USPTO Examiner ZHU RICHARD Z - Art Unit 2654

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18954057Systems and Methods for Improved Data Curation and IntegrationNovember 2024July 2025Allow820YesNo
18842368COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PUNCTUATION OF TEXT FROM AUDIO INPUTAugust 2024August 2025Allow1120YesNo
18650972INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ORDER-BASED CUSTOMER DIALOGUE SYSTEMApril 2024March 2025Allow1110NoNo
18641001AUTOMATED SELECTION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTSApril 2024November 2024Allow720YesNo
18591273System and Method for Analyzing and Reacting to Interactions Between Entities Using Electronic Communication ChannelsFebruary 2024October 2025Allow1930NoNo
18440528INVOKING FUNCTIONS OF AGENTS VIA DIGITAL ASSISTANT APPLICATIONS USING ADDRESS TEMPLATESFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1320NoNo
18430253MULTIMODAL RESPONSESFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210NoNo
18414693VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM BASED ON AN INTENDED ACTION OF AN OCCUPANTJanuary 2024December 2025Allow2310YesNo
18411516MULTIPLE SKILLS PROCESSINGJanuary 2024November 2024Allow1010NoNo
18409676TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT ENCODING IN NEURAL SEMANTIC PARSING SYSTEMSJanuary 2024March 2026Allow2610YesNo
18408254RESPONSIBLE PROMPT RECOMMENDATIONJanuary 2024March 2026Allow2610YesNo
18543093SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUERYING A DOCUMENT POOLDecember 2023January 2026Allow2510YesNo
18526690Personalized and Contextualized Audio BriefingDecember 2023April 2025Allow1630YesNo
18525620DOMAIN MODEL DRIVEN PROCESSING OF DIALOG INCLUDING AMBIGUOUS INTENTSNovember 2023March 2026Allow2810YesNo
18520336NETWORKED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, & METHODS FOR INTELLIGENTLY DEACTIVATING WAKE-WORD ENGINESNovember 2023November 2025Allow2430YesNo
18510086ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING UTTERANCE, OPERATING METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2023December 2025Allow2510NoNo
18489482SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS THAT PROVIDE CONVERSATIONAL RESPONSESOctober 2023September 2024Allow1110YesNo
18485700MULTI-TASK MODEL WITH CONTEXT MASKINGOctober 2023October 2025Allow2410YesNo
18378038SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR RESUMING DIALOG SESSIONS VIA AUTOMATED ASSISTANTOctober 2023December 2024Allow1420YesNo
18467083USER PROFILE LINKINGSeptember 2023November 2025Allow2640YesNo
18244543MULTIMODAL SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATIONSeptember 2023August 2024Allow1110NoNo
18464592SPEECH-PROCESSING SYSTEMSeptember 2023September 2025Allow2440YesNo
18462092SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VIRTUAL AGENT IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTSeptember 2023August 2024Allow1210YesNo
18458777Voice-Enabled Screen ReaderAugust 2023February 2025Allow1810YesNo
18449172EMOTION-BASED VOICE CONTROLLED DEVICEAugust 2023March 2025Allow1920NoNo
18447421METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRAINING AND DEPLOYING NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING MODELSAugust 2023October 2025Allow2610YesNo
18365694APPARATUSES, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS, AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR ADAPTING SPEECH RECOGNITION CONFIDENCE SCORES BASED ON EXPECTED RESPONSEAugust 2023November 2025Allow2810NoNo
18230395SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERSATION ORCHESTRATION USING TRAINED LARGE LANGUAGE MODELSAugust 2023July 2024Allow1130NoNo
18360964CROSS-LINGUAL APPARATUS AND METHODJuly 2023March 2026Allow3220NoNo
18226524HOME APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOFJuly 2023October 2025Abandon2640YesNo
18352930METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SEARCHABLE REAL-TIME TRANSCRIBED AUDIO AND VISUAL CONTENT WITHIN A GROUP-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMJuly 2023April 2025Allow2230YesNo
18269579A TEXT SUMMARIZATION PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD SENSITIVE TO TEXT CATEGORIZATION AND A SUMMARIZATION SYSTEM USING THE SAID METHODJune 2023November 2025Abandon2910NoNo
18330859SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARSING MULTIPLE INTENTS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECHJune 2023April 2025Allow2330YesNo
18143912METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRIORITIZING CONTENT PROVIDED TO A USERMay 2023June 2024Allow1420YesNo
18251765INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICEMay 2023March 2026Abandon3420NoNo
18312155NATURAL LANGUAGE BASED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION PROFILE SYSTEMMay 2023June 2024Abandon1410NoNo
18310790SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION GENERATION METHOD, SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION GENERATION DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUMMay 2023November 2025Abandon3010NoNo
