USPTO Art Unit 2161 Prosecution Statistics

Art Unit Information

Art Unit: 2161
Group: 2160
Tech Center: 2100
Total Cases: 9,809
Last Active: February 2025

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19104587DATA FUSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2025June 2025Allow400NoNo
18967327Image Analysis by Prompting of Machine-Learned Models Using Chain of ThoughtDecember 2024February 2025Allow300NoNo
18945454POINT-OF-INTEREST RECOMMENDATION METHOD BASED ON TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPHNovember 2024January 2025Allow300NoNo
18935032COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIERARCHIES OF CHATBOT APPLICATION PROGRAMS OPERATIVE BASED ON DATA STRUCTURES CONTAINING UNSTRUCTURED TEXTSNovember 2024February 2025Allow400YesNo
18932389DOCUMENT GENERATION SYSTEMOctober 2024June 2025Allow800NoNo
18926954SINGLE NAMESPACE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMOctober 2024February 2025Allow410YesNo
18924763INSTRUCTION-GUIDED VISUAL EMBEDDINGS AND FEEDBACK-BASED LEARNING IN LARGE VISION-LANGUAGE MODELSOctober 2024June 2025Allow800NoNo
18886129AI PLATFORM FOR PROCESSING AND QUERYING SPECIFIED OBJECTSSeptember 2024December 2024Allow200NoNo
18815857INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODAugust 2024April 2025Allow700NoNo
18815438SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED RULE-BASED ANNOTATION AND VALIDATION OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONAugust 2024April 2025Allow800NoNo
18809284MACHINE LEARNING-IMPLEMENTED CHAT BOT DATABASE QUERY SYSTEM FOR MULTI-FORMAT DATABASE QUERIESAugust 2024June 2025Allow1000NoNo
18805383Performance Optimization In Raft-Based Asynchronous Database Transaction ReplicationAugust 2024June 2025Allow1110YesNo
18798835DATA MANAGEMENT METHODS AND DEVICES BASED ON INDUSRTIAL INTERNETS OF THINGS (IIOT) AND ELECTRONIC DEVICESAugust 2024January 2025Allow500NoNo
18781283SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARRANGING CONTEXTUALLY RELATED MEDIA ASSETSJuly 2024March 2025Allow800NoNo
18778286DEEP LINKING USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEJuly 2024March 2025Allow800NoNo
18768077AUTOMATED PERSISTENCE OF LABEL INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A DOCUMENTJuly 2024April 2025Allow910NoNo
18763747SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEVELOPING AND ORGANIZING A KNOWLEDGE BASE COMPRISED OF DATA COLLECTED FROM MYRIAD SOURCESJuly 2024February 2025Allow710NoNo
18761828DYNAMIC OPERATOR PRUNING BASED ON STATE DEPENDENCIES AND INTERMEDIATE RESULTSJuly 2024June 2025Allow1110NoNo
18760744SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND RESOLVING PERFORMANCE ISSUES OF AUTOMATED COMPONENTSJuly 2024April 2025Allow900YesNo
18757749SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALABLE RANDOMIZED SELECTION WITH ENFORCED PROPORTIONALITY ACROSS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSJune 2024August 2024Allow200NoNo
18744858SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR AUTOMATING ACTIVATION OF DISPLAY OF INFORMATIONJune 2024January 2025Allow700NoNo
18744841SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS USING A TRAINED MODELJune 2024April 2025Allow1000NoNo
18743355FACILITATING QUERY EXECUTIONS VIA ROLE REASSIGNMENT MODALITY AND POWERJune 2024June 2025Allow1200NoNo
18744534ENHANCED SEARCH RESULT RELEVANCY FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMSJune 2024January 2025Allow800NoNo
18736976APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A HIERARCHICAL LISTING OF INFORMATION GAPSJune 2024May 2025Allow1200YesNo
18736134AUTOMATED DATA MAPPING USING SEMANTIC COMPARISONS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEJune 2024February 2025Allow900NoNo
18734841METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING REALITY CAPTURE DATAJune 2024April 2025Allow1010YesNo
18733579METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND PRODUCT FOR MEDIA CONTENT PROCESSINGJune 2024December 2024Allow610NoNo
