USPTO Examiner GODBOLD DOUGLAS - Art Unit 2655

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18973338METHOD OF TRAINING LANGUAGE MODEL FOR CYBERSECURITY AND SYSTEM PERFORMING THE SAMEDecember 2024May 2025Allow610NoNo
18961216CHAT INTEGRATION WITH GRID-BASED DATA STRUCTURENovember 2024February 2025Allow200NoNo
18819804AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAMAugust 2024March 2025Allow610NoNo
18819733AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAMAugust 2024March 2025Allow610NoNo
18819866AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAMAugust 2024March 2025Allow610NoNo
18819680AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAMAugust 2024February 2025Allow510NoNo
18791394LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ENGINE ANALYSIS AND TRACKING OF DARK WEB DATA AND THREAT ACTORSJuly 2024February 2026Allow1900NoNo
18739304Error Correcting of Programming Code Generated Through Integration with Generative Artificial IntelligenceJune 2024January 2026Allow1900NoNo
18707542DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE IN SPEECH RECOGNITIONMay 2024March 2026Allow2200NoNo
18636434Mood- and Mental State-Aware Interaction With Multimodal Large Language ModelsApril 2024September 2024Allow501NoNo
18598092CHATBOT WITH DYNAMICALLY CUSTOMIZED AI PERSONAMarch 2024December 2025Allow2200NoNo
18594833TARGETED VOICE SEPARATION BY SPEAKER CONDITIONED ON SPECTROGRAM MASKINGMarch 2024July 2025Allow1710NoNo
18429150LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL INTERFACE FOR COMPLEX DATABASESJanuary 2024December 2025Allow2310YesNo
18428530SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDITING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODELJanuary 2024December 2025Allow2200NoNo
18426488METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER VOICE IDENTIFICATION USING ENSEMBLED DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMSJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1410NoNo
18416154SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAMJanuary 2024September 2025Abandon2010NoNo
18415572SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRECTING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION ERRORSJanuary 2024July 2025Allow1820YesNo
18410789PROCESSING OF AUDIO DATA IN MULTI-SPEAKER MULTI-CHANNEL ENVIRONMENTSJanuary 2024March 2026Allow2610NoNo
18401770ADAPTING AN UTTERANCE CUT-OFF PERIOD WITH USER SPECIFIC PROFILE DATAJanuary 2024March 2025Allow1410YesNo
18522762AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAMNovember 2023May 2024Allow510NoNo
18522732AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAMNovember 2023May 2024Allow510NoNo
18563940INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMNovember 2023January 2026Abandon2610NoNo
18516500SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE PREPROCESSOR SELECTION FOR EFFICIENT MULTI-MODAL CLASSIFICATIONNovember 2023October 2025Allow2310NoNo
18506045Systems and Methods for Simplifying Statutory ReportingNovember 2023November 2025Allow2420YesNo
18386020FRAME ERROR CONCEALMENTNovember 2023January 2025Allow1510NoNo
18384009REAL-TIME VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, MODEL TRAINING METHOD, APPARATUSES, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2023January 2026Allow2710YesNo
18492524VERIFYING TRANSLATIONS OF SOURCE TEXT IN A SOURCE LANGUAGE TO TARGET TEXT IN A TARGET LANGUAGEOctober 2023January 2026Allow2710YesNo
18381645DATA SEARCHING METHOD FOR DATA DICTIONARY AND DATA CENTER SYSTEMOctober 2023March 2026Abandon2910NoNo
18490100ADVANTAGE MODELING FOR RLHFOctober 2023January 2026Allow2710NoNo
18489671KEY PHRASE TOPIC ASSIGNMENTOctober 2023November 2025Allow2510YesNo
18483587Personalized Branding with Prompt Adaptation in Large Language Models and Visual Language ModelsOctober 2023August 2025Allow2200NoNo
18478517MANAGEMENT OF A FOCUSED INFORMATION SHARING DIALOGUE BASED ON DISCOURSE TREESSeptember 2023July 2025Allow2210NoNo
18374583CROSS-LINGUAL VOICE CONVERSION SYSTEM AND METHODSeptember 2023April 2025Allow1820YesNo
18373177VIRTUAL ASSISTANT ACTIVATIONSeptember 2023July 2024Allow1010YesNo
18466688Decoding Audio Frames and Converted Metadata Frames from a Target EncoderSeptember 2023March 2026Allow3020YesNo
18466663Transcoding Audio Frames and Converting Metadata Frames based on a Target EncoderSeptember 2023February 2026Allow2920YesNo
18279475VOICE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEAugust 2023May 2025Allow2100YesNo
18239289INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING A TARGET SOUND SIGNAL FROM A MIXED SOUND SIGNALAugust 2023July 2025Allow2210YesNo
18278746COMPRESSING AUDIO WAVEFORMS USING A STRUCTURED LATENT SPACEAugust 2023September 2025Allow2410NoNo
18449237SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR LOW-POWER AUDIO SIGNAL DETECTIONAugust 2023January 2026Allow2920NoNo
18232485Compressing Information Provided to a Machine-Trained Model Using Abstract TokensAugust 2023November 2025Allow2710YesNo
18230581PROACTIVE INCORPORATION OF UNSOLICITED CONTENT INTO HUMAN-TO-COMPUTER DIALOGSAugust 2023August 2024Allow1210YesNo