18310558Unsupervised automated extraction of conversation structure from recorded conversationsMay 2023August 2024Allow1620YesNo
18135049INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ORDER-BASED CUSTOMER DIALOGUE SYSTEMApril 2023January 2024Allow1010NoNo
18193350Transforming an Ontology Into a Graph-Based Information Model for Automation PurposesMarch 2023October 2025Abandon3010NoNo
18247441SPEECH INTERACTION METHOD ,AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEMarch 2023February 2026Allow3520YesNo
18189270SPEECH ENDPOINTING BASED ON WORD COMPARISONSMarch 2023April 2024Allow1320YesNo
18126212SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONSTRUCTING VIDEO DATA USING CONTEXTUALLY-AWARE MULTI-MODAL GENERATION DURING SIGNAL LOSSMarch 2023May 2025Allow2600NoNo
18117281CLIPBOARD BASED SEARCH TERM PREDICTIONMarch 2023August 2025Allow3010YesNo
18169162SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS THAT PROVIDE CONVERSATIONAL RESPONSESFebruary 2023August 2023Allow610NoNo
18102579PREDICTIVE TIME SERIES DATA OBJECT MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMJanuary 2023December 2024Allow2330YesNo
18101280METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING INTERACTION WITH VIRTUAL ASSISTANTJanuary 2023October 2025Allow3320NoNo
18151877AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING AND DYNAMIC NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDINGJanuary 2023February 2026Allow3720YesNo
18151619NETWORKED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, & METHODS FOR INTELLIGENTLY DEACTIVATING WAKE-WORD ENGINESJanuary 2023July 2023Allow600NoNo
18069070LANGUAGE MODELS USING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODEL COMPONENTSDecember 2022September 2023Allow820NoNo
18077826MODELING ATTENTION TO IMPROVE CLASSIFICATION AND PROVIDE INHERENT EXPLAINABILITYDecember 2022December 2025Allow3720NoNo
18060672METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUESTION ANSWERING BASED ON TABLE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEDecember 2022November 2025Abandon3601NoNo
18059928MULTIMODAL SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATIONNovember 2022August 2023Allow810NoNo
17993029SEMANTIC FRAME BUILDERNovember 2022February 2025Allow2700NoNo
17964647AUTOMATED TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION, SUCH AS DRIVING MODE VOICE MEMOOctober 2022October 2023Allow1220YesNo
17957934GENERATING MACHINE INTERPRETABLE DECOMPOSABLE MODELS FROM REQUIREMENTS TEXTSeptember 2022November 2025Allow3720YesNo
17958217EVIDENCE NETWORK NAVIGATIONSeptember 2022September 2025Abandon3610NoNo
17935924TRAINING FOR LONG-FORM SPEECH RECOGNITIONSeptember 2022August 2025Allow3411YesNo
17946400Multi-Granularity Alignment for Visual Question AnsweringSeptember 2022November 2024Allow2610YesNo
17946871ASSISTANT ADAPTATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO GUIDE INTERACTION WITH USER IN FULFILLING USER REQUESTSeptember 2022March 2025Allow3020YesNo
17945320MULTIPLE SKILLS PROCESSINGSeptember 2022September 2023Allow1210NoNo
17942116SENTIMENT PARSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2022April 2025Allow3110YesNo
17930141PYRAMID VECTOR QUANTIZER SHAPE SEARCHSeptember 2022November 2023Allow1420YesNo
17898205INVOKING FUNCTIONS OF AGENTS VIA DIGITAL ASSISTANT APPLICATIONS USING ADDRESS TEMPLATESAugust 2022September 2023Allow1320YesNo
17822715ADAPTIVE FRAME SKIPPING FOR SPEECH RECOGNITIONAugust 2022November 2024Allow2710NoNo
17863742APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING NATURAL LANGUAGEJuly 2022November 2024Allow2810NoNo
17854450ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFJune 2022October 2024Allow2810YesNo
17851902AUGMENTING VOICE SAMPLES BASED ON DISTRIBUTIONS OF SPEAKER CLASSESJune 2022February 2025Allow3210YesNo
17784004DIALOGUE PROCESSING APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, DIALOGUE PROCESSING METHOD, LEARNING METHOD AND PROGRAMJune 2022April 2025Allow3420YesNo
17756624DETECTING RELATED INFORMATION ON CALLS IN MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM AND FOR CONSENT BASED INFORMATION SHARINGMay 2022September 2024Allow2820NoNo
17732944SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE TRUST IN CONVERSATIONSApril 2022June 2025Allow3820NoNo
17722566USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFICATIONApril 2022June 2025Allow3820YesNo
17658115COMPUTING SYSTEMS FOR RAPIDLY COLLECTING DIGITAL WITNESS STATEMENTS AND EFFICIENTLY CORRECTING TRANSCRIPTION ERRORSApril 2022December 2024Allow3210NoNo
17698963SUMMARIZING MEETING CONTENT WITH ACCURACY CONTROLMarch 2022July 2025Allow4030YesNo
17690609SHARED ENCODER FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING PROCESSINGMarch 2022December 2024Allow3310YesNo
17422281E-MAIL CLASSIFICATION DEVICE, E-MAIL CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMFebruary 2022January 2025Allow4210NoNo
17668968MULTI-CHANNEL CONVERSATION PROCESSINGFebruary 2022May 2024Allow2800NoNo
17583672INDICATOR FOR VOICE-BASED COMMUNICATIONSJanuary 2022May 2024Allow2820NoNo
17627864Method and device for Processing Voice Information, Storage Medium and Electronic ApparatusJanuary 2022March 2025Abandon3820NoNo