18680956UTILIZING MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS TO GENERATE IDENTIFIER EMBEDDINGS AND DETERMINE DIGITAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DIGITAL CONTENT ITEMSMay 2024June 2025Allow1210YesNo
18678409SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY BUILDING DYNAMIC QUERIES FOR IDENTIFYING DATA IN UNSTRUCTURED DATASETSMay 2024January 2025Allow800NoNo
18672982DATA SPACE SCALABILITY FOR ALGORITHM TRAVERSALMay 2024August 2024Allow200YesNo
18671824GENERATING DIGITAL MEDIA BASED ON BLOCKCHAIN DATAMay 2024November 2024Allow610NoNo
18668578DATABASE REPLICATION USING A RESOURCE MANAGEMENT NODEMay 2024February 2025Allow910NoNo
18664033SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING WORKLOADS IN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASE ENVIRONMENTMay 2024June 2025Allow1310NoNo
18663616DATABASE SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING CUSTOMIZED MODELSMay 2024December 2024Allow700NoNo
18661309DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FEDERATED COMPUTINGMay 2024March 2025Allow1011YesNo
18655192SURFACING AUTOMATICALLY-SUGGESTED SEARCH QUERY RESULTS IN SEPARATE BROWSER TABS FOR IMPROVED MULTI-INTENT SEARCHINGMay 2024February 2025Allow910YesNo
18655024DELIVERING RESPONSES TO QUERIES EXPRESSED IN NATURAL LANGUAGE BASED ON A DYNAMIC DOCUMENT CORPUSMay 2024February 2025Allow900NoNo
18706649METHOD OF ASSESSING THE VALIDITY OF FACTUAL CLAIMSMay 2024March 2025Allow1100NoNo
18651020LANGUAGE DETECTION OF USER INPUT TEXT FOR ONLINE GAMINGApril 2024April 2025Allow1110NoNo
18647332AGGREGATION OF GLOBAL STORY BASED ON ANALYZED DATAApril 2024May 2025Allow1310YesNo
18646358METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO REDUCE LATENCY OF INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) OPERATIONS BASED ON FILE SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS DURING CREATION OF COMMON SNAPSHOTS FOR SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATED DATASETS OF A PRIMARY COPY OF DATA AT A PRIMARY STORAGE SYSTEM TO A MIRROR COPY OF THE DATA AT A CROSS-SITE SECONDARY STORAGE SYSTEMApril 2024April 2025Allow1210NoNo
18644213METHOD AND SYSTEM OF OPTIMIZING QUERY INPUT FOR GENERATING CODES USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELSApril 2024December 2024Allow800NoNo
18641994AUTOMATIC LOT CLASSIFICATIONApril 2024May 2025Allow1310YesNo
18638025TRANSACTION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUSApril 2024April 2025Allow1200NoNo
18638028SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COUNTERACTING DATA-SKEWNESS FOR LOCALITY SENSITIVE HASHING VIA FEATURE SELECTION AND PRUNINGApril 2024June 2025Allow1420YesNo
18636356Approximate Query Execution System That Bounds Query Execution Based on Runtime ConditionsApril 2024April 2025Allow1210NoNo
18632900LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED DATA OBJECT EXTRACTION AND VISUALIZATIONApril 2024January 2025Allow1000NoNo
18627150CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMApril 2024January 2025Allow900NoNo
18626067CLUSTERED METASEARCHApril 2024November 2024Allow700NoNo
18626072CLUSTERED METASEARCHApril 2024February 2025Allow1010NoNo
18622703CONTENT COLLABORATION PLATFORM WITH INTERFACE FOR CONDUCTING STRUCTURED QUERIES AND EMBEDDING ISSUE CONTENT OF AN ISSUE TRACKING PLATFORMMarch 2024December 2024Allow900NoNo
18696450METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING SCATTERED DATABASES AND ACCESSING COMPLEX DATA STRUCTURES FOR END-USER INTEGRATED PLATFORMSMarch 2024May 2025Allow1410NoNo
18612722BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH SEMANTIC MODEL INTEGRATIONMarch 2024February 2025Allow1110NoNo
18610863CROSS-ORGANIZATION & CROSS-CLOUD AUTOMATED DATA PIPELINESMarch 2024December 2024Allow900NoNo
18607923UPDATING DATA MODELS TO MANAGE DATA DRIFT AND OUTLIERSMarch 2024January 2025Allow1010YesNo
18608905DIRECT CLOUD STORAGE INTAKE AND UPLOAD ARCHITECTUREMarch 2024February 2025Allow1110NoNo
