USPTO Art Unit 2426 Prosecution Statistics

Art Unit Information

Art Unit: 2426
Group: 2420
Tech Center: 2400
Total Cases: 6,916
Last Active: September 2025

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19329380PLATFORM TO MANIPULATE GOLF DATA TO ENABLE CREATION OF BROADCAST PRODUCTION GRAPHICSSeptember 2025January 2026Allow400NoNo
19298811VIDEO CONTENT DELIVERY METHODSAugust 2025December 2025Allow400NoNo
19246756LIVE STREAMING-BASED INTERACTIVE METHOD AND SYSTEMJune 2025December 2025Allow610NoNo
19141073SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS DIGITAL IMAGE CALIBRATIONJune 2025January 2026Allow700NoNo
19133259DEFECT INSPECTION SYSTEM AND DEFECT INSPECTION METHODMay 2025February 2026Allow910NoNo
19218977SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERMISSIONS CONTROL IN LIVE-STREAMINGMay 2025September 2025Allow400YesNo
19210384SMART PLAYLISTMay 2025August 2025Allow300YesNo
19195876Systems and Methods for Real-Time Streaming of Three-Dimensional Content Using Different Encoding FormatsMay 2025June 2025Allow200NoNo
19191397SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO STREAMING OF TRANSPORTATION INFORMATIONApril 2025October 2025Allow510NoNo
19189562METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING A VIDEO SIGNALApril 2025July 2025Allow200NoNo
19188232METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING A VIDEO SIGNALApril 2025June 2025Allow200NoNo
19171277SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIDEOApril 2025May 2025Allow100NoNo
19073992PROCESSING MULTIPLEX IMAGES AND ANALYSIS OF IMMUNE ENRICHED SPATIAL PROTEOMIC DATAMarch 2025March 2026Allow1200NoNo
19068427ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER, AND DECODERMarch 2025March 2026Allow1200NoNo
19052995Panel and Universe Estimate Based Demographic Distribution Target Calculation for Assignment ModelsFebruary 2025March 2026Allow1300NoNo
19051027METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND PROVIDING PROGRAM GUIDES AND CONTENTFebruary 2025February 2026Allow1300NoNo
19041587CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND PROJECTORJanuary 2025February 2026Allow1200NoNo
19099170SEAMLESS AUDIO AND VIDEO TRANSITIONJanuary 2025January 2026Allow1200YesNo
19022824DYNAMIC ADVERTISEMENT STREAM REPLACEMENTJanuary 2025February 2026Allow1300NoNo
19015584CAMERA AND WAKE-UP METHOD THEREOFJanuary 2025July 2025Allow610NoNo
19001190YIELD OPTIMIZATION OF CROSS-SCREEN ADVERTISING PLACEMENTDecember 2024May 2025Allow400NoNo
18991972VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTDecember 2024February 2026Allow1400NoNo
18985696METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND PROVIDING PROGRAM GUIDES AND CONTENTDecember 2024February 2026Allow1410NoNo
18980056PLATFORM, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING, DISTRIBUTING, AND INTERACTING WITH LAYERED MEDIADecember 2024January 2026Allow1300YesNo
18980042PLATFORM, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING, DISTRIBUTING, AND INTERACTING WITH LAYERED MEDIADecember 2024January 2026Allow1300YesNo
18978919CONTENT OUTPUT DEVICE AND CONTENT OUTPUT METHODDecember 2024October 2025Allow1000NoNo
18973924OPTIMAL PLAY ROUTE PREDICTION DURING SPORTS BROADCASTSDecember 2024October 2025Allow1000NoNo
18972394CONTENT ITEM PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMDecember 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18967081ADAPTIVE CONTENT COMPOSITE INTERACTION AND CONTROL INTERFACEDecember 2024March 2026Allow1510YesNo
18964302VIRTUAL SET-TOP BOX USING SMART DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAMENovember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18959930METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING AN IMAGE SIGNALNovember 2024January 2026Allow1400YesNo
18959242METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING STATION REFERENCE FINGERPRINT LOADING USING REFERENCE WATERMARKSNovember 2024February 2026Allow1510NoNo
18957703METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CORRELATE CENSUS MEASUREMENT DATA WITH PANEL DATANovember 2024January 2026Allow1410NoNo
18957514MULTI-MODE CONVERSION OF MULTIPLE VIDEO STREAMSNovember 2024March 2026Allow1510NoNo
