USPTO Examiner ARMSTRONG ANGELA A - Art Unit 2659

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18659940UNSUPERVISED FEDERATED LEARNING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL LAYERSMay 2024March 2025Allow1010YesNo
18590341SPEECH ENABLING SYSTEMFebruary 2024October 2024Allow801NoNo
18581960AUTHENTICATION OF IMPAIRED VOICESFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1420NoNo
18413784SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION SERVICESJanuary 2024March 2025Abandon1410NoNo
18397158APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL USING CASCADED FILTERBANKSDecember 2023January 2025Allow1310NoNo
18540377PROACTIVE INCORPORATION OF UNSOLICITED CONTENT INTO HUMAN-TO-COMPUTER DIALOGSDecember 2023October 2024Allow1010NoNo
18506866DETERMINING INPUT FOR SPEECH PROCESSING ENGINENovember 2023December 2024Allow1310YesNo
18504391PROVIDING CONTEXT-DRIVEN OUTPUT BASED ON FACIAL MICROMOVEMENTSNovember 2023July 2024Allow810NoNo
18377223METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPLEX NATURAL LANGUAGE TASK UNDERSTANDING FOR EMBODIED AGENTSOctober 2023June 2025Allow2100NoNo
18218333RECOMMENDING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACTION FOR INCLUSION IN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ROUTINEJuly 2023March 2024Allow900YesNo
18214384DIRECTING A VEHICLE CLIENT DEVICE TO USE ON-DEVICE FUNCTIONALITYJune 2023August 2024Allow1410YesNo
18210696ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONVERSATIONAL SERVICEJune 2023August 2024Allow1410YesNo
18207987PROVIDING COMMAND BUNDLE SUGGESTIONS FOR AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANTJune 2023June 2024Allow1310NoNo
18207221SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCAL INTERPRETATION OF VOICE QUERIESJune 2023February 2025Allow2020YesNo
18328358Media System with Closed-Captioning Data and/or Subtitle Data Generation FeaturesJune 2023September 2024Allow1530YesNo
18249184SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-LINGUAL TRANSLATION IN MESSAGE COMMUNICATIONApril 2023September 2024Allow1710NoNo
18181805FACIAL MOVEMENTS WAKE UP WEARABLEMarch 2023September 2023Allow710NoNo
18102000PROCESSING SPEECH SIGNALS OF A USER TO GENERATE A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE USERJanuary 2023September 2023Allow800YesNo
18148221DETERMINING INPUT FOR SPEECH PROCESSING ENGINEDecember 2022October 2023Allow910YesNo
18048810APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL USING CASCADED FILTERBANKSOctober 2022September 2023Allow1110NoNo
17962011METHOD OF GENERATING SUMMARY BASED ON MAIN SPEAKEROctober 2022December 2024Allow2620YesNo
17872465RECOMMENDING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACTION FOR INCLUSION IN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ROUTINEJuly 2022March 2023Allow800YesNo
17758115SWITCHING BETWEEN STEREO CODING MODES IN A MULTICHANNEL SOUND CODECJune 2022September 2024Allow2700NoNo
17788585COMMUNICATION METHODS AND APPARATUSES, ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIAJune 2022July 2024Allow2510NoNo
17844680SENTENCE SIMILARITY SCORING USING NEURAL NETWORK DISTILLATIONJune 2022February 2025Allow3210YesNo
17728563DIRECTING A VEHICLE CLIENT DEVICE TO USE ON-DEVICE FUNCTIONALITYApril 2022March 2023Allow1100YesNo
17582847PROVIDING COMMAND BUNDLE SUGGESTIONS FOR AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANTJanuary 2022January 2023Allow1210NoNo
17572293PROACTIVE INCORPORATION OF UNSOLICITED CONTENT INTO HUMAN-TO-COMPUTER DIALOGSJanuary 2022November 2023Allow2220NoNo
17615812SPEECH RECOGNITION CONTROL APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAMDecember 2021June 2025Abandon4330NoNo
17514576EVENT EXTRACTION METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2021July 2024Allow3310YesNo
17512785Speech Processing System And A Method Of Processing A Speech SignalOctober 2021March 2024Allow2810YesNo
17498950OPERATION SUPPORT APPARATUS OF TRANSPORTATION MEANS, OPERATION SUPPORT METHOD OF TRANSPORTATION MEANS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING OPERATION SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR TRANSPORTATION MEANSOctober 2021September 2024Allow3510NoNo
17492151ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING WORDS CORRESPONDING TO USER INTERACTION AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOFOctober 2021August 2024Allow3510YesNo
17461649SIGNIFICANCE-BASED PREDICTION FROM UNSTRUCTURED TEXTAugust 2021August 2024Allow3610YesNo
17352856METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SEPARATING MIXED SOUND SIGNALJune 2021May 2022Allow1120NoNo
17303552CURIOSITY BASED ACTIVATION AND SEARCH DEPTHJune 2021July 2023Allow2510YesNo
17296825TRANSLATION DEVICE AND TRANSLATION METHODMay 2021January 2024Allow3210NoNo
17230433KNOWLEDGE GRAPH MANAGEMENT BASED ON MULTI-SOURCE DATAApril 2021December 2024Allow4420YesNo
17226594SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH NEURAL REPRESENTATION OF EVENT-CENTRIC COMMONSENSE KNOWLEDGE FOR RESPONSE SELECTIONApril 2021October 2024Allow4220NoNo
17278725SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHODMarch 2021April 2024Abandon3710NoNo