18365765METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR SPEECH PROCESSINGAugust 2023January 2026Allow2920NoNo
18362702SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT-PRESERVING CHUNK LIBRARYJuly 2023October 2025Allow2710YesNo
18226765APPLICATION INTEGRATION WITH A DIGITAL ASSISTANTJuly 2023July 2024Allow1210YesNo
18350111SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING METHOD BASED ON PERMUTATION INVARIANT CROSS ENTROPY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOFJuly 2023October 2025Allow2710NoNo
18220769VOICE ACTIVATED DEVICE FOR USE WITH A VOICE-BASED DIGITAL ASSISTANTJuly 2023January 2025Abandon1820YesNo
18219457METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE BASED ON INTEGRATED CHATBOT AND SYSTEM THEREOFJuly 2023August 2025Allow2510NoNo
18218627TONAL LANGUAGE DICTIONARY SEARCH DEVICE, TONAL LANGUAGE DICTIONARY SEARCH METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A COMPUTER PROGRAM READABLE BY A COMPUTER OF A TONAL LANGUAGE DICTIONARY SEARCH DEVICEJuly 2023September 2025Allow2610YesNo
18218647METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED AUTHORING OF PURPOSIVE MODELS FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTSJuly 2023September 2025Allow2710NoNo
18347526ENCODER, DECODER AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO CONTENT USING PARAMETERS FOR ENHANCING A CONCEALMENTJuly 2023November 2024Allow1610NoNo
18347031JOINT TRAINING OF SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS MODELS FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONSJuly 2023October 2025Allow2710YesNo
18215178CONTROLLING OPTICALLY-SWITCHABLE DEVICESJune 2023April 2025Allow2230YesNo
18339749MEDICAL CONVERSATION SUMMARIZATION STYLE INTELLIGENCEJune 2023October 2025Allow2810NoNo
18212654NATURAL ASSISTANT INTERACTIONJune 2023June 2024Allow1210YesNo
18268699GENERATION OF DATA MODELS FOR PREDICTING DATAJune 2023September 2025Allow2710YesNo
18338075ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED NETWORK OPERATIONS REPORTING AND MANAGEMENTJune 2023November 2025Allow2920YesNo
18335898SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL USING KNOWLEDGE FROM PRE-TRAINED LARGE LANGUAGE MODELSJune 2023October 2025Allow2810YesNo
18333798APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUDIO DECODING SUPPORTING TWO SPECTRAL BAND REPLICATION MODESJune 2023July 2025Allow2510NoNo
18207554AUDIO PROCESSING OF MISSING AUDIO INFORMATIONJune 2023February 2026Allow3230YesNo
18330216SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL USING KNOWLEDGE FROM PRE-TRAINED LARGE LANGUAGE MODELSJune 2023September 2025Allow2710NoNo
18327780USING MACHINE LEARNING TO GENERATE SEGMENTS FROM UNSTRUCTURED TEXT AND IDENTIFY SENTIMENTS FOR EACH SEGMENTJune 2023November 2025Allow2920YesNo
18326292METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUMMay 2023July 2025Allow2610NoNo
18326666ADAPTING FOUNDATION MODELS FOR INFORMATION SYNTHESIS OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SPECIFICATIONSMay 2023May 2025Allow2300NoNo
18325327COMPUTERIZED DATA AGGREGATIONMay 2023August 2025Allow2610YesNo
18325991SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING DIAGNOSTIC ASSETS FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND NETWORK PATHWAY GUIDANCEMay 2023August 2025Allow2710YesNo
18321602HALLUCINATION PREVENTION FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE INSIGHTSMay 2023August 2025Allow2610YesNo
18199560BURST FRAME ERROR HANDLINGMay 2023July 2024Allow1410NoNo
18314509TRAINING DATA GENERATION TO FACILITATE FINE-TUNING EMBEDDING MODELSMay 2023July 2025Allow2610YesNo
18311849REMOVING BIAS FROM AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION MODELS USING INTERNAL LANGUAGE MODEL ESTIMATESMay 2023April 2025Allow2300NoNo
18307724CATEGORIZING QUESTIONS FROM A TRANSCRIPT USING VECTOR EMBEDDINGS FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVALApril 2023August 2025Allow2810YesNo
18135800NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TRANSLATION OF DIGITAL MULTIMEDIAApril 2023July 2025Allow2710NoNo
18296921TRANSLATING DOCUMENTS USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURING OF DOCUMENTSApril 2023April 2025Allow2400NoNo
18245305On-Device Real-Time Translation of Media Content on a Mobile Electronic DeviceMarch 2023January 2026Abandon3420YesNo
18180518METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATION OF TEXT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL WITH INDICATIONS OF UNSUBSTANTIATED INFORMATIONMarch 2023July 2025Allow2810YesNo
18178894MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ANALYSISMarch 2023July 2024Allow1610NoNo
18171334CONVERSATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DRIVEN METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING PERSONALIZED THERAPY AND TRAINING SESSIONSFebruary 2023July 2024Allow1710NoNo
18168658METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING DIALOGUE STATEFebruary 2023June 2025Allow2810NoNo
18166525Systems and Methods for Generating Names Using Machine-Learned ModelsFebruary 2023October 2024Allow2020YesNo
18040662COMMUNICATION SYSTEMFebruary 2023August 2025Abandon3110NoNo