18949184ADAPTIVE SUBTITLE COLOR MANAGEMENT ENGINENovember 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18947946SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSERTING EMOTICONS WITHIN A MEDIA ASSETNovember 2024January 2026Allow1400NoNo
18947224METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSMITTING HIGHLIGHTS OF SPORTING EVENTS TO COMMUNICATION DEVICESNovember 2024January 2026Allow1410NoNo
18944708SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROUTING CONTENT TO AN ASSOCIATED OUTPUT DEVICENovember 2024January 2026Allow1400YesNo
18944571SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CONTENT SHARING PLATFORM RECOMMENDATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNINGNovember 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18935285DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION FOR ADDRESSABLE CONTENTNovember 2024March 2026Allow1710NoNo
18932958SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROJECTION MAPPING ONTO MULTIPLE RIGID BODIESOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18931468METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING STREAMING VIDEO SUB-CLIPS FOR FRAME ACCURATE SERVER SIDE CONTENT INSERTIONOctober 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18930391COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2024October 2025Allow1200NoNo
18929094TRANSPORT STREAM AUTOMATIC CHANGE OVEROctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18860379DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTENT SHARING METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT WITH EXTERNAL DISPLAY DEVICEOctober 2024February 2026Allow1610NoNo
18926893SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROFILE SHARINGOctober 2024November 2025Allow1230YesNo
18924154SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY SYNCING FROM TIME-SHIFTED FRAME TO LIVE STREAM OF CONTENTOctober 2024March 2026Allow1610NoNo
18920734Tunable Hybrid Neural Video RepresentationsOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18918970SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING WHETHER TO USE A TAILORED PLAYLISTOctober 2024October 2025Allow1200NoNo
18914417APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT BASED ON USER UTTERANCEOctober 2024January 2026Allow1610NoNo
18913425Controlling Sharing of Content Targeting Data with Content Delivery NetworksOctober 2024January 2026Allow1610NoNo
18911955SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY EXTENDING OR SHORTENING SEGMENTS IN A PLAYLISTOctober 2024January 2026Allow1610NoNo
18911538METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION IN CDN, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMOctober 2024March 2025Allow510NoNo
18909765MIXED REALITY VIRTUAL REVERBERATIONOctober 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18853589INTRA MODE DERIVATION FOR INTER-PREDICTED CODING UNITSOctober 2024February 2026Allow1610YesNo
18900760ENTRY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSeptember 2024July 2025Allow910NoNo
18851741COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A STREAM OR PLAYBACK OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE RECORDINGSeptember 2024February 2026Allow1710NoNo
18897970OPTIMIZATION OF CONTENT REPRESENTATION IN A USER INTERFACESeptember 2024January 2026Allow1610NoNo
18895525SERVER-SIDE STREAMING CONTENT STITCHINGSeptember 2024March 2026Allow1810NoNo
18894962METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING CONTENTSeptember 2024October 2025Allow1300NoNo
18893709DATA FORWARDING IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKSeptember 2024February 2026Allow1700NoNo
18891626METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN VIDEO FRAME AND AUDIO FRAMESeptember 2024March 2026Allow1810NoNo
18274147THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAMESeptember 2024November 2025Allow2810NoNo
18889317SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID DELIVERY OF MULTICAST VIDEO CONTENTSeptember 2024June 2025Allow920NoNo
18889302SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTICAST AD SERVINGSeptember 2024June 2025Allow920NoNo
18889298ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFSeptember 2024March 2026Allow1810NoNo
18888892DISTRIBUTING DIGITAL DATA IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTSeptember 2024February 2026Allow1710YesNo