17205946Model Evaluation Method and Device, and Electronic DeviceMarch 2021March 2023Abandon2320NoNo
17193828METHOD AND VOICE ASSISTANT DEVICE FOR MANAGING CONFIDENTIAL DATA AS A NON-VOICE INPUTMarch 2021February 2025Allow4840YesNo
17261585USER VOICE BASED DATA FILE COMMUNICATIONSJanuary 2021October 2024Abandon4430YesNo
17248282AUTHENTICATION OF IMPAIRED VOICESJanuary 2021November 2023Allow3410NoNo
17260265FREE TEXT DE-IDENTIFICATIONJanuary 2021March 2025Abandon5040NoNo
17145047APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSIONJanuary 2021July 2024Allow4230YesNo
17138232INTELLIGENT SHORT TEXT INFORMATION RETRIEVE BASED ON DEEP LEARNINGDecember 2020August 2023Abandon3220NoNo
17131009ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFDecember 2020July 2024Allow4320YesNo
17124341AUGMENTED TRAINING DATA FOR END-TO-END MODELSDecember 2020August 2023Allow3230YesNo
16973605UNSUPERVISED FEDERATED LEARNING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL LAYERSDecember 2020February 2024Allow3810NoNo
16973285CONVERSATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, CONVERSATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND PROGRAMDecember 2020February 2024Allow3810NoNo
17107898SENTIMENT ANALYSIS TUNINGNovember 2020August 2023Abandon3220YesNo
17051156METHOD FOR RECORDING AND OUTPUTTING CONVERSION BETWEEN MULTIPLE PARTIES USING SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY, AND DEVICE THEREFOROctober 2020December 2022Abandon2610NoNo
17038714SPEECH AND AUDIO DEVICESSeptember 2020April 2024Abandon4340YesNo
16980069Speech Processing System And A Method Of Processing A Speech SignalSeptember 2020February 2024Allow4210YesNo
16979973INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMSeptember 2020June 2023Allow3420NoNo
17009695SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING AN ARTIFICIALLY DIVERSE CORPUS OF TRAINING DATA SAMPLES FOR TRAINING A CONTEXTUALLY-BIASED MODEL FOR A MACHINE LEARNING-BASED DIALOGUE SYSTEMSeptember 2020November 2022Abandon2610NoNo
16936967CONTEXT ACQUIRING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON VOICE INTERACTIONJuly 2020December 2023Abandon4110NoNo
16962734SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH IMAGE SIGNALJuly 2020April 2021Allow910YesNo
16926138MULTI-TAP MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER WITH NEURAL NETWORKS FOR TARGET SPEECH SEPARATIONJuly 2020April 2022Allow2220YesNo
16924879HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES AND METHODS WHICH DETERMINE INTENDED RESPONSES BY HUMANSJuly 2020September 2023Allow3910NoNo
16911247SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRELATING SPEECH AND LIP MOVEMENTJune 2020November 2024Allow5340YesNo
16907792SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING AN ARTIFICIALLY DIVERSE CORPUS OF TRAINING DATA SAMPLES FOR TRAINING A CONTEXTUALLY-BIASED MODEL FOR A MACHINE LEARNING-BASED DIALOGUE SYSTEMJune 2020July 2020Allow100NoNo
16907006TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SPEECH SYNTHESIS MODEL, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2020September 2022Allow2710NoNo
16770243SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE AND METHODJune 2020August 2024Allow5060YesNo
16878313APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL USING CASCADED FILTERBANKSMay 2020July 2022Allow2510NoNo
16869013ADJUSTING CHATBOT CONVERSATION TO USER PERSONALITY AND MOODMay 2020July 2022Allow2600YesNo
16864790ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED VIRTUAL AGENT TRAINERMay 2020December 2021Allow2000NoNo
16863999Systems and Methods for Explicit Memory Tracker with Coarse-To-Fine Reasoning in Conversational Machine ReadingApril 2020December 2022Allow3220YesNo
16858933METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AUDIO CONTENT IN A GROUP CONVERSATIONApril 2020July 2022Allow2710NoNo
16859695AUTOMATICALLY LABELING DATA USING CONCEPTUAL DESCRIPTIONSApril 2020March 2023Allow3520YesNo
16857772HANDLING EXPLICIT INVOCATION OF CHATBOTSApril 2020March 2024Allow4730YesNo
16829323PROACTIVE INCORPORATION OF UNSOLICITED CONTENT INTO HUMAN-TO-COMPUTER DIALOGSMarch 2020October 2021Allow1800YesNo
16822288PRECISE CHATBOT-TRAINING SYSTEMMarch 2020October 2023Abandon4320NoNo
16818690TEXT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUSMarch 2020March 2023Allow3620NoNo
16810358BRAIN-INSPIRED SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM, A DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOFMarch 2020June 2023Allow4010YesNo
16809415GENERATING INTERACTIVE AUDIO-VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF INDIVIDUALSMarch 2020October 2021Abandon1910NoNo
16805337DETERMINING INPUT FOR SPEECH PROCESSING ENGINEFebruary 2020November 2022Allow3340NoNo
16802429METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SEMANTIC MEANING OF PRONOUNFebruary 2020October 2022Abandon3130NoNo
16797339ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONVERSATIONAL SERVICEFebruary 2020March 2023Allow3710YesNo
16783021AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH ENHANCEMENTFebruary 2020October 2021Allow2010YesNo
