USPTO Art Unit 2168 Prosecution Statistics

Art Unit Information

Art Unit: 2168
Group: 2160
Tech Center: 2100
Total Cases: 9,046
Last Active: July 2025

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19258880SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED FIELD SERVICE ASSISTANCE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONSJuly 2025September 2025Allow310NoNo
19253777PLATFORM FOR AGENTIC AI CREATION, CONTEXTUALIZED ENTERPRISE DATA INTERACTION, AND ENTERPRISE MEMORYJune 2025January 2026Allow710NoNo
19252808SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSERVING TOKEN USE WITH A LANGUAGE MODEL FOR CONTEXTUAL ENTITY SELECTIONJune 2025January 2026Allow710YesNo
19233135RESOLVING COMPLEX MATCH CANDIDATES USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL EXPLANATIONS OF AMBIGUOUS FEATURESJune 2025December 2025Allow710YesNo
19195597SYNDICATED SEARCH WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE ONBOARDINGApril 2025August 2025Allow410YesNo
19193285METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A PROJECTION STRUCTURE USING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACEApril 2025September 2025Allow510YesNo
19094850System and Method for Generating Thoughts with Large Language Models Using CodewordsMarch 2025October 2025Allow610NoNo
19077926DECENTRALIZED TWO-PHASE COMMITMarch 2025March 2026Allow1210NoNo
19072597SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTRACT-BASED LOADING OF EXECUTABLE GRAPH-BASED MODELSMarch 2025January 2026Allow1000NoNo
19060292COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS CONFIGURED FOR GENERATING SEARCH QUERIES FOR A SEARCH ENGINE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOFFebruary 2025February 2026Allow1210NoNo
19050371Clean Room Generation for Data Collaboration and Executing Clean Room Task in Data Processing PipelineFebruary 2025January 2026Allow1100YesNo
19040432VECTOR EMBEDDING COMPRESSIONJanuary 2025November 2025Allow1000NoNo
19032880Music Release Disambiguation using Multi-Modal Neural NetworksJanuary 2025February 2026Allow1210NoNo
19031918Techniques for Providing an Upgraded Content ExperienceJanuary 2025March 2026Allow1410YesNo
19029473Audiovisual content curation systemJanuary 2025March 2026Allow1410NoNo
19030202UTILIZING PREDICTIVE MODELING TO IDENTIFY ANOMALY EVENTSJanuary 2025October 2025Allow900YesNo
19025761DATA LINEAGE BASED MULTI-DATA STORE RECOVERYJanuary 2025December 2025Allow1110NoNo
19019725METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EFFICIENT METADATA ANALYTICS IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMJanuary 2025October 2025Allow1000NoNo
19017199METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND READABLE MEDIUM FOR DOCUMENT QUERYJanuary 2025March 2026Allow1400YesNo
19014552Method for using chunks of change log data for comparing a source and a target database which are actively being kept in synchronization with each otherJanuary 2025October 2025Allow900NoNo
19007853DYNAMIC DATA EXTRACTION BASED ON KEY INFLUENCING FACTORSJanuary 2025November 2025Allow1100NoNo
19005664Sequential Consistency Across a Distributed Cloud Computing NetworkDecember 2024January 2026Allow1310YesNo
19005159PROCESSING SEARCH REQUESTSDecember 2024March 2026Allow1410NoNo
19004302Design Strategies to Prevent Data Hallucination in Large Language Models for the Medical FieldDecember 2024March 2026Abandon1510NoNo
18990055SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMING DATA INTO TABLE FORMATDecember 2024November 2025Allow1010YesNo
18989051DIRECTORY METADATA OPERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2024December 2025Allow1200YesNo
18985752DISTRIBUTED IN-DATABASE VECTORIZED OPERATIONS USING USER DEFINED TABLE FUNCTIONSDecember 2024August 2025Allow800NoNo
18985065Fast and Energy-Efficient K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) Search Accelerator for Large-Scale Point CloudDecember 2024March 2025Allow300NoNo
18985899COMPRESSION SCHEME FOR STABLE UNIVERSAL UNIQUE IDENTITIESDecember 2024November 2025Allow1110NoNo
18985660INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2024March 2026Allow1510YesNo
18984266METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS IN CLOUD-BASED DATA WAREHOUSING SYSTEMDecember 2024November 2025Allow1110NoNo
18984605GUIDED WEB CRAWLER FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION OF WEBPAGE RESOURCESDecember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18984478MEMORY EFFICIENT MULTI-VERSIONED CONCURRENCY FOR A HYPERCUBE MEMORY CACHE USING FORMULA SNAPSHOTSDecember 2024March 2026Allow1410YesNo
18983174DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION USING STRUCTURED DATA TABLES AND NODAL NETWORKSDecember 2024December 2025Allow1210NoNo
18981904METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VECTOR RETRIEVAL ACCELERATIONDecember 2024February 2026Allow1410NoNo
18981142DATA DISPLAY METHOD, READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEDecember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18979191DATA SEARCH AND ANALYSIS FOR DATA SYSTEMSDecember 2024January 2026Allow1310NoNo
