USPTO Art Unit 2196 Prosecution Statistics

Art Unit Information

Art Unit: 2196
Group: 2190
Tech Center: 2100
Total Cases: 8,661
Last Active: December 2024

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18878029TASK SCHEDULING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2024March 2025Allow300YesNo
18991123Apparatus and Methods for Generating A Technical Debt Management and Data Management MachineDecember 2024February 2025Allow200YesNo
18988714PROCESSING TASK DISTRIBUTION AND RECOVERYDecember 2024February 2025Allow200YesNo
18988734Machine Learning Technique for Efficiently Scheduling Tasks for Large-Scale Analysis of Binary ExecutablesDecember 2024April 2025Allow410YesNo
18969593HARDWARE APPARATUS FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATIONSDecember 2024February 2025Allow200NoNo
18951880SECURITY INCIDENT & EVENT MANAGEMENT CASE CREATION SYSTEM AND METHODNovember 2024January 2025Allow200YesNo
18939286DATA RESOURCE HEALTH MAINTENANCE METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICENovember 2024January 2025Allow300YesNo
18922050SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AI AGENTS USING CENTRAL AGENT NAME AND ATTRIBUTE REGISTRYOctober 2024January 2025Allow300NoNo
18922360COMPLEX COMPUTING NETWORK FOR CONTROLLING COMPUTING OPERATIONS BASED ON A COMPUTING LOADOctober 2024July 2025Allow810NoNo
18906863COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTATION INTEGRATED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE AND RESOURCE ADAPTATION METHODOctober 2024January 2025Allow300NoNo
18905078Machine Learning Technique for Efficiently Scheduling Tasks for Large-Scale Analysis of Binary ExecutablesOctober 2024December 2024Allow200NoNo
18901209METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER-AIDED EXECUTION OF A TECHNICAL PROCESS IN PROCESSING UNITS, COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2024June 2025Allow900YesNo
18844249Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Dynamic Data Allocation to Nodes in Distributed SystemsSeptember 2024March 2025Allow600YesNo
18817035METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATIONAugust 2024February 2025Allow610NoNo
18794248SECURITY INCIDENT & EVENT MANAGEMENT CASE CREATION SYSTEM AND METHODAugust 2024October 2024Allow300NoNo
18785954SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE ADAPTIVE RESOURCE CAPACITY PREDICTION AND CONTROL USING CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURESJuly 2024December 2024Allow400YesNo
18785993SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE ADAPTIVE RESOURCE CAPACITY PREDICTION AND CONTROL USING CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES WITH A CAPACITY PREDICTION INTERFACEJuly 2024December 2024Allow510YesNo
18759563METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF SCHEDULING COMPUTER PROCESSES OR TASKS IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMJune 2024February 2025Allow700YesNo
18756694SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MULTI-COMPONENT, MULTI-DEPLOYMENT INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE CONFIGURATIONS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMSJune 2024January 2025Allow710YesNo
18757455Apparatus and Methods for Generating A Technical Debt Management and Data Management MachineJune 2024August 2024Allow200NoNo
18748682OPTIMIZING CLOUD INSTANCES WITH SMART AVAILABILITY ZONE FAILOVERJune 2024March 2025Allow920YesNo
18745889SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USING CONTAINER LAYERS TO FACILITATE CLOUD RESOURCE SHARING AND DECREASE STARTUP TIMESJune 2024May 2025Allow1110NoNo
18745825OFFLOADING PACKET PROCESSING PROGRAMS FROM VIRTUAL MACHINES TO A HYPERVISOR AND EFFICIENTLY EXECUTING THE OFFLOADED PACKET PROCESSING PROGRAMSJune 2024March 2025Allow900YesNo
18739658SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBSERVING AND PREDICTING DATA BATCH ACTIVITY IN REAL TIMEJune 2024September 2024Allow310NoNo
18734459NOTICED-BASED RESOURCE SITE CURTAILMENTJune 2024August 2024Allow300NoNo
18733588OPERATIONAL VALUE OPTIMIZATION FOR DATA CENTER POWER AND COMPUTATIONAL LOADJune 2024September 2024Allow410YesNo
18680247DIFFERENTIAL CONTROL OF AGGREGATED CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE ASSETSMay 2024March 2025Allow1020YesNo
18677805METHOD, AN APPARATUS, AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETECTING VIRTUAL MACHINE LOADMay 2024August 2024Allow200NoNo
18669635MANAGING COMPUTER WORKLOADS ACROSS DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING CLUSTERSMay 2024February 2025Allow910YesNo
18653936MAGNIFYING RESOURCES FOR A LOCATIONMay 2024July 2024Allow300YesNo
18639016METHOD, DEVICE, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE FOR REQUEST PROCESSINGApril 2024June 2024Allow200YesNo
18637362DYNAMICALLY VALIDATING AI APPLICATIONS FOR COMPLIANCEApril 2024August 2024Allow410YesNo
18636749DISAGGREGATED COMPUTING FOR DISTRIBUTED CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTApril 2024April 2025Allow1210NoNo
18636927MANAGING A DIGITAL ASSISTANT WORKFLOWApril 2024February 2025Allow1020NoNo