18163836Cascaded Audiovisual Automatic Speech Recognition ModelsFebruary 2023April 2025Allow2700NoNo
18154187SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAMJanuary 2023October 2023Allow910YesNo
18004093SAFE VOICE-BASED REMOTE CONTROL OF A DOMESTIC APPLIANCEJanuary 2023August 2025Abandon3110NoNo
18011390CODING APPARATUS, DECODING APPARATUS, CODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, AND HYBRID CODING SYSTEMDecember 2022April 2025Abandon2820NoNo
18002081LOW LATENCY AUDIO PACKET LOSS CONCEALMENTDecember 2022July 2025Allow3110NoNo
18062556METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATIONDecember 2022June 2025Abandon3110NoNo
18070499END-TO-END SPEAKER DIARIZATION SYSTEM WITH AUXILIARY LOSS AND METHOD THEREOFNovember 2022April 2025Allow2810NoNo
17975430PROCESSING OF MICROPHONE SIGNALS REQUIRED BY A VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEMOctober 2022June 2025Allow3120NoNo
17968063Authentication method and systemOctober 2022May 2025Abandon3110NoNo
17918673SPEECH SKILL JUMPING METHOD FOR MAN MACHINE DIALOGUE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2022May 2025Allow3120NoNo
18045939SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND REMOVING BIAS FROM COMMUNICATIONSOctober 2022May 2025Allow3220NoNo
18046137Automatic Speech Recognition with Voice Personalization and GeneralizationOctober 2022August 2025Allow3421NoNo
17962791SPEECH RECOGNITION SERVICESOctober 2022November 2024Allow2540NoNo
17962722METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SIMILARITY BETWEEN MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2022September 2023Allow1110YesNo
17960563COMPUTING DEVICE FOR ATTENTION-BASED JOINT TRAINING WITH NOISE SUPPRESSION MODEL FOR SOUND EVENT DETECTION TECHNOLOGY ROBUST AGAINST NOISE ENVIRONMENT AND METHOD OF THEREOFOctober 2022January 2025Allow2710NoNo
17995081METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SPEECH/MUSIC CLASSIFICATION AND CORE ENCODER SELECTION IN A SOUND CODECSeptember 2022April 2024Allow1820NoNo
17934273SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE AUTHENTICATION BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUESSeptember 2022August 2023Allow1110YesNo
17944067MULTI-REGISTER-BASED SPEECH DETECTION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2022April 2024Allow1930NoNo
17910802DIALOG SUPPORT APPARATUS, DIALOG SUPPORT METHOD AND PROGRAMSeptember 2022June 2025Abandon3420NoNo
17910550VOICE EVALUATION SYSTEM, VOICE EVALUATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMSeptember 2022July 2025Abandon3520YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner GODBOLD, DOUGLAS.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
3
Examiner Affirmed
3
(100.0%)
Examiner Reversed
0
(0.0%)
Reversal Percentile
9.3%
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
5
Allowed After Appeal Filing
0
(0.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
5
(100.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
5.2%
Lower 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, 0.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.

Strategic Recommendations

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

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Examiner GODBOLD, DOUGLAS - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner GODBOLD, DOUGLAS works in Art Unit 2655 and has examined 197 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 95.9%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner GODBOLD, DOUGLAS's allowance rate of 95.9% places them in the 85% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by GODBOLD, DOUGLAS receive 1.60 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 31% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by GODBOLD, DOUGLAS is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 76% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +6.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by GODBOLD, DOUGLAS. This interview benefit is in the 33% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 37.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 87% 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 38.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 59% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 66.7% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 54% 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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 57.1% of appeals filed. This is in the 30% 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 shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 46.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 41% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 60% 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:

  • 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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Use at Your Own Risk: While we strive to provide accurate and useful prosecution statistics, you should independently verify any information that is material to your prosecution strategy and use your professional judgment in all patent prosecution matters.