18977580SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED STANDARDIZATION OF HETEROGENEOUS DATA USING MACHINE LEARNINGDecember 2024January 2026Allow1410YesNo
18977258EFFICIENT SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISMS FOR GRAPH DATABASESDecember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18976766SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGDecember 2024April 2025Allow410NoNo
18977112SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGDecember 2024April 2025Allow510NoNo
18976960SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGDecember 2024April 2025Allow410NoNo
18976654SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICAL SYMMETRY BREAKINGDecember 2024April 2025Allow410NoNo
18977104QUERY PLAN VIEW FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGEMENT OF DATABASE QUERY PLANSDecember 2024November 2025Allow1100NoNo
18976038INFERRING SCHEMA STRUCTURE OF FLAT FILEDecember 2024November 2025Allow1110NoNo
18873692DATABASE SYSTEM, AND PRIMARY DATABASE ELECTION METHODS AND APPARATUSESDecember 2024February 2026Allow1410NoNo
18975914SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATING TIME-SERIES DATA STREAMS BASED ON POTENTIAL STATE CHARACTERISTICS FOLLOWING AGGREGATIONDecember 2024March 2026Allow1520YesNo
18966152DOCUMENTATION RECORD RETRIEVAL AND TRANSACTION MATCHINGDecember 2024March 2026Allow1510YesNo
18966625PROVIDING CACHED DATABASE VIEWS THAT INCLUDE DYNAMIC CONDITIONSDecember 2024September 2025Allow1000NoNo
18871041METHOD FOR FILTERING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON SEARCH TERMS IN CONTEXTDecember 2024August 2025Allow810NoNo
18963094AUTOMATIC DATA RETRIEVAL AND SYNCHRONIZATION BASED ON CRAWLING AND INDEXING PRIVATE API DATANovember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18963347Presenting Related Content while Browsing and Searching ContentNovember 2024January 2026Allow1410NoNo
18961285Method and computer program product for detecting and preventing successful attacks at endpoints in a Validation Architecture systemNovember 2024March 2025Allow410NoNo
18961186MATRIX USER INTERFACE FOR LLM-POWERED DATA ANALYSIS AND GENERATIONNovember 2024June 2025Allow610YesNo
18959298SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR INDEXING AND DATA COMPACTIONNovember 2024February 2026Abandon1410NoNo
18957779METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A PROJECTION STRUCTURE USING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACENovember 2024January 2025Allow200NoNo
18954755DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING FIRMOGRAPHIC SEARCH THROUGH QUERY UNDERSTANDING AND EXPANSIONNovember 2024September 2025Allow1000NoNo
18867222LARGE-SCALE RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGNovember 2024January 2026Allow1410YesNo
18952581AUTO COLLECTION PROCESSINGNovember 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18952487Application Prediction Based on a Visual Search DeterminationNovember 2024January 2026Allow1410NoNo
18866909PLAN EXECUTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASENovember 2024September 2025Allow1000YesNo
18948698AUTOMATED EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, AND LOAD PROCESSNovember 2024March 2026Allow1610YesNo
18948754System And Method For Query Resource CachingNovember 2024October 2025Allow1110YesNo
18948823UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX JOINS BY LEVERAGING JOIN DATA IDENTIFIERSNovember 2024September 2025Allow1000NoNo
18948835METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT HOTSPOTSNovember 2024September 2025Allow1000YesNo
18945371Auto Computation of Counters and Last-N features across High Cardinality Dimensions in Distributed SystemsNovember 2024March 2026Allow1600NoNo
18939662ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED (AI-BASED) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING NEWS ARTICLES IN A BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEMNovember 2024March 2026Abandon1610NoNo
18938349GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (GAI) REUSE SERVICE FOR INTEGRATION OF GAI INTO APPLICATION SCENARIOSNovember 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18939356SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIRMING MEETING EVENTS USING ELECTRONIC ACTIVITIESNovember 2024March 2026Abandon1610NoNo
18938244SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARMONIZED PRODUCT CLASSIFICATIONNovember 2024February 2026Allow1510NoNo
18937780SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF DATANovember 2024October 2025Allow1110NoNo
18937011CLICK-TO-SCRIPT REFLECTIONNovember 2024January 2026Allow1410YesNo
18936450METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATASETS FOR TRAINING AN EVALUATION ALGORITHM, METHOD FOR TRAINING AN EVALUATION ALGORITHM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AN ALIGNMENT OF TWO MAP DATASETSNovember 2024July 2025Allow800NoNo
