USPTO Examiner STEINLE ANDREW J - Art Unit 2497

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18770585CONSENT DATA PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE AND OPERATIONJuly 2024February 2025Allow800NoNo
18756274SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENABLING BLOCKCHAIN-BASED BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMSJune 2024February 2025Allow810NoNo
18667910SYSTEM FOR SECURING VERIFICATION KEY FROM ALTERATION AND VERIFYING VALIDITY OF A PROOF OF CORRECTNESSMay 2024May 2025Allow1210NoNo
18658487COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY WITH DIGITAL TWINSMay 2024March 2025Allow1010YesNo
18648914FLEXIBLE FORMAT ENCRYPTIONApril 2024March 2025Allow1110YesNo
18638766AUTHENTICATION BYPASS INFRASTRUCTUREApril 2024November 2024Allow700YesNo
18626043COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING SHARES OF DIGITALLY SIGNED DATAApril 2024November 2024Allow700NoNo
18583677METHOD FOR COMPILING FROM A HIGH-LEVEL SCRIPTING LANGUAGE TO A BLOCKCHAIN NATIVE SCRIPTING LANGUAGEFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210YesNo
18428770SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING A PUBLIC DEVICE TO A PRIVATE DEVICE WITH PRE-INSTALLED CONTENT MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONSJanuary 2024August 2024Allow700YesNo
18411698METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION OF NETWORKED DATA TRANSACTIONSJanuary 2024December 2024Allow1110NoNo
18403295Method And System For Improving Coupling And Cohesion Of At Least One Educational ProgramJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1210YesNo
18536736Automated Identification of Malware Families Based on Shared EvidencesDecember 2023August 2024Allow800YesNo
18521868COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR MULTI-LINK SECURED RETRANSMISSIONSNovember 2023November 2024Allow1220NoNo
18521004COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR MULTI-LINK SECURED RETRANSMISSIONSNovember 2023August 2024Allow800YesNo
18521981RAPID DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS ON BLOCKCHAINNovember 2023November 2024Allow1210YesNo
18508857STRUCTURED ENCRYPTION RULES ENGINENovember 2023June 2025Allow1900NoNo
18506542CONTEXT PROFILING FOR MALWARE DETECTIONNovember 2023September 2024Allow1010YesNo
18290127METHOD FOR SECURING THE USE OF SOFTWARENovember 2023May 2025Allow1900YesNo
18499681SECURE DIGITAL FINGERPRINT KEY OBJECT DATABASENovember 2023November 2024Allow1210YesNo
18496315PLAINTEXT INTEGRITY PROTECTION MECHANISMOctober 2023January 2025Allow1530YesNo
18492618AUTHENTICATION TRANSLATIONOctober 2023March 2025Allow1710NoNo
18490824COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RECEIVING DEVICEOctober 2023June 2025Allow2000YesNo
18381260Device, System, and Method for Protecting Machine Learning (ML) Units, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Units, Large Language Model (LLM) Units, and Deep Learning (DL) UnitsOctober 2023June 2025Allow2010NoNo
18488292STEGANOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENCODING OF BIOMETRIC TEMPLATE INFORMATION ON A CARDOctober 2023August 2024Allow1010NoNo
18380780Real Time Channel Affinity DerivationOctober 2023May 2025Allow1900NoNo
18380645COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING A DECENTRALISED PROTOCOL FOR THE RECOVERY OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC ASSETSOctober 2023December 2024Allow1420YesNo
18483318MANAGING PRIVILEGE DELEGATION ON A COMPUTER DEVICEOctober 2023July 2024Allow910NoNo
18479493System and method for validating an interaction using an agreement keyOctober 2023June 2025Allow2000NoNo
18373516System and Method of Controlling Access to a Document FileSeptember 2023October 2024Allow1200YesNo
18367386SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USER IDENTITYSeptember 2023May 2024Allow800YesNo
18244705DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, DATA DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DATA DISTRIBUTION METHODSeptember 2023May 2025Allow2000NoNo
18239891DYNAMIC LENGTH SECURITY IN THE PHYSICAL LAYERAugust 2023April 2025Allow2000NoNo
18446886SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENABLING BLOCKCHAIN-BASED BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMSAugust 2023April 2024Allow810NoNo
18361736COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC USER PROFILEJuly 2023October 2024Allow1520NoNo
18360254DATA OBFUSCATION AND PROTECTION IN A WEB3 ENVIRONMENTJuly 2023May 2025Allow2200NoNo
18224346METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AND MANAGING USER CONFIGURABLE OBJECTS AND FUNCTIONS ON DISTRIBUTED LEDGER NETWORKSJuly 2023January 2025Allow1800NoNo
18223956PRACTICAL ITEMIZED ENCRYPTION FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC ERASURE (PIECE)July 2023February 2025Allow1900NoNo
18222951SECURE INITIALIZATION VECTOR GENERATIONJuly 2023March 2024Allow800YesNo
18220494SAS SOLUTION TO AUTOMATICALLY CONTROL DATA FOOTPRINTJuly 2023August 2024Allow1410NoNo
18348872General-Purpose Lightweight Hash Processing Method and System and Storable MediumJuly 2023April 2025Allow2100NoNo
18216246ENCRYPTED SEARCHJune 2023March 2024Allow900YesNo
18213242COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY WITH DIGITAL TWINSJune 2023February 2024Allow700YesNo
18208796USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND UNMANNED DELIVERY SYSTEM BASED ON USER AUTHENTICATIONJune 2023September 2024Allow1510NoNo
