USPTO Examiner TRACY JR. EDWARD - Art Unit 2656

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19358403ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM THAT GENERATES QUESTIONS AND EVALUATES ORAL READINGS AND RESPONSESOctober 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
18641839VOICE-ENABLED RECIPE SELECTIONApril 2024December 2024Allow700YesNo
18439616CROSS PRODUCT ENHANCED HARMONIC TRANSPOSITIONFebruary 2024October 2024Allow800YesNo
18439631CROSS PRODUCT ENHANCED HARMONIC TRANSPOSITIONFebruary 2024August 2024Allow600YesNo
18544209ARCHITECTURE FOR GENERATING QA PAIRS FROM CONTEXTSDecember 2023July 2024Allow700YesNo
18521676SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE REAL-TIME AUDIO MONITORINGNovember 2023February 2026Abandon2710NoNo
18279134SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, LEARNING APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUMAugust 2023January 2026Abandon2810NoNo
18455396TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO AUTOMATICALLY DETECT AND CORRECT CONTEXTUAL AND LOGICAL ERRORSAugust 2023December 2025Allow2820YesNo
18235726HOT-WORD FREE PRE-EMPTION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT RESPONSE PRESENTATIONAugust 2023June 2024Allow1000NoNo
18234623Adversarial Bootstrapping for Multi-Turn Dialogue Model TrainingAugust 2023July 2025Allow2320YesNo
18208078SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODEL DERIVATION FOR ENTITY PREDICTIONJune 2023May 2025Abandon2320NoNo
18256391INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMJune 2023February 2026Allow3210NoNo
18318225SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE LEARNING BASED MULTILINGUAL SEMANTIC PARSERMay 2023December 2025Allow3110YesNo
18316744METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING MACHINE READING COMPREHENSION MODEL, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUMMay 2023November 2025Allow3010NoNo
18311542CROSS PRODUCT ENHANCED HARMONIC TRANSPOSITIONMay 2023December 2023Allow800YesNo
18033297SOUND SIGNAL HIGH FREQUENCY COMPENSATION METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL POST PROCESSING METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL DECODE METHOD, APPARATUS THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2023April 2025Allow2400YesNo
18033303SOUND SIGNAL HIGH FREQUENCY COMPENSATION METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL POST PROCESSING METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL DECODE METHOD, APPARATUS THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2023April 2025Allow2400YesNo
18033034SOUND SIGNAL HIGH FREQUENCY COMPENSATION METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL POST PROCESSING METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL DECODE METHOD, APPARATUS THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2023January 2025Allow2100YesNo
18033025SOUND SIGNAL HIGH FREQUENCY COMPENSATION METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL POST PROCESSING METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL DECODE METHOD, APPARATUS THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2023March 2025Allow2300YesNo
18299842DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROMPTSApril 2023July 2025Allow2710YesNo
18248294ADAPTIVE BLOCK SWITCHING WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKSApril 2023July 2025Allow2710YesNo
18187862DETERMINING SPECIFICITY OF TEXT TERMS IN APPLICATION CONTEXTSMarch 2023July 2025Allow2810YesNo
18164923Deliberation Model-Based Two-Pass End-To-End Speech RecognitionFebruary 2023November 2023Allow910NoNo
18014416INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUMJanuary 2023December 2025Abandon3520NoNo
18150126METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO SIGNAL USING NORMALIZING FLOW, AND TRAINING METHOD THEREOFJanuary 2023September 2025Allow3311YesNo
18079281INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODDecember 2022October 2025Allow3520YesNo
17988651UNIT PREDICTION FOR CUSTOM FEATURE ENGINEERINGNovember 2022February 2025Allow2710NoNo
17970855SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING CONSTRAINTS TO GENERATE DATABASE QUERIESOctober 2022September 2025Allow3510YesNo
17947758ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOFSeptember 2022January 2026Allow4040YesNo
17900607METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION MODEL BASED ON METAPHOR IDENTIFICATIONAugust 2022October 2025Allow3710NoNo
17886486Method and Computing Device in which Semantic Definitions are Composed as a Semantic MetasetAugust 2022November 2024Allow2711YesNo
17853853ENHANCED SPATIAL AUDIO-BASED VIRTUAL SEATING ARRANGEMENTSJune 2022July 2025Allow3700NoNo
17845908SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON FUSED POPULATION INFORMATIONJune 2022October 2023Allow1500NoNo
17843845ANSWER GENERATION USING MACHINE READING COMPREHENSION AND SUPPORTED DECISION TREESJune 2022August 2025Allow3810YesNo
17658513SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION MODEL TRAINING AND SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION METHOD, AND APPARATUSApril 2022March 2024Abandon2300NoNo
