Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18431445 | RRC RELEASE AFTER SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION COMPLETION | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18520582 | METHOD AND DEVICE IN UE AND BASE STATION FOR RADIO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | November 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18553541 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, NETWORK DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | September 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18553191 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18551712 | TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING TRANSMISSION OF A PLURALITY OF CHANNELS | September 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18549162 | BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUES USING RANDOM-BASED PARAMETER SELECTION AT RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACES | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18547131 | CONFIGURING A SIDELINK RESOURCE POOL | August 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18362623 | PAUSING AND RESUMING SKIPPING OF CONTROL CHANNEL MONITORING | July 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18273759 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING TRANSPORT BLOCK SIZE | July 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18355953 | Techniques for Multi-Access Point Joint Sounding | July 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18353438 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | July 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18352076 | TERMINAL, BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL REPETITION | July 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18350332 | CONFIGURATION AND SIGNALING FOR UL NOMA OPERATIONS | July 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18344151 | PDCCH BLIND DETECTION LIMITING METHOD, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18334792 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING USAGE LIMITS FOR A GROUP OF USER EQUIPMENT BASED ON NETWORK SLICE ADMISSION CONTROL AND POLICY AND CHARGING CONTROL | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18332664 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING RESOURCES FOR PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSION, TERMINAL DEVICE AND NETWORK DEVICE | June 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18255650 | Data Transmission Method and Apparatus for Pusch | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18144176 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHANNEL MONITORING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | May 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18312842 | VIRTUALIZED DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM | May 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18249104 | MULTICAST/BROADCAST SERVICE FOR RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL IDLE/INACTIVE USER EQUIPMENT ON NEW RADIO UU INTERFACE | April 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18248600 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PDCCH) MONITORING ON OVERLAPPING PDCCH MONITORING OCCASIONS | April 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18030066 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PDCCH) REPETITIONS | April 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18129658 | TRANSPORT BLOCK OVER MULTIPLE SLOTS FOR DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS | March 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18183829 | HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST CODEBOOK INTERACTION | March 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18023215 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING CROSS CARRIER SCHEDULING OF NR SL | February 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18172778 | TWO-STAGE PDCCH WITH DYNAMIC DCI SIZE INDICATION | February 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18170249 | LOCATION INFORMATION PROVISION FOR NARROWBAND INTERNET OF THINGS USER EQUIPMENT | February 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17960754 | APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE A DEVICE IN AN ACCESS NETWORK TO SHARE INFORMATION WITH A DEVICE IN A CORE NETWORK | October 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17939572 | CELL RESELECTION RECOGNITION BY A TERMINAL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | September 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 41 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17802835 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REPETITION OF UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL | August 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16849287 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR CONTROLLING INTERFERENCE FROM NEIGHBORING CELLS | April 2020 | January 2021 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16751467 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE | January 2020 | May 2021 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16578447 | CONTEXTUAL GENERATION OF EPHEMERAL NETWORKS | September 2019 | March 2021 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16552163 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK INTERWORKING | August 2019 | April 2021 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16417752 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE | May 2019 | November 2019 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16323831 | A Method For Determining A Sequence Of Events, A Determination Device For Determining A Sequence Of Events, And A Providing Device | February 2019 | April 2020 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15917284 | BARREL COMPACTOR SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE | March 2018 | October 2019 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15750823 | INTELLIGENT AGENT SYSTEM INCLUDING TERMINAL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | February 2018 | October 2019 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15726006 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING STAR NETWORK/MESH NETWORK OF TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (TDMA)/SINGLE CHANNEL PER CARRIER (SCPC) INTEGRATED SATELLITE COMMUNICATION | October 2017 | May 2019 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15640331 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | June 2017 | June 2019 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15518536 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | April 2017 | January 2020 | Allow | 33 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15452978 | SMART METER SYSTEM COMMUNICATION METHODS | March 2017 | January 2019 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15393317 | TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A TERMINAL COMPUTING DEVICE AND A WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE | December 2016 | February 2019 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15365460 | NETWORK TOPOLOGY OF HIERARCHICAL RING WITH RECURSIVE SHORTCUTS | November 2016 | July 2017 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15301813 | DEVICE AND METHOD THAT USES BASE STATION FREQUENCY BAND AS A SECONDARY COMPONENT CARRIER OF CARRIER AGGREGATION | October 2016 | January 2019 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14541743 | System and Method for Speed Frame Exchange | November 2014 | May 2017 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14540375 | NARROWBAND SIGNAL TRANSPORT SUB-SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM | November 2014 | February 2017 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14143120 | FAULT-RESILIENT BROADCAST, MULTICAST, AND UNICAST SERVICES | December 2013 | December 2016 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 13718379 | Server-Side Load Balancing Using Parent-Child Link Aggregation Groups | December 2012 | March 2017 | Allow | 51 | 3 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 12684676 | DYNAMIC CONNECTIVITY DETERMINATION | January 2010 | July 2012 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12650080 | ASSIGNMENT CONSTRAINT MATRIX FOR ASSIGNING WORK FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES TO MULTIPLE SINKS | December 2009 | October 2012 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12545228 | ROUTER DEVICE AND SCALABILITY IMPROVEMENT METHOD FOR USE THEREIN | August 2009 | August 2012 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12483952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENCY-BASED PACKET CLASSIFICATION | June 2009 | September 2012 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12447677 | SELECTIVE SESSION INTERCEPTION METHOD | April 2009 | September 2012 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12167562 | MESSAGE SUBSTITUTION RESPONSE SYSTEM | July 2008 | May 2010 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 11612547 | MIGRATION OF A VIRTUAL ENDPOINT FROM ONE VIRTUAL PLANE TO ANOTHER | December 2006 | May 2010 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 11550079 | INDEPENDENT DRIVE ENCLOSURE BLADES IN A BLADE SERVER SYSTEM WITH LOW COST HIGH SPEED SWITCH MODULES | October 2006 | April 2010 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 11493887 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK AND TUNNEL GATEWAY WITH MULTIPLE OVERLAPPING, REMOTE SUBNETS | July 2006 | February 2010 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 11445390 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVEYING BACKHAUL LINK INFORMATION FOR INTELLIGENT SELECTION OF A MESH ACCESS POINT | May 2006 | July 2011 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 11262664 | PSUEDO WIRE MERGE FOR IPTV | October 2005 | July 2012 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 11262665 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAYER 2 FAST RE-CONFIGURATION IN A ROUTING BRIDGE NETWORK | October 2005 | July 2012 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 11208056 | STATE INFORMATION AND ROUTING TABLE UPDATES IN LARGE SCALE DATA NETWORKS | August 2005 | May 2012 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 11208219 | MAIN STATION AND SUBSTATION IN A NETWORK AND A METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A NETWORK | August 2005 | November 2009 | Allow | 51 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner ZHAO, WEI.
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.
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, 40.0% 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 ZHAO, WEI works in Art Unit 2479 and has examined 33 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.
Examiner ZHAO, WEI'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.
On average, applications examined by ZHAO, WEI receive 2.27 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 64% 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 ZHAO, WEI is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 60% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by ZHAO, WEI. This interview benefit is in the 14% 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.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 30.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 61% 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 40.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 61% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 160.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 91% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 87.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 81% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 57.1% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 9.1% of allowed cases (in the 92% 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 21% 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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