18605036DISINFECTION TRACKING NETWORKMarch 2024January 2025Allow1000NoNo
18600117APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATION OF AN INTEGRATED DATA FILEMarch 2024September 2024Allow600NoNo
18598195AUTOMATIC EXTENSION OF A PARTIALLY-EDITABLE DATASET COPYMarch 2024December 2024Allow1000NoNo
18597228DATA LANDING ZONE FRAMEWORKMarch 2024April 2025Allow1310NoNo
18592512SEARCH AND SEMANTIC SIMILARITY DOMAIN DETERMINATIONFebruary 2024December 2024Allow1000NoNo
18589855System and Method for Selecting Sponsored Images to Accompany TextFebruary 2024June 2025Allow1510NoNo
18588927IN-SITU TENANCY IN GRAPH-BASED MODELSFebruary 2024December 2024Allow1000NoNo
18589323DATASET CLUSTERING VIA LANGUAGE MODEL PROMPTSFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1410YesNo
18584048METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RE-REGISTERING PRE-REGISTERED IDENTITY INFORMATION IN NEW IDENTITY RECOGNITION SYSTEMFebruary 2024June 2025Allow1620NoNo
18584675SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR ENTITY RESOLUTIONFebruary 2024June 2025Allow1620NoNo
18583653SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR MANAGING AN EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, AND LOAD PROCESSFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1330YesNo
18582469INTELLIGENT CO-RELATION OF FILE SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONS EVENTS TO DERIVE ADAPTIVE FILE SYSTEM POLICIESFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310YesNo
18581930SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DATA TRANSFER ACCELERATIONFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1310NoNo
18442606PERSONAL INFORMATION DATABASE MODIFICATION AND MONITORINGFebruary 2024October 2024Allow810NoNo
18440410DIMENSION AND FACT TABLE CREATION USING TEMPLATESFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210NoNo
18440834DECENTRALIZED DATABASE ASSOCIATING PUBLIC KEYS AND COMMUNICATIONS ADDRESSESFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1410NoNo
18440439METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR SEARCHING FOR VIDEO CONTENTFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310YesNo
18438128REARRANGING TAGS ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) BASED ON KNOWN AND UNKNOWN LEVELS OF WEB TRAFFICFebruary 2024September 2024Allow700NoNo
18436898SYSTEM TO MANAGE DOCUMENT WORKFLOWSFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1410YesNo
18433608NET SETTLEMENT OF SUBROGATION CLAIMS USING A DISTRIBUTED LEDGERFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1410NoNo
18432489DATA OBJECT STORE AND SERVER FOR A CLOUD STORAGE ENVIRONMENTFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310NoNo
18431201SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELF-SERVICE DATA STRUCTURE DISCOVERYFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1620NoNo
18428740AUTOMATIC INDEX RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVED QUERY PERFORMANCEJanuary 2024December 2024Allow1100NoNo
18429144System And Method For Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) To Analyze Social Media ContentJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1310NoNo
18426482USE OF MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EXISTING DATA SETS TO PLAN FOR FUTURE PLUG & ABANDON, RE-USE AND DECOMMISSIONING ACTIVITIESJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1510YesNo
18425743DETECTING KEYBOARD ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES IN WEB APPLICATIONSJanuary 2024October 2024Allow800NoNo
18426186Search Tool for Exploring Quantifiable Trends in Line ChartsJanuary 2024September 2024Allow800NoNo
18425295ENRICHMENT OF SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEM GRAPH QUERIESJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1410YesNo
18425499DATA DEDUPLICATION USING MODULUS REDUCTION ARRAYSJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1310NoNo
18423541ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SEARCHING ENCRYPTED DATA AND METHODS THEREOFJanuary 2024June 2025Allow1710NoNo