17674704QUERY RESPONSE GENERATIONFebruary 2022February 2026Allow4830YesNo
17635354SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING PROGRAM, TRAINING DEVICE, TRAINING METHOD, AND TRAINING PROGRAMFebruary 2022May 2025Allow3920YesNo
17581537SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJanuary 2022February 2025Allow3710YesNo
17578897TEXT-TO-SPEECH DUBBING SYSTEMJanuary 2022April 2025Abandon3920NoNo
17561233ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFDecember 2021April 2024Allow2810YesNo
17619648TARGETED VOICE SEPARATION BY SPEAKER FOR SPEECH RECOGNITIONDecember 2021September 2024Allow3330NoNo
17530640DYNAMIC LANGUAGE SELECTION OF AN AI VOICE ASSISTANCE SYSTEMNovember 2021December 2025Allow4950YesNo
17531321METHOD AND SERVER FOR DETERMINING A TRAINING SET FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM (MLA)November 2021March 2026Abandon5240NoYes
17531541Machine Learning-Based Translation of Address Strings to Standardized AddressesNovember 2021January 2025Allow3820YesNo
17531591SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEMANTIC CODE SEARCHNovember 2021August 2025Allow4520YesNo
17531543LANGUAGE MODEL BASED WRITING AID METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEMNovember 2021May 2024Allow3010NoNo
17525510Span Pointer Networks for Non-Autoregressive Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing for Assistant SystemsNovember 2021March 2024Allow2810YesNo
17525585DIALOGUE SYSTEM, A VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME, AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DIALOGUE SYSTEMNovember 2021August 2025Abandon4540NoNo
17441755METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINED LEARNING USING FEATURE ENHANCEMENT BASED ON DEEP NEURAL NETWORK AND MODIFIED LOSS FUNCTION FOR SPEAKER RECOGNITION ROBUST TO NOISY ENVIRONMENTSSeptember 2021August 2023Allow2310NoNo
17478916Method and System for Detecting Anomalous SoundSeptember 2021January 2024Allow2800NoNo
17447536SPEECH DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2021May 2024Allow3220YesNo
17466103MONITORING SYSTEMSeptember 2021February 2026Allow5460YesNo
17436050METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPEECH SEPARATIONSeptember 2021April 2025Abandon4360YesNo
17383631CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION ENTITY TESTINGJuly 2021September 2024Allow3840YesNo
17361114METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN INTENT CLASSIFIERJune 2021September 2023Allow2700YesNo
17416709METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING AUDIO SIGNAL, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2021July 2024Allow3730YesNo
17337611CONVERSATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM, CONVERSATION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS PROGRAMJune 2021March 2024Abandon3310NoNo
17338431Cross Product Enhanced Harmonic TranspositionJune 2021April 2023Allow2300YesNo
17299061ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFORJune 2021October 2024Abandon4020NoNo
17335657COVER SONG IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEMJune 2021June 2024Allow3620YesNo
17324016MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH ACCURATE DATA LABELINGMay 2021April 2024Allow3510YesNo
17220677SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING NEURAL NETWORKS TO IDENTIFY PRODUCERS OF HEALTH SOUNDSApril 2021March 2023Abandon2310NoNo
17217541DEVICE FOR AN AUTOMATED GENERATION OF A KNOWLEDGE GRAPHMarch 2021April 2024Allow3620NoNo
17209681METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING VOICEMarch 2021May 2023Allow2620NoNo
17249930LANGUAGE AGNOSTIC MISSING SUBTITLE DETECTIONMarch 2021August 2022Allow1710YesNo
17201146JOINT WORKS PRODUCTION METHOD AND SERVER USING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCEMarch 2021January 2024Allow3430NoNo
17194118NEURAL TAGGER WITH DEEP MULTI-LEVEL MODELMarch 2021February 2024Allow3620YesNo
17187248METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DISCRIMINATIVE PRE-TRAINING FOR LOW RESOURCE TITLE COMPRESSIONFebruary 2021July 2023Allow2820YesNo
17271308REAL-TIME PITCH TRACKING BY DETECTION OF GLOTTAL EXCITATION EPOCHS IN SPEECH SIGNAL USING HILBERT ENVELOPEFebruary 2021July 2022Allow1710YesNo
17183743SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS AND METHODSFebruary 2021January 2024Allow3520NoNo
17178476AUTOMATICALLY MODIFYING RESPONSES FROM GENERATIVE MODELS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUESFebruary 2021May 2023Allow2720YesNo
17173801AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODFebruary 2021July 2022Allow1710YesNo
17170836Consistency Prediction On Streaming Sequence ModelsFebruary 2021November 2023Allow3330YesNo
17168905MACHINE LEARNING BASED GENERATION OF SYNTHETIC CROWD RESPONSESFebruary 2021March 2023Allow2620NoNo
17165651SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATION MODEL OF LANGUAGEFebruary 2021May 2023Abandon2710NoNo
17162624SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTILINGUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION FRAMEWORKJanuary 2021June 2023Allow2810YesNo
