Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19267465 | Ensuring Model Context Protocol Server Integrity for Artificial Intelligence Agents | July 2025 | November 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18902476 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION BASED NETWORKING | September 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18788290 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING GEOSPATIAL GRID REGION NAME INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOL SYSTEM | July 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18785796 | ACCESS NETWORK DEVICE SELECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS | July 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18762933 | MOBILE PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS AND RELATED APPLICATIONS | July 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18759298 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A REGIONALLY CONTIGUOUS PROXY SERVICE | June 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18745387 | RESTRICTED GROUP CONTENT COLLECTION | June 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18675124 | IN-VEHICLE APPLICATION TRANSFER METHOD AND TERMINAL | May 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18673196 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USER IDENTIFICATION VIA COMMUNITY DETECTION | May 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18666105 | CONTEXT MATCHING RELATED INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | May 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18652558 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONNECTING TO EXTERNAL DEVICES | May 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18635660 | CORRELATING SIMULATED SIGNAL AND SATELLITE DOWNLINK SIGNAL | April 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18625112 | ENHANCED SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (SNMP) CONNECTOR | April 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18624791 | Systems and methods for generating and utilizing lookalike Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) | April 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18620456 | ASSIGNING A MONEY SIGN TO A USER | March 2024 | May 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18605346 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18443574 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA INGESTION AND GENERATION OF TASK RECOMMENDATIONS IN TASK FACILITATION SERVICES | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18438605 | PERSONALIZED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHATBOT | February 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18682303 | Technique for Storing Cookie Information in a Core Network Domain of a Wireless Communication Network | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18433882 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING PLAYING A GAME BASED ON RFID | February 2024 | July 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18421860 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING SYSTEM FOR SERVICE REQUESTS | January 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18415011 | GENERATING AND PROVIDING IN-MEETING COACHING FOR VIDEO CALLS | January 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18407892 | Response Prediction for Electronic Communications | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18399245 | Automatic Obfuscation of Sensitive Information in Notifications Presented While an Electronic Device is not Being Attended to by an Authorized User | December 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18398000 | CONTENT COLLABORATION SYSTEM HAVING ACCESS CONTROLS FOR PUBLIC ACCESS TO DIGITAL CONTENT | December 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18393180 | OPTIMIZING GROUP REQUESTS FOR A NETWORK-BASED SERVICE | December 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18572762 | SESSION INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18545940 | ROUTING MODE AND POINT-OF-PRESENCE SELECTION SERVICE | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18542369 | USER ATTRIBUTE VALIDATION BASED ON LOCATION REQUESTS | December 2023 | June 2025 | Abandon | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18535127 | SERVER, SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD | December 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18529899 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ACCESS TO A SUBSCRIPTION-RESTRICTED SERVICE OF AN APPLICATION | December 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18527089 | RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM WITH RAPID LEARNING FROM USER FEEDBACK | December 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18526782 | TECHNIQUES TO CONTROL QUALITY OF SERVICE FOR END-TO-END PATHS IN A COMPUTE ENVIRONMENT | December 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18519756 | LOCATION-BASED ASSIGNMENT OF CLIENT DEVICE DATA | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18515617 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SERVICE MESH TRAFFIC IN A DISTRIBUTED KUBERNETES MULTI-CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18512852 | Targeted Content Based on Detected Traits | November 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18561013 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO LOCATIONS | November 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18509651 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC USER PROFILE SWITCHING | November 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18505350 | APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATING CONSULTING BASED ON WEB FOR CLOUD MIGRATION | November 2023 | June 2025 | Abandon | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18503075 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING IDENTIFIER OF UE IN EDGE COMPUTING SERVICE | November 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18386837 | LLM-BASED NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING USING EXPERT-CURATED RECIPES | November 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18500300 | MANAGING NETWORK SERVICE LEVEL THRESHOLDS | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18499187 | CONFIGURING AD HOC CONTENT SERVERS BASED ON SERVER LOAD LIMITS | October 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18497459 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF SPLIT-RENDERING IN 5G NETWORKS | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18497576 | PRIVACY PRESERVING CENTROID MODELS USING SECURE MULTI-PARTY COMPUTATION | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18497271 | AUGMENTING PARSERS BY ADDED PARSER STAGES | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18385365 | Multi-Content Delivery Network Load Balancing over Content Steering Server | October 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18373121 | GUIDING CONFIGURATION OF A SWITCH STACK | September 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18472455 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE REQUEST | September 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471242 | System and Method for Payment Hardware System Module (HSM) Integration | September 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18470398 | COMPUTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER MANAGEMENT METHOD | September 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18469160 | METHOD FOR LOCATION ATTESTATION FOR A DEVICE CONNECTED TO A NETWORK | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18454248 | DIGITAL ASSISTANT FEEDBACK AND STATUS UPDATES | August 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18452238 | ENHANCED DATA PRIVACY AND RECOMMENDATIONS | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18448635 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A REGIONALLY CONTIGUOUS PROXY SERVICE | August 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18366547 | WEB BROWSING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, IMAGE GENERATION SERVER | August 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18361202 | Profile-Based Conferencing Application Configuration | July 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18360099 | CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A NETWORK APPLICATION BASED ON NETWORK INFORMATION AND APPLICATION BEHAVIOR | July 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18224925 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BOT-GENERATED INTERACTIONS | July 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18219349 | STREAMING COMPLEX ENDPOINT EVENTS | July 2023 | July 2025 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17774194 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, NETWORK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | June 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18215682 | PROVIDING CLOUD MATURITY SCORES FOR IMPROVING CLOUD COMPUTING HEALTH | June 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18215406 | System and Method for Streaming Content from Multiple Servers | June 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18343010 | DYNAMICALLY PROGRAMMING CLASS OF SERVICE CONFIGURATIONS FOR NETWORK DEVICES | June 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18339335 | PROFILE-BASED NATURAL LANGUAGE MESSAGE GENERATION AND SELECTION | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18338993 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE BRAND CONTINUITY | June 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18328160 | Providing Synchronous Content and Supplemental Experiences | June 2023 | February 2025 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18204661 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK DEVICE MANAGEMENT USING DEVICE CLUSTERING | June 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 18325681 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USER IDENTIFICATION VIA COMMUNITY DETECTION | May 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18201998 | PROXY STATE SIGNALING FOR NETWORK OPTIMIZATIONS | May 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18195653 | Response Prediction for Electronic Communications | May 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18251123 | Distributed Processing System and Method | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18305016 | EFFICIENT UPDATE MECHANISM IN IOT EVENT DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES | April 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18302990 | IP ADDRESS ALLOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | April 2023 | February 2025 | Abandon | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18302629 | FAULT RECOVERY PLAN DETERMINING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18300184 | Management and Prioritization of Media Items Downloading | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18299822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLOUD BASED MESSAGING BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DATABASE INFRASTRUCTURE | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18031587 | MESSAGE FORWARDING METHOD, MESSAGE FORWARDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | April 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18193547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FEATURE AGGREGATION FOR TRACKING ANONYMOUS VISITORS | March 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18190713 | ADDRESSABLE RESOURCE INDEX EVENTS FOR CMAF AND DASH MULTIMEDIA STREAMING | March 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18182869 | MULTICHANNEL MESSAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | March 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18116116 | OPTIMIZING MULTI-USER REQUESTS FOR A NETWORK-BASED SERVICE | March 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18112787 | Application Hosting In A Distributed Application Execution System | February 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 24 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18171459 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS | February 2023 | February 2025 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18167585 | GROUP CONTACT LISTS GENERATION | February 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18099983 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR REPRESENTING TUNNELS AND STRETCHED NETWORKS IN A VIRTUAL ENTITY PATHWAY VISUALIZATION | January 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18100420 | CLUB MEMBER CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES IN A MULTI-CLUB ENVIRONMENT | January 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18153263 | USER ATTRIBUTE VALIDATION BASED ON LOCATION REQUESTS | January 2023 | May 2023 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18094115 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING SYSTEM FOR PLANNED SERVICE REQUESTS | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18014096 | MANAGING QUALITY OF MONITORING MODELS FOR COLLECTION OF PERFORMANCE AND/OR SENSING DATA | December 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18091301 | CONTROLLED DELIVERY OF ACTIVITY SIGNALS FOR PROMOTION OF USER ENGAGEMENT OF SELECT USERS IN COMMUNICATION SESSIONS | December 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18087513 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE FOR ISSUING AND REPLYING TO MULTIMEDIA CONTENT | December 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 18080559 | PERSONALIZED DEVICE ROUTINES | December 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057718 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING A REVERSE-ENTRY PROCESS | November 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18057224 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF ERROR CODING FAULTS FROM MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS | November 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057066 | CORRELATING SIMULATED SIGNAL AND SATELLITE DOWNLINK SIGNAL | November 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17972014 | TRUSTED SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT TO INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER SUBSCRIBERS | October 2022 | August 2023 | Abandon | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17956406 | Implementing a Queuing System In a Distributed Network | September 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17935663 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A REGIONALLY CONTIGUOUS PROXY SERVICE | September 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17935026 | USER ATTRIBUTE VALIDATION BASED ON LOCATION REQUESTS | September 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner CHOU, ALAN S.
With a 38.5% 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, 35.9% 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 CHOU, ALAN S works in Art Unit 2451 and has examined 552 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 73.4%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 36 months.
Examiner CHOU, ALAN S's allowance rate of 73.4% places them in the 37% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by CHOU, ALAN S receive 2.53 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 74% 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 CHOU, ALAN S is 36 months. This places the examiner in the 36% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +13.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by CHOU, ALAN S. This interview benefit is in the 51% 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, 21.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 26% 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.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 28.1% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 40% 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, 48.9% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 42% 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 54.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 25% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 29.5% 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, 54.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 55% 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 3.6% of allowed cases (in the 82% 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 19% 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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