18635240System And Method For Upgrading Sparkline Cluster With Zero DowntimeApril 2024June 2025Allow1410YesNo
18635907SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTO-SCALING A VIRTUAL DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTApril 2024November 2024Allow700YesNo
18627375SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF COMPUTE RESOURCES VIA A MACHINE LEARNING-INFORMED FEEDBACK SEQUENCEApril 2024September 2024Allow610YesNo
18625771MANYCORE SYSTEMApril 2024September 2024Allow610YesNo
18624288ADAPTIVE CPU USAGE MECHANISM FOR NETWORKING SYSTEM IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTApril 2024April 2025Allow1310NoNo
18621895COMMAND PROCESSOR, NEURAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA THEREOFMarch 2024December 2024Allow910NoNo
18621936COMMAND PROCESSOR, NEURAL CORE SOC AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING CONTEXT DATA USING THE SAMEMarch 2024October 2024Allow710NoNo
18622214NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICE, NEURAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING COMMAND BRANCH OF NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICEMarch 2024August 2024Allow400YesNo
18597070SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO/AUDIO PRODUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE TO OPTIMIZE UNUSED CAPACITYMarch 2024April 2025Allow1310YesNo
18585018SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZATION OF WORKFLOW DESIGNFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1210NoNo
18584281VIRTUAL SERVER AGENT LOAD BALANCINGFebruary 2024January 2025Allow1110NoNo
18441697ON-CHIP COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR A HETEROGENOUS SYSTEMFebruary 2024December 2024Allow1020YesNo
18437065TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND STORAGEFebruary 2024September 2024Allow710YesNo
18437039TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND STORAGEFebruary 2024July 2024Allow610NoNo
18434110System and Method for Queuing Work within a Virtualized Scheduler Based on In-Unit Accounting of In-Unit EntriesFebruary 2024September 2024Allow700YesNo
18428778GENERATING FAULT CONDITIONS USING A FAULT-ENABLED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KITJanuary 2024February 2025Allow1310NoNo
18421848SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-THREADED PROCESSING FOR EXECUTING MULTIPLE WORKLOADS WITH INTERFERENCE PREVENTIONJanuary 2024July 2024Allow610YesNo
18417445METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING THREADS IN MANYCOREJanuary 2024July 2024Allow610NoNo
18416481SMARTNIC BASED VIRTUAL SPLITTER ENSURING MICROSECOND LATENCIESJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1600NoNo
18412105EXECUTION OF AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS IN AN ON-DEMAND NETWORK CODE EXECUTION SYSTEMJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1310NoNo
18405380System in the Middle Transaction ProcessorJanuary 2024December 2024Allow1110NoNo
18402659COMPLEX COMPUTING NETWORK FOR CONTROLLING COMPUTING OPERATIONS BASED ON A COMPUTING LOADJanuary 2024May 2024Allow400NoNo
18574436Vehicle, Computing System, Operating Method of Computing System and Computer ProgramDecember 2023June 2025Allow1810YesNo
18395473TRANSACTION SCHEDULING FOR A USER DATA CACHE BY ASSESSING UPDATE CRITERIADecember 2023March 2025Allow1410NoNo
18544348HIGHLY EFFICIENT INEXACT COMPUTING STORAGE DEVICEDecember 2023April 2025Allow1610YesNo
18541063SOFTWARE LOG PROCESSING METHODDecember 2023July 2024Allow720NoNo
18540196VIRTUAL MACHINE BACKUP FROM COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT TO STORAGE ENVIRONMENTDecember 2023March 2025Allow1610YesNo
18540004UTILIZING KEY VALUE-BASED RECORD DISTRIBUTION DATA TO PERFORM PARALLELIZED SEGMENT GENERATION IN A DATABASE SYSTEMDecember 2023July 2024Allow700NoNo
18539646SELECTING A CUSTOM FUNCTION FROM AVAILABLE CUSTOM FUNCTIONS TO BE ADDED INTO A PLAYBOOKDecember 2023July 2024Allow700NoNo
18538171DISAGGREGATED COMPUTING FOR DISTRIBUTED CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTDecember 2023October 2024Allow1010NoNo
18531837CENTRALIZED RATE LIMITERDecember 2023September 2024Allow920YesNo
18527578TRANSITIONING VOLUMES BETWEEN STORAGE VIRTUAL MACHINESDecember 2023April 2025Allow1610YesNo
18525263SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING CRAFTING PARAMETERS BASED ON USER USAGE RATE OF A VIRTUAL SPACENovember 2023May 2025Allow1830YesNo
18525748Managing Resources of a System Based on Hardware Transactional MemoryNovember 2023February 2025Allow1410NoNo
18517830COMPUTATIONAL GRAPH CRITICAL SECTIONSNovember 2023March 2025Allow1610NoNo
18515811Visual Cluster Deployment and Operation System and MethodNovember 2023December 2024Allow1320YesNo
18516173Asynchronous Object Manager In A Network Routing EnvironmentNovember 2023January 2025Allow1410NoNo
18514981ALLOCATING COMPUTING RESOURCES BASED ON USER INTENTNovember 2023August 2024Allow900YesNo
18511296DISAGGREGATED COMPUTING FOR DISTRIBUTED CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTNovember 2023August 2024Allow910NoNo