18328994RESHAPING DATA STRUCTURES FOR HOMOMORPHIC COMPUTATIONS USING MULTIPLICATION BY IDENTITY ELEMENTSJune 2023June 2025Allow2510YesNo
18328579Computer and Network Interface Controller Securely Offloading Encryption Keys and Underlay IPsec Encryption Processing to the Network Interface ControllerJune 2023March 2025Allow2100NoNo
18316091DYNAMIC AND VERIFIABLE SEARCHABLE ENCRYPTION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON UPDATABLE ENCRYPTION AND BLOCKCHAINMay 2023April 2025Allow2300NoNo
18035265METHOD FOR PROCESSING ENCRYPTED DATAMay 2023April 2025Allow2310YesNo
18142316AUTOMATED SECURITY CERTIFICATE TECHNIQUESMay 2023April 2025Allow2300NoNo
18140073FLEXIBLE FORMAT ENCRYPTIONApril 2023December 2023Allow800YesNo
18138972INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMApril 2023March 2025Allow2300NoNo
18305719FULL PARALLELIZATION AND ENABLEMENT OF RANDOM ORDER COMPUTATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASHESApril 2023June 2025Allow2510NoNo
18138323THRESHOLD DIGITAL SIGNATURE METHOD AND SYSTEMApril 2023May 2024Allow1310NoNo
18305889SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING BINARY CODE FOR MALWARE CLASSIFICATION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUESApril 2023April 2024Allow1210YesNo
18136751SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING A PUBLIC DEVICE TO A PRIVATE DEVICE WITH PRE-INSTALLED CONTENT MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONSApril 2023October 2023Allow600NoNo
18134276SYSTEM FOR SECURING VERIFICATION KEY FROM ALTERATION AND VERIFYING VALIDITY OF A PROOF OF CORRECTNESSApril 2023February 2024Allow1010NoNo
18298602SAFE AND SECURE COMMUNICATIONApril 2023May 2025Allow2510YesNo
18129051SYNCHRONOUSLY EVALUATING WEB REQUESTS IN A WEB BROWSER USING ASYNCHRONOUS INFORMATION SERVICESMarch 2023February 2025Allow2300NoNo
18190308SIDE-CHANNEL RESISTANT MULTIPLICATIVELY MASKED ENCRYPTION ENGINE WITH ZERO-VALUE ATTACK DETECTIONMarch 2023April 2025Allow2410NoNo
18182973METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING COUPLING AND COHESION OF AT LEAST ONE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMarch 2023February 2025Allow2310NoNo
18182700Privacy-Preserving Image DistributionMarch 2023August 2023Allow500YesNo
18180078USING A TREE STRUCTURE TO SEGMENT AND DISTRIBUTE RECORDS ACROSS ONE OR MORE DECENTRALIZED, ACYCLIC GRAPHS OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASH POINTERSMarch 2023January 2025Allow2200YesNo
18177568POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY SIDE CHAINMarch 2023August 2024Allow1810NoNo
18176239METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING COUPLING AND COHESION OF AT LEAST ONE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMFebruary 2023October 2023Allow700YesNo
18175192SECURE DIGITAL FINGERPRINT KEY OBJECT DATABASEFebruary 2023July 2023Allow500YesNo
18114054IDENTIFYING GROUP MEMBERSHIP THROUGH DISCHARGE MACAROON ACCESS TOKENSFebruary 2023January 2024Allow1120YesNo
18112630PROCESS-SPECIFIC NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL BASED ON TRAFFIC MONITORINGFebruary 2023September 2023Allow700YesNo
18172298Use of Semantically Segmented FilenamesFebruary 2023November 2024Allow2100NoNo
18170502SPURIOUS-DATA-BASED DETECTION RELATED TO MALICIOUS ACTIVITYFebruary 2023January 2025Allow2300NoNo
18110277USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND UNMANNED DELIVERY SYSTEM BASED ON USER AUTHENTICATIONFebruary 2023October 2023Allow800YesNo
18110000STEGANOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENCODING OF BIOMETRIC TEMPLATE INFORMATION ON A CARDFebruary 2023June 2023Allow400YesNo
18168062TRANSPORT LAYER PROTOCOL STATE HANDLING FOR BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL (BGP) PROCESSESFebruary 2023March 2025Allow2510YesNo
18105117ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DELEGATING GENERATION OF HOMOMORPHIC ROTATION KEY TO SERVER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAMEFebruary 2023April 2025Allow2610NoNo
18101977METHOD FOR COMPILING FROM A HIGH-LEVEL SCRIPTING LANGUAGE TO A BLOCKCHAIN NATIVE SCRIPTING LANGUAGEJanuary 2023November 2023Allow1020YesNo
18159355Platform for Management of User DataJanuary 2023December 2023Allow1120YesNo
18158064SECURITY TOKEN VALIDATIONJanuary 2023August 2023Allow710NoNo
18157387Multi-Factor Message AuthenticationJanuary 2023December 2023Allow1100YesNo
18085493SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLOCKING PHISHING ATTEMPTS IN COMPUTER NETWORKSDecember 2022April 2023Allow410NoNo
18082395AUTHENTICATION TRANSLATIONDecember 2022May 2024Allow1720YesNo
18009385MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEMDecember 2022February 2025Allow2710NoNo
18062891SAS SOLUTION TO AUTOMATICALLY CONTROL DATA FOOTPRINTDecember 2022March 2023Allow400YesNo
18062126SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING USER ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO A RESOURCE PRESENTED BY A WEB BROWSERDecember 2022April 2025Allow2810YesNo
18061291METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISTRIBUTION OF A PRODUCT IN A COMPUTER NETWORK AND SYSTEMDecember 2022July 2023Allow810YesNo
18060460HISTORICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR RISK MITIGATION IN ONLINE ACCESS CONTROLNovember 2022October 2024Allow2300NoNo
17982293SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USER IDENTITYNovember 2022April 2023Allow500YesNo