18424532LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF SYSTEM LOG INFORMATIONJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1400NoNo
18424446MACHINE LEARNING-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ON-DEMAND GENERATION OF ANONYMIZED AND PRIVACY-ENABLED SYNTHETIC DATASETSJanuary 2024June 2025Abandon1710NoNo
18424724TECHNIQUES FOR ARCHIVED LOG DELETIONJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1210NoNo
18421233CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDATIONS IN A HEALTH MANAGEMENT PLATFORM USER INTERFACEJanuary 2024October 2024Allow910NoNo
18420255DYNAMIC COMPUTER-BASED INTERNET PROTOCOL CLASSIFICATIONJanuary 2024September 2024Allow800NoNo
18418991Anomalous Query Identification Using Query ClusteringJanuary 2024October 2024Allow900NoNo
18416379GENERATING MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR DOCUMENT EXTRACTIONJanuary 2024December 2024Allow1110YesNo
18415402PARALLELIZATION OF INCREMENTAL BACKUPSJanuary 2024August 2024Allow700NoNo
18415062TEXT-BASED MACHINE LEARNING EXTRACTION OF TABLE DATA FROM A READ-ONLY DOCUMENTJanuary 2024October 2024Allow900NoNo
18413846GENERATING A PERSONAL DATABASE ENTRY FOR A USER BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE USER INTERFACE INPUT OF THE USER AND GENERATING OUTPUT BASED ON THE ENTRY IN RESPONSE TO FURTHER NATURAL LANGUAGE USER INTERFACE INPUT OF THE USERJanuary 2024October 2024Allow900YesNo
18412663COMPUTING APPARATUSES, METHODS, SOFTWARE AND DATA STRUCTURES FOR STORING, INDEXING AND RETRIEVING DATA SUBJECT TO THE CONTINUOUS TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF HETEROGENEOUS BUSINESS PROCESSESJanuary 2024June 2024Allow500NoNo
18411836SUGGESTING CONTENT ITEMS TO BE ACCESSED BY A USERJanuary 2024December 2024Allow1110YesNo
18411854SECURITY EVENT CHARACTERIZATION AND RESPONSEJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1620YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2161.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
425
Examiner Affirmed
283
(66.6%)
Examiner Reversed
142
(33.4%)
Reversal Percentile
55.2%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 33.4% 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
1216
Allowed After Appeal Filing
359
(29.5%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
857
(70.5%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
30.5%
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, 29.5% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable 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 shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Art Unit 2161 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2161 is part of Group 2160 in Technology Center 2100. This art unit has examined 9,809 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 77.7%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 33 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2161's allowance rate of 77.7% places it in the 51% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has an above-average allowance rate compared to other art units.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Art Unit 2161 receive an average of 2.25 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 81% percentile). The median prosecution time is 33 months (in the 29% percentile).

Strategic Considerations

When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:

  • The art unit's allowance rate suggests a more favorable examination environment compared to the USPTO average.
  • With more office actions than average, plan for multiple rounds of prosecution.
  • The median prosecution time is longer than average and should be factored into your continuation and client communication strategies.
  • Review individual examiner statistics within this art unit to identify examiners with particularly favorable or challenging prosecution patterns.

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.