17572261SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR RESUMING DIALOG SESSIONS VIA AUTOMATED ASSISTANTJanuary 2022August 2023Allow1920YesNo
17570196SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING VECTOR MODEL NORMAL EXCLUSION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO CHARACTERIZE A CATEGORY OF MESSAGESJanuary 2022August 2024Allow3110NoNo
17568960AUTOMATED DOMAIN-SPECIFIC CONSTRAINED DECODING FROM SPEECH INPUTS TO STRUCTURED RESOURCESJanuary 2022July 2024Allow3010YesNo
17569495SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEAKER VERIFICATIONJanuary 2022August 2024Abandon3210NoNo
17553976CASCADED ADAPTIVE INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION ALGORITHMSDecember 2021July 2023Allow1910NoNo
17644047HIERARCHICAL SEARCH FOR IMPROVED SEARCH RELEVANCEDecember 2021May 2024Allow2940YesNo
17539005SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2021April 2024Allow2910NoNo
17527167METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECENTRALIZED SUPERVISED LEARNING IN NLP APPLICATIONSNovember 2021June 2024Allow3110NoNo
17526832TEXT PROCESSING METHOD, MODEL TRAINING METHOD, AND APPARATUSNovember 2021October 2024Allow3511NoNo
17515901MULTIMODAL RESPONSESNovember 2021November 2023Allow2400NoNo
17607534DIGITAL HALFTONING WITH SPIRAL DOTSOctober 2021September 2023Allow2210NoNo
17607177RASTER IMAGE PROCESSOROctober 2021April 2024Abandon2920NoNo
17405120USER PROFILE LINKINGAugust 2021July 2023Allow2310NoNo
17428961PARALINGUISTIC INFORMATION ESTIMATION MODEL LEARNING APPARATUS, PARALINGUISTIC INFORMATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAMAugust 2021April 2025Allow4530NoNo
17385746AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SITUATIONSJuly 2021February 2024Allow3110NoNo
17425444INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE TO STOP THE TURN OFF OF POWER BASED ON VOICE INPUT FOR VOICE OPERATIONJuly 2021January 2024Allow3010NoNo
17425560ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOFJuly 2021January 2024Allow3010NoNo
17383284SEMANTICALLY-AUGMENTED CONTEXT REPRESENTATION GENERATIONJuly 2021January 2024Allow3000NoNo
17373867VOICE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICEJuly 2021May 2024Abandon3420NoNo
17361761MULTI-SESSION CONTEXTJune 2021October 2023Allow2710NoNo
17419390COLOR PREDICTIONJune 2021November 2023Abandon2910NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner ZHU, RICHARD Z.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
6
Examiner Affirmed
3
(50.0%)
Examiner Reversed
3
(50.0%)
Reversal Percentile
74.0%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 50.0% 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.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
8
Allowed After Appeal Filing
3
(37.5%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
5
(62.5%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
61.6%
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, 37.5% 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.

Strategic Recommendations

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 ZHU, RICHARD Z - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner ZHU, RICHARD Z works in Art Unit 2654 and has examined 113 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 90.3%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner ZHU, RICHARD Z's allowance rate of 90.3% places them in the 73% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by ZHU, RICHARD Z receive 2.22 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 61% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by ZHU, RICHARD Z is 34 months. This places the examiner in the 44% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by ZHU, RICHARD Z. This interview benefit is in the 17% 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.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 26.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 44% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 31.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 45% 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, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 11% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show limited success with this examiner compared to others. While still worth considering, be prepared to proceed with a full appeal brief if the PAC does not result in favorable action.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 50.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 17% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 33.3% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 80.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 84% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.9% of allowed cases (in the 66% 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 27% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may 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:

    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

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