17979880SECURE CONTENT SHARINGNovember 2022July 2023Allow810NoNo
18048477AUTOMATIC DEVALUATION OF COMPROMISED DATAOctober 2022October 2024Allow2400NoNo
17920473Resource Obtaining Method and System, Server, and Storage MediumOctober 2022April 2025Allow3020YesNo
17968136NATIVE MULTI-TENANT ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE SYSTEMOctober 2022September 2024Allow2300NoNo
18045800COMPUTER METHOD AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR IDENTITY MANAGEMENTOctober 2022February 2025Allow2810NoNo
17957390CONVEYANCE OF STIR/SHAKEN ATTESTATION LEVELS USING CARRIER CODESeptember 2022December 2024Allow2710NoNo
17931511PROVIDING SERVICE TIER INFORMATION WHEN VALIDATING API REQUESTSSeptember 2022November 2024Allow2610YesNo
17940966GENERATING SECURITY PERMISSIONS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ASSETS IN CLOUD PLATFORMSSeptember 2022September 2024Allow2410NoNo
17930333SECURING A CONTAINER ECOSYSTEMSeptember 2022August 2024Allow2301NoNo
17908231FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM, FRAUD DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAMAugust 2022June 2024Allow2200YesNo
17802634METHOD, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SECURING FUNCTIONALITY OF A USER DEVICE CONNECTED TO A LOCAL NETWORKAugust 2022December 2024Allow2710NoNo
17888963SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENABLING BLOCKCHAIN-BASED BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMSAugust 2022July 2023Allow1110YesNo
17797447A PRIVACY PRESERVING DATA STORING METHOD AND A PRIVACY PRESERVING DATA STORING SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A TRAVEL BEHAVIOR OF ONE OR MORE USERS OF MOBILITY-AS-A-SERVICE (MAAS) TRANSPORTATION SERVICESAugust 2022September 2024Allow2510NoNo
17816607COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC USER PROFILEAugust 2022June 2023Allow1010NoNo
17861079AUTHENTICATION TRANSLATIONJuly 2022September 2022Allow200YesNo
17791127DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING AUTHENTICATION MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMJuly 2022September 2024Allow2610NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner STEINLE, ANDREW J.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
4
Examiner Affirmed
4
(100.0%)
Examiner Reversed
0
(0.0%)
Reversal Percentile
7.0%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 0.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
16
Allowed After Appeal Filing
12
(75.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
4
(25.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
93.5%
Higher than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

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, 75.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner STEINLE, ANDREW J - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner STEINLE, ANDREW J works in Art Unit 2497 and has examined 720 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 91.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 24 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner STEINLE, ANDREW J's allowance rate of 91.0% places them in the 74% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by STEINLE, ANDREW J receive 1.20 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 20% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by STEINLE, ANDREW J is 24 months. This places the examiner in the 71% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +13.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by STEINLE, ANDREW J. This interview benefit is in the 55% 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, 40.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 91% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 34.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 43% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 28.6% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 29% 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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 76.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 64% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 46.2% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows above-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. The mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) provides an opportunity for reconsideration.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 36.1% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 31% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.4% of allowed cases (in the 57% 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 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.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • RCEs are effective: This examiner has a high allowance rate after RCE compared to others. If you receive a final rejection and have substantive amendments or arguments, an RCE is likely to be successful.

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

Important Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

No Guarantees: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the statistics presented above. Patent prosecution statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data and are subject to data quality limitations, processing errors, and changes in USPTO practices over time.

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