowance but minor claim amendments are needed, this examiner may be willing to make an examiner's amendment rather than requiring another round of prosecution.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 18% 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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