18511962CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT AND ORCHESTRATION OF FEATURE PROCESSING UNITS IN A MANAGED CLOUD AND A PROVIDER NETWORK FOR CONSISTENT DATA PROCESSINGNovember 2023October 2024Allow1110NoNo
18389290SAFE MODULAR UPGRADESNovember 2023September 2024Allow1010NoNo
18508155ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGING I/O AND STORAGE FOR A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENTNovember 2023December 2024Allow1310NoNo
18290280A FAIR TASK OFFLOADING AND MIGRATION METHOD FOR EDGE SERVICE NETWORKSNovember 2023June 2024Allow700NoNo
18505626PIPELINE TASK VERIFICATION FOR A DATA PROCESSING PLATFORMNovember 2023June 2024Allow710NoNo
18387912ANALYSIS ASSISTANT FOR DETERMINING EXECUTION INEFFICIENCIES IN DATAFLOW PROGRAMSNovember 2023May 2025Allow1810YesNo
18387906METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETERMINE EXECUTION INEFFICIENCIES IN DATAFLOW PROGRAMSNovember 2023March 2025Allow1610YesNo
18387053MULTI-HYPERVISOR VIRTUAL MACHINES THAT RUN ON MULTIPLE CO-LOCATED HYPERVISORSNovember 2023February 2025Allow1620NoNo
18499901CLUSTER NODE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMNovember 2023January 2024Allow300YesNo
18498999METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING CONTROL FLOW PATTERNS IN SOFTWARE CODE TO DETECT SOFTWARE ANOMALIESOctober 2023May 2024Allow610NoNo
18497260AUTOSCALING AND THROTTLING IN AN ELASTIC CLOUD SERVICEOctober 2023October 2024Allow1110NoNo
18496415SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO GENERATE MACHINE-EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS CONFIGURED TO PRESENT DATA IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTSOctober 2023June 2024Allow710NoNo
18495125PROVIDING DEVICE ABSTRACTIONS TO APPLICATIONS INSIDE A VIRTUAL MACHINEOctober 2023June 2024Allow700YesNo
18494002METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR EXECUTING TASKS, STORAGE MEDIUMS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICESOctober 2023May 2024Allow710NoNo
18492355Event processing in a distributed computing environmentOctober 2023October 2024Allow1200NoNo
18555149ALGORITHM SELECTION FOR PROCESSOR-CONTROLLED DEVICEOctober 2023June 2025Abandon2020NoYes
18483375System and Method for Assigning TasksOctober 2023December 2024Allow1410NoNo
18377525GATEWAY DEVICE FOR INTEGRALLY PROCESSING APIS WITH SECURITY FUNCTION, AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAMEOctober 2023January 2024Allow410NoNo
18554450METHOD AND APPARATUS OF EXECUTING COLLABORATIVE JOB FOR SPARK FACED TO MULTIPLE K8S CLUSTERSOctober 2023January 2024Allow300NoNo
18477117Synchronization Method and ApparatusSeptember 2023April 2024Allow711NoNo
18463964METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A STEP-ENABLED WORKFLOWSeptember 2023April 2025Allow2010YesNo
18461476EDGE DEPLOYMENT OF CLOUD-ORIGINATED MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORKLOADSSeptember 2023February 2024Allow610NoNo
18240499ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO NBMP STANDARDAugust 2023September 2024Allow1210NoNo
18239977CRYPTOMINING HEAT MANAGEMENTAugust 2023May 2024Allow810NoNo
18452283PROTECTED REGIONS MANAGEMENT OF MEMORYAugust 2023April 2025Allow2020YesNo
18234069ADAPTING SCRIPTS FROM A SOURCE PLATFORM TO BE UTILIZED IN A TARGET PLATFORMAugust 2023April 2025Allow2000NoNo
18546544METHOD FOR ASSESSING A SOFTWARE FOR A CONTROL UNIT OF A VEHICLEAugust 2023May 2025Allow2100NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2196.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
154
Examiner Affirmed
124
(80.5%)
Examiner Reversed
30
(19.5%)
Reversal Percentile
3.1%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 19.5% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
484
Allowed After Appeal Filing
206
(42.6%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
278
(57.4%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
89.9%
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, 42.6% 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.

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.

Art Unit 2196 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2196 is part of Group 2190 in Technology Center 2100. This art unit has examined 8,661 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 85.1%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 29 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2196's allowance rate of 85.1% places it in the 79% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has a significantly higher allowance rate than most art units at the USPTO.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Art Unit 2196 receive an average of 1.81 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 49% percentile). The median prosecution time is 29 months (in the 48% 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 fewer office actions than average, plan for relatively streamlined 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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