Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18438062 | CREATION OF A DIGITAL TWIN FOR AUTO-DISCOVERY OF HIERARCHY IN POWER MONITORING | February 2024 | June 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18389783 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR MULTI-CHIP NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM BASED ON FPGA MAIN CONTROL | December 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18538647 | SELECTIVE CONFIGURATION OF FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT FOR PROCESSING RESOURCES OF A DATABASE SYSTEM | December 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18510144 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING CLOUD SERVICES ON DEMAND | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18508479 | STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | November 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18378385 | HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTE DOMAINS WITH AN EMBEDDED OPERATING SYSTEM IN AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM | October 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18373968 | CHIP HAVING DUAL-MODE DEVICE THAT SWITCHES BETWEEN ROOT COMPLEX MODE AND ENDPOINT MODE IN DIFFERENT SYSTEM STAGES AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER SYSTEM | September 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471844 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | September 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18236732 | SYNCHRONIZING SYSTEMS ON A CHIP USING A SHARED CLOCK | August 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18447263 | ERGONOMIC AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE POWER SUPPLIES FOR COMPUTERS | August 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18446714 | HYBRID APPARATUSES FOR MINING CRYPTOCURRENCY AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME | August 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18230466 | PROVIDING ENERGY INFORMATION TO MEMORY | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18362483 | TIME CALIBRATION FOR A MULTI-SOCKET COMPUTING SYSTEM | July 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17666420 | Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) within Processor Clusters | July 2023 | June 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18222808 | LOW-POWER SOURCE-SYNCHRONOUS SIGNALING | July 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18352053 | CREATION OF A DIGITAL TWIN FOR AUTO-DISCOVERY OF HIERARCHY IN POWER MONITORING | July 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18220120 | VIRTUAL MACHINE BOOT DATA PREDICTION | July 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18216987 | PROGRAMMABLE MESSAGE INSPECTION ENGINE IMPLEMENTED IN HARDWARE THAT GENERATES AN OUTPUT MESSAGE USING A CONTENT MODIFICATION PLAN AND A DESTINATION CONTROL PLAN | June 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18343725 | Power over Ethernet (PoE) Power Supplying via Two Sets of Cable Pairs | June 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18212866 | CREDIT SYNCHRONIZATION BY SENDING A VALUE FOR A LOCAL CREDIT IN A MESSAGE SENDER FROM A MESSAGE RECEIVER TO THE MESSAGE SENDER IN RESPONSE TO A SYNCHRONIZATION TRIGGER | June 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18212972 | ARTICLE, DEVICE, AND TECHNIQUES FOR SERVERLESS MESSAGE STREAM PROCESSING | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18337449 | POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT, SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DEVICE, AND METHOD OF POWER MANAGEMENT | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18207437 | TIMING GENERATOR AS MASTER CLOCK FOR AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT | June 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18207297 | POWER CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTING RESOURCES | June 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18329492 | CONFIGURATION OF BASE CLOCK FREQUENCY OF PROCESSOR BASED ON USAGE PARAMETERS | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18326506 | METHOD FOR TROUBLESHOOTING ABNORMAL SENSOR IN ENERGY-STORAGE APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18326378 | DYNAMIC COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT CHANNEL ENABLEMENT | May 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18039482 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING MMIOH BASE ADDRESS OF SERVER SYSTEM | May 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18202889 | MEMORY, MEMORY CONTROLLING METHOD AND SYSTEM | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18324412 | TECHNIQUES FOR RELEASE ASSISTANCE INDICATION ASSERTION | May 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18322183 | SIGNAL BRIDGING USING AN UNPOPULATED PROCESSOR INTERCONNECT | May 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18320676 | OPERATION-SPECIFIC DEVICE CONFIGURATION | May 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18320384 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD TO SET DELAY BETWEEN TWO PERIODIC SIGNALS WITH UNKNOWN PHASE RELATIONSHIP | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18197536 | NETWORKS ON CHIP (NOC) FOR MANY-CORE NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR | May 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18317043 | FAST BOOT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES | May 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18315032 | ADVANCED BUS PROTOCOL FOR DYNAMIC LIGHTING | May 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18313625 | Powered Device Electrical Data Modeling And Intelligence | May 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18143782 | DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE FUNGIBILITY AND BOOTSTRAPPING | May 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18309103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A COMMANDER DEVICE AND A RESPONDER DEVICE | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18250948 | Protection System and Method for Abnormal Power Down of Child Node in Rack-Scale Server, and Apparatus | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18308029 | Just-in-Time Containers | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18307469 | SYNCING SETTINGS ACROSS INCOMPATIBLE OPERATING SYSTEMS | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18307341 | ASYMMETRIC DATA TRANSMISSION USING ENERGY-EFFICIENT ETHERNET | April 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18307508 | Power Management Unit | April 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18138580 | SCALABLE LIFE-CYCLE MAINTENANCE OF HARDWARE | April 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18305661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLOCK-FREQUENCY-BASED DESIGN PROCESS FRAMEWORK FOR DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS CHIP | April 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18305624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVITY-BASED DESIGN PROCESS FRAMEWORK FOR DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS CHIP | April 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18304849 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT TRANSITIONING TO AND FROM REDUCED POWER STATE | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18298587 | ENHANCED LOW-PRIORITY ARBITRATION | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18132828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE INTEROPERABILITY AND SYNCHRONIZATION | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18297388 | Systems and Methods for Providing Back-Up Power to a Processor Using an Un-Interruptible Power Supply | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18297313 | TOUCH SENSING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYSTEM, TOUCH SENSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR WRITING FIRMWARE | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18296402 | WIRE FAULT AND ELECTRICAL IMBALANCE DETECTION FOR POWER OVER COMMUNICATIONS CABLING | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18129959 | Low-Latency Low-Power Consumption Peripheral Device for Conferencing | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18192300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OPERATION INFORMATION TO CONFIGURABLE DEVICES | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18185421 | MODULAR EMBEDDED COMPUTE APPLIANCE DOCKING BOARD, AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE SAME | March 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18026672 | DEVICE SYNCHRONOUS CALIBRATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICES, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18121392 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF A TRANSFER OF DATA SIGNALS BETWEEN CIRCUITS WHEN A CLOCK IN A DESTINATION CIRCUIT IS OFF | March 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18026014 | DELAY SYNCHRONIZATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18180219 | NETWORK-BASED POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | March 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18179675 | METHOD FOR REDUCING UPS COMPONENT STRESSES DURING TRANSITION FROM INVERTER TO GREEN/BYPASS OPERATION | March 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18043422 | SAFETY CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AI SERVER | February 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18176473 | BOOTSTRAPPING A MICROSERVICES REGISTRY | February 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18043432 | PECI SIGNAL INTERCONNECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVER, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | February 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18114617 | STATUS CHECK USING SIGNALING FROM A MEMORY DEVICE | February 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18113637 | TRANSMITTER OF A WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM | February 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18173656 | AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CONTROLLER PARALLEL PROCESSOR BOOT ORDER | February 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18172057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SETTINGS BASED UPON INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM (IHS) MOTION USING HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORMS | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18111925 | CLOCK SYNCHRONIZING METHOD OF A MULTIPLE CLOCK DOMAIN MEMORY DEVICE | February 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18171225 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | February 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171150 | PROVIDING SYSTEM INVENTORY DATA FROM A FIRMWARE TO A BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER USING AN OEM-DEFINED UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIER | February 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18110667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OVER THE AIR (OTA) RECOVERY OF BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM (BIOS) FIRMWARE | February 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18110072 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING MEMORY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE PERFORMING THE METHOD | February 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18109935 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO GENERATE AN EVENT WHEN A SERIAL INTERFACE IS DISCONNECTED | February 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18169274 | CURRENT PREDICTION-BASED INSTRUCTION THROTTLING CONTROL | February 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18021127 | DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA IN A DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM | February 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18167976 | POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | February 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166157 | VISUAL OR ACOUSTIC PROJECT SUPPORT IN USING AN ELECTRIC APPLIANCE WITH A BATTERY PACK | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18165812 | MEMORY SYSTEM FOR UPDATING FIRMWARE WHEN SPO OCCURS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | February 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18165462 | SELECTIVE OPERATING SYSTEM CONFIGURATION OF PROCESSING RESOURCES OF A DATABASE SYSTEM | February 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18165512 | DISCRETE POWER CONTROL OF COMPONENTS WITHIN A COMPUTER SYSTEM | February 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18106578 | AUTOMATED POWER-RELATED DEVICE USAGE DETERMINATIONS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18105258 | MEMORY STRUCTURE | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18163469 | Rollback Resistant Security | February 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18102996 | SYNCHRONIZING A DEVICE THAT HAS BEEN POWER CYCLED TO AN ALREADY OPERATIONAL SYSTEM | January 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18161102 | COMMUNICATING A DESIRED POWER STATE TO A POWER STAGE FROM A PHASE CONTROLLER IN A POWER SUPPLY | January 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18102568 | MULTIPLE DIES HARDWARE PROCESSORS AND METHODS | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18160291 | Decentralized Power Architecture | January 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 17 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18100746 | MANAGING PERSISTENT ENROLLMENT OF A USER DEVICE | January 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18098838 | CUSTOMIZED FIT IMAGE DESCRIPTORS FOR RESOURCES STORED OVER THE NETWORK | January 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18099077 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | January 2023 | June 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18098650 | EXPANSION APPARATUS WITH POWER MANAGEMENT FUNCTION | January 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18096850 | A DYNAMIC POWER SHARING DUAL USB TYPE C AND POWER DELIVERY RECEPTACLE | January 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18096098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING TIMED FUNCTIONS IN A WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICE | January 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18096095 | PROGRAMMABLE HOT PLUG-IN CONTROLLER FOR A MULTIDROP DIFFERENTIAL SERIAL BUS | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18153666 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING DETECTION OF TYPE-C USB CONNECTIONS | January 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18005183 | CONTROLLERS TO DRIVE POWER CIRCUITS BASED ON CURRENTS DRAWN | January 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18152581 | Active Power Edge Device and Element Manager | January 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18151717 | PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS AMONG COMMUNICATION FABRIC COUPLED ENDPOINT DEVICES | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18093907 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING POWER TO LOW POWER SYSTEMS | January 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2186.
With a 40.3% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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, 39.7% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Art Unit 2186 is part of Group 2180 in Technology Center 2100. This art unit has examined 8,082 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 83.1%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.
Art Unit 2186's allowance rate of 83.1% places it in the 71% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has an above-average allowance rate compared to other art units.
Applications in Art Unit 2186 receive an average of 1.79 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 46% percentile). The median prosecution time is 30 months (in the 43% percentile).
When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:
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