17160103ENCODER, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR METAPHOR DETECTION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSINGJanuary 2021February 2023Allow2410NoNo
17149018Deliberation Model-Based Two-Pass End-To-End Speech RecognitionJanuary 2021October 2023Allow3320YesYes
17143913METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONVERTING SPOKEN WORDS TO TEXT FORMJanuary 2021September 2023Abandon3240YesNo
17136439CUSTOMIZATION OF RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK TRANSDUCERS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITIONDecember 2020December 2023Allow3530YesNo
17134143DEEP LEARNING BASED TEXT CLASSIFICATIONDecember 2020February 2023Allow2510NoNo
17251511HOT-WORD FREE PRE-EMPTION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT RESPONSE PRESENTATIONDecember 2020April 2023Allow2830YesNo
17251753CODING DEVICE, CODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAMDecember 2020August 2025Abandon5641NoNo
17112512DIALOG MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE USERSDecember 2020March 2024Allow3940YesNo
17109008Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing with Graph TranslationDecember 2020March 2023Allow2810YesNo
17101108SPEECH SIGNAL BANDWIDTH EXTENSION USING CASCADED NEURAL NETWORKSNovember 2020January 2024Allow3830YesNo
16953104DETECTION OF LIVE SPEECHNovember 2020August 2023Abandon3311NoNo
16951983MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING LOGICAL SECTIONS IN UNSTRUCTURED DATANovember 2020September 2024Abandon4540YesNo
17096767ARCHITECTURE FOR GENERATING QA PAIRS FROM CONTEXTSNovember 2020September 2023Allow3420YesNo
17088206SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TRAINING TASK-ORIENTED DIALOGUE (TOD) LANGUAGE MODELSNovember 2020April 2023Allow2920NoNo
17081378Voice Activty Detection Using Zero Crossing DetectionOctober 2020June 2023Allow3130NoYes
17071913METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WORD EDIT DISTANCE EMBEDDINGOctober 2020April 2024Allow4240YesNo
17062307PHONEME SOUND BASED CONTROLLEROctober 2020December 2022Abandon2610YesNo
17040746VOICE CONVERSATION ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCESeptember 2020June 2023Allow3240YesNo
17022153ZERO-SHOT CROSS-LINGUAL TRANSFER LEARNINGSeptember 2020November 2023Allow3820YesYes
16929383SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAST FILTERING OF AUDIO KEYWORD SEARCHJuly 2020February 2024Allow4340YesNo
16920519ORTHOGONALLY CONSTRAINED MULTI-HEAD ATTENTION FOR SPEECH TASKSJuly 2020October 2023Allow3940YesNo
16902731AUTONOMOUSLY MOTILE DEVICE WITH NOISE SUPPRESSIONJune 2020August 2023Allow3820YesNo
16897882CLIENT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING VOICE BROADCASTJune 2020May 2023Abandon3520YesNo
16770724ENCODED FEATURES AND RATE-BASED AUGMENTATION BASED SPEECH AUTHENTICATIONJune 2020August 2022Allow2610YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner TRACY JR., EDWARD.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
5
Allowed After Appeal Filing
2
(40.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
3
(60.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
66.1%
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, 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.

Strategic Recommendations

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

Examiner TRACY JR., EDWARD - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner TRACY JR., EDWARD works in Art Unit 2656 and has examined 81 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 79.0%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 35 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner TRACY JR., EDWARD's allowance rate of 79.0% places them in the 48% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by TRACY JR., EDWARD receive 2.46 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 71% 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 TRACY JR., EDWARD is 35 months. This places the examiner in the 39% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +31.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by TRACY JR., EDWARD. This interview benefit is in the 79% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 29.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 57% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 23.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 32% 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 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 91% percentile among all examiners. 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 100.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 91% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 21% 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 3.1% of allowed cases (in the 74% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

  • Prioritize examiner interviews: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner. Request an interview after the first office action to clarify issues and potentially expedite allowance.
  • Appeal filing as negotiation tool: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

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.

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