16750274METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SPEECH RECOGNITIONJanuary 2020December 2021Allow2320NoNo
16742006Text-to-Speech Adapted by Machine LearningJanuary 2020August 2022Allow3120YesYes
16733868COGNITIVE ANALYSIS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION USING MULTI-LANGUAGE VECTOR REPRESENTATIONSJanuary 2020October 2022Allow3320NoNo
16729112METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING LOSS FUNCTION FOR AUDIO SIGNALDecember 2019September 2022Allow3320NoNo
16715394ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFDecember 2019May 2023Allow4120YesNo
16712903APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSIONDecember 2019September 2020Allow1000NoNo
16712486PROCESSING OPTIMIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNINGDecember 2019October 2023Allow4630NoNo
16710756PREDICTIVE FEATURE ANALYSISDecember 2019December 2023Allow4830YesNo
16618994AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING LANGUAGE FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION OF SPOKEN UTTERANCE RECEIVED VIA AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT INTERFACEDecember 2019March 2022Allow2710YesNo
16697495DIALOGUE SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DIALOGUE SYSTEMNovember 2019November 2023Abandon4830NoNo
16617975RECOMMENDING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACTION FOR INCLUSION IN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ROUTINENovember 2019March 2022Allow2800YesNo
16696188DYNAMIC HASHTAG ORDERING BASED ON PROJECTED INTERESTNovember 2019January 2021Allow1410YesNo
16692432PROVIDING COMMAND BUNDLE SUGGESTIONS FOR AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANTNovember 2019September 2021Allow2210YesNo
16690400SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCAL INTERPRETATION OF VOICE QUERIESNovember 2019March 2023Allow4020YesNo
16613005DIRECTING A VEHICLE CLIENT DEVICE TO USE ON-DEVICE FUNCTIONALITYNovember 2019December 2021Allow2500YesNo
16611276AUDIO GUIDANCE GENERATION DEVICE, AUDIO GUIDANCE GENERATION METHOD, AND BROADCASTING SYSTEMNovember 2019March 2022Allow2920YesNo
16667533SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION SERVICESOctober 2019August 2023Allow4640YesNo
16599150TRANSLATION DEVICEOctober 2019May 2022Abandon3110NoNo
16599947DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAMEOctober 2019August 2022Allow3430NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
13
Examiner Affirmed
10
(76.9%)
Examiner Reversed
3
(23.1%)
Reversal Percentile
35.5%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 23.1% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
45
Allowed After Appeal Filing
16
(35.6%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
29
(64.4%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
55.7%
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, 35.6% 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 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 ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A works in Art Unit 2659 and has examined 464 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 78.0%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A's allowance rate of 78.0% places them in the 38% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A receive 2.58 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 87% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues more office actions than most examiners, which may indicate thorough examination or difficulty in reaching agreement with applicants.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A is 34 months. This places the examiner in the 24% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +10.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A. This interview benefit is in the 48% 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, 24.1% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 25% 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 27.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 30% 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, 40.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 35% 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 65.8% of appeals filed. This is in the 41% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 44.0% 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, 43.8% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 47% 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 58% 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 5.5% of allowed cases (in the 80% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

  • Expect multiple rounds of prosecution: This examiner issues more office actions than average. Address potential issues proactively in your initial response and consider requesting an interview early in prosecution.
  • Plan for extended prosecution: Applications take longer than average with this examiner. Factor this into your continuation strategy and client communications.

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.