Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18751972 | DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF PARAMETER SET USED IN HOT WORD FREE ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT | June 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18643120 | DIALOGUE TRAINING WITH RICH REFERENCE-FREE DISCRIMINATORS | April 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18624869 | WEARABLE SPEECH INPUT-BASED TO MOVING LIPS DISPLAY OVERLAY | April 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18441193 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SPEECH VIDEO AND COMPUTING DEVICE FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD | February 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18542842 | HOME AND BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18540060 | VECTOR QUANTIZER CORRECTION FOR AUDIO CODEC SYSTEM | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18540084 | REDUCED MULTIDIMENSIONAL INDICES COMPRESSION FOR AUDIO CODEC SYSTEM | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18385870 | INTERACTING WITH A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT TO RECEIVE UPDATES | October 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18485830 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING OF A NEURAL NETWORK USING ANOTHER NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTED ON ONE OR MORE SOLID-STATE CHIPS | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18372769 | VOICE-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION REQUESTS AND RESPONSES | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 18474997 | SPEECH CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471365 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING JOBSITE PRODUCTS | September 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18233303 | AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNIZING AND SURFACING IMPORTANT MOMENTS IN MULTI-PARTY CONVERSATIONS | August 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 18362453 | Stereo Signal Encoding Method and Apparatus, and Stereo Signal Decoding Method and Apparatus | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18359173 | HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES FOR UTTERANCE-BASED PLAYLIST SELECTION | July 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18327093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATION OF VOICE INTERACTIVE SERVICES BASED ON USER STATE | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18310638 | Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task and Transfer Learning | May 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18131982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND PRESENTING CONVERSATIONS | April 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18132356 | REAL-TIME SYSTEM FOR SPOKEN NATURAL STYLISTIC CONVERSATIONS WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | April 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18248057 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REDUCING SIGNAL DELAY | April 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18043514 | TEXT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGNING AND TESTING AUDIO CODEC BY USING WHITE NOISE MODELING | February 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18103993 | ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER FOR PERFORMING ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODER FOR PERFORMING DECODING METHOD | January 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18154486 | Multi-Channel Audio Signal Coding Method and Apparatus | January 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18015050 | COMFORT NOISE GENERATION FOR MULTI-MODE SPATIAL AUDIO CODING | January 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18062630 | ADAPTIVE, INDIVIDUALIZED, AND CONTEXTUALIZED TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS AND METHODS | December 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17986793 | METHOD FOR CREATING RULES USED TO STRUCTURE UNSTRUCTURED DATA | November 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18051742 | SEMI-ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER | November 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17922724 | AUDIO WATERMARK TO INDICATE POST-PROCESSING | November 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17921564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS COMBINING SEPARATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF AUDIO SIGNALS | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18047572 | MEDIA SEGMENT PREDICTION FOR MEDIA GENERATION | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17967562 | TRANSCRIPT PARAGRAPH SEGMENTATION AND VISUALIZATION OF TRANSCRIPT PARAGRAPHS | October 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17958887 | IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) MISRECOGNITIONS IN A DECENTRALIZED MANNER | October 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17934029 | DETECTION OF VERACITY OF RESPONSES IN MACHINE COMPREHENSION QUESTION AND ANSWER MODELS | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17948622 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DTX HANGOVER IN AUDIO CODING | September 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17905860 | WIDEBAND ADAPTATION OF ECHO PATH CHANGES IN AN ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLER | September 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17903223 | SEARCH-ENGINE-AUGMENTED DIALOGUE RESPONSE GENERATION WITH CHEAPLY SUPERVISED QUERY PRODUCTION | September 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17756874 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17749892 | DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING VOICE QUERIES | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17748882 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME AND LOW LATENCY SYNTHESIS OF AUDIO USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND DIFFERENTIABLE DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS | May 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 31 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17774765 | APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING AN AUDIO SIGNAL IN A VEHICLE CABIN | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17774460 | Using Video Clips as Dictionary Usage Examples | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17770206 | MAN-MACHINE DIALOGUE MODE SWITCHING METHOD | April 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17715778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING DIALOG MODEL, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17764651 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING LIP SYNC IMAGE | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17694283 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING, TRAINING, AND EVALUATING MODELS, SCENARIOS, LEXICONS, AND POLICIES | March 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17652801 | Mixing Heterogeneous Loss Types to Improve Accuracy of Keyword Spotting | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17589860 | AUTOMATICALLY AUGMENTING AND LABELING CONVERSATIONAL DATA FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | January 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17575700 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING RISK ASSOCIATED WITH A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | January 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17559623 | METHOD OF TRAINING MODEL, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17557245 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATING TO KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODELS | December 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17496238 | REACTIVE VOICE DEVICE MANAGEMENT | October 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17489356 | Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Dialogue Management | September 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17432711 | Method for processing a payment transaction, and corresponding device, system and programs | August 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17432259 | LEARNING TO EXTRACT ENTITIES FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS | August 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17398476 | LEARNING WORD REPRESENTATIONS VIA COMMONSENSE REASONING | August 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17423740 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR TRANSLATING VOICE OR TEXT AND METHOD THEREOF | July 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 37 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17233727 | CONTEXTUAL IMPACT ADJUSTMENT FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | April 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17209995 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION OF CAUSE-EFFECT RELATION FROM DOMAIN SPECIFIC TEXT | March 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17058895 | AUTOMATED ASSISTANT CONTROL OF EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS LACKING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FUNCTIONALITY | November 2020 | September 2024 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17095688 | GAME-THEORETIC INVARIANT RATIONALIZATION OF MACHINE-LEARNING RESULTS | November 2020 | March 2025 | Allow | 52 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17037612 | QUESTION ANALYSIS METHOD, DEVICE, KNOWLEDGE BASE QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | September 2020 | October 2024 | Allow | 49 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16978381 | Ability Classification | September 2020 | November 2024 | Abandon | 51 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16402397 | ESTIMATING PITCH OF HARMONIC SIGNALS | May 2019 | June 2019 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16184763 | ASSISTED FREE FORM DECISION DEFINITION USING RULES VOCABULARY | November 2018 | March 2020 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15800112 | PROCESSING OF SPEECH SIGNALS | November 2017 | September 2019 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15790819 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUALLY CONCATENATING DISPLAY, AURAL, AND VOICE ALERTS | October 2017 | September 2019 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15790511 | Question Urgency in QA System with Visual Representation in Three Dimensional Space | October 2017 | February 2020 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15464957 | INTERACTIVE LOCATION SENSITIVE NETWORK RESPONSE | March 2017 | July 2018 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15463930 | Estimating Pitch of Harmonic Signals | March 2017 | December 2018 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15114648 | METHOD FOR SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF A TEXT | July 2016 | November 2018 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15193874 | VOICE-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION REQUESTS AND RESPONSES | June 2016 | July 2019 | Allow | 37 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 14957655 | TARGETED STORY SUMMARIZATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING | December 2015 | January 2018 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14956450 | GENERATING STRUCTURED QUERIES FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT | December 2015 | May 2019 | Allow | 41 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 14473453 | Assisted Free Form Decision Definition Using Rules Vocabulary | August 2014 | September 2018 | Allow | 48 | 8 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 14469747 | GENERATING LANGUAGE SECTIONS FROM TABULAR DATA | August 2014 | January 2018 | Allow | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14365682 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SUBTITLE INFORMATION | June 2014 | February 2019 | Allow | 56 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
| 14303656 | GENERATING LANGUAGE SECTIONS FROM TABULAR DATA | June 2014 | December 2017 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13921349 | Assisted Free Form Decision Definition Using Rules Vocabulary | June 2013 | January 2019 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13995780 | SONG TRANSITION EFFECTS FOR BROWSING | June 2013 | January 2016 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13911915 | AUDIO NOISE ESTIMATION AND AUDIO NOISE REDUCTION USING MULTIPLE MICROPHONES | June 2013 | December 2017 | Allow | 54 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner TZENG, FENG-TZER.
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, 87.5% 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.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner TZENG, FENG-TZER works in Art Unit 2653 and has examined 77 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 96.1%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 28 months.
Examiner TZENG, FENG-TZER's allowance rate of 96.1% places them in the 88% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by TZENG, FENG-TZER receive 1.86 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 58% 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 TZENG, FENG-TZER is 28 months. This places the examiner in the 52% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +6.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by TZENG, FENG-TZER. This interview benefit is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 15.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 6% 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 60.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 83% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 71% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 90% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 25.0% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 100.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 96% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 19% 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 25% 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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