18933628Validating Integrity of Replicated DataOctober 2024August 2025Allow910NoNo
18933061SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPORTS ABILITY RATINGSOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510YesNo
18933621APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TO GENERATE A MATCH SCORE USING PROFILE DATA AND REFERENCE DATAOctober 2024July 2025Allow920YesNo
18929913METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REPLICATING DATAOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18930928UTILIZING PREDICTIVE MODELING TO IDENTIFY ANOMALY EVENTSOctober 2024August 2025Allow1010NoNo
18860966DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A HIGHLY-SCALABLE, EFFICIENT COMPOSITE RECORD INDEXOctober 2024February 2025Allow400YesNo
18928381DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON PREFRACTAL GRAPHSOctober 2024December 2025Abandon1410NoNo
18926514Indexing Constituent DataOctober 2024July 2025Allow800NoNo
18927575METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMING DATA USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO GENERATE CONTENTOctober 2024August 2025Allow1020NoNo
18925718Searching for Segments Based on an OntologyOctober 2024February 2026Allow1610NoNo
18924532METADATA DETERMINATION AND STORAGE METHODOctober 2024February 2026Allow1510YesNo
18921387INTERACTIVE DATA FIELD ANALYZEROctober 2024September 2025Allow1000NoNo
18921919ON-DEMAND FILE TYPE-SPECIFIC GENERATION OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONSOctober 2024May 2025Allow700NoNo
18918887Real-Time Micro-Profile Generation Using a Dynamic Tree StructureOctober 2024June 2025Allow800NoNo
18919264Distributed Graph Analysis with Atomic TransactionsOctober 2024August 2025Allow1000NoNo
18917526SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL MATCHING WITH PARTIAL, CONDITIONAL IMAGE REVEALOctober 2024July 2025Allow900NoNo
18856799INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND OPTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUSOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18913102METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING, NAVIGATING, AND PRESENTING COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS IN CONTENTOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18912882TRANSACTION EXCHANGE PLATFORM HAVING CONFIGURABLE MICROSERVICESOctober 2024October 2025Allow1210NoNo
18907927LIVE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DATABASE DISASTER RECOVERYOctober 2024July 2025Allow900NoNo
18908588AUTOMATIC DATA STORE ARCHITECTURE DETECTIONOctober 2024October 2025Allow1210NoNo
18906194SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA INTEGRATIONOctober 2024September 2025Allow1120YesNo
18905836PERSONAL DATA AND AI SYSTEM INTEGRATIONOctober 2024February 2026Abandon1710NoNo
18903826CLOUD CAPACITY SCALING IN METADATA SPACE CONSTRAINED DEDUPLICATION SYSTEMSOctober 2024September 2025Allow1100NoNo
18903946METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REGULATORY EXPLORATION PRESERVING BANDWIDTH AND IMPROVING COMPUTING PERFORMANCEOctober 2024March 2025Allow510YesNo
18902195QUERY-EXECUTION PLANNING USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGSeptember 2024November 2025Allow1410YesNo
18899251FEEDBACK-BASED MULTIMODAL FRAGMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEMSeptember 2024November 2025Allow1410YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2168.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
426
Examiner Affirmed
296
(69.5%)
Examiner Reversed
130
(30.5%)
Reversal Percentile
40.5%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 30.5% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage 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
1127
Allowed After Appeal Filing
335
(29.7%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
792
(70.3%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
34.1%
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, 29.7% 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 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.

Art Unit 2168 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2168 is part of Group 2160 in Technology Center 2100. This art unit has examined 9,046 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 73.5%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 37 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2168's allowance rate of 73.5% places it in the 41% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has a below-average allowance rate compared to other art units.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Art Unit 2168 receive an average of 2.59 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 89% percentile). The median prosecution time is 37 months (in the 23% percentile).

Strategic Considerations

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

  • The art unit's allowance rate suggests a more challenging 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.