18887470METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING MEDIA SUBSCRIPTIONSSeptember 2024February 2026Allow1710NoNo
18887756RENDERING A DYNAMIC ENDEMIC BANNER ON STREAMING PLATFORMS USING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMSSeptember 2024October 2025Allow1300NoNo
18887879ADHOC AGGREGATORS FOR DYNAMIC VIDEO PIPELINESSeptember 2024October 2025Allow1300NoNo
18886362VIDEO GENERATION METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2024December 2025Allow1500YesNo
18847616SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PLAYING INFORMATION, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2024December 2025Allow1510NoNo
18847018LIVE-STREAMING STARTING METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM PRODUCTSeptember 2024December 2025Allow1500NoNo
18884991METHOD FOR CLIENT-SIDE, ON-EDGE JUST-IN-TIME TRANSCODING OF VIDEO CONTENTSeptember 2024September 2025Allow1200NoNo
18884321Neural Network with Approximated Activation FunctionSeptember 2024March 2026Allow1810NoNo
18885311ENGAGEMENT TRACKING IN COMPUTER DATA NETWORKSSeptember 2024October 2025Allow1300YesNo
18883052Video Door BellSeptember 2024March 2026Allow1810NoNo
18830113TIME-CONTROLLED ACCESS OF THIRD-PARTY CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH MONITORING OF PREMISESSeptember 2024October 2025Allow1300NoNo
18845253VIDEO STREAM DATA ACQUISITION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMSeptember 2024November 2025Allow1400NoNo
18827679ENTRY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSeptember 2024June 2025Allow910YesNo
18826994SATELLITE RETURN LINK COMMUNICATIONS USING 1+N-ARY SIGNAL CONSTELLATIONSeptember 2024August 2025Allow1100NoNo
18821942DISPLAYING A REPRESENTATION OF A DIGITAL CARD WITH A VISUAL EFFECTAugust 2024March 2026Allow1800NoNo
18843233CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUSAugust 2024November 2025Allow1400NoNo
18818456SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR SELECTING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENTAugust 2024January 2026Allow1710NoNo
18817024AR ASSISTED SAFE CYCLINGAugust 2024January 2026Allow1710NoNo
18812040METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE DATA FILE PLAYBACKAugust 2024December 2025Allow1510NoNo
18811590SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SHORT-MEDIA VIEWING PROFILE AND LONG-MEDIA VIEWING PROFILEAugust 2024October 2025Allow1410NoNo
18840145AIR FLOATING VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUSAugust 2024July 2025Allow1100NoNo
18808064ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING IMAGE STABILIZATION FUNCTION THEREOFAugust 2024July 2025Allow1100NoNo
18807271METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA BASED ON WATERMARKS ACROSS DIFFERENT AUDIO STREAMS AND/OR DIFFERENT WATERMARKING TECHNIQUESAugust 2024October 2025Allow1410NoNo
18807230METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND PROVIDING PROGRAM GUIDES AND CONTENTAugust 2024December 2025Allow1610NoNo
18806372Use of Steganographically-Encoded Time Information as Basis to Establish a Time Offset, to Facilitate Taking Content-Related ActionAugust 2024November 2025Allow1510NoNo
18805898VIDEO PRESENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2024December 2025Allow1630NoNo
18804186ESTIMATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ESTIMATION PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING DEVICEAugust 2024September 2025Allow1400NoNo
18799917METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS WITH AGGREGATED TIMED REACTIONSAugust 2024January 2026Allow1810NoNo
18800005RECORDING ONLINE ACTIVITY BASED ON VIEWING 0R INTERACTING WITH TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTSAugust 2024August 2025Allow1200NoNo
18797215METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING INTERACTIVE LIVE STREAMING CO-HOSTING, DEVICE, AND MEDIUMAugust 2024January 2026Allow1800YesNo
18795121Scientific System and Method for Optimizing Television AdvertisingAugust 2024August 2025Allow1200NoNo
18788594SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LATENCY OPTIMIZATION FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONSJuly 2024August 2025Allow1300NoNo
18785898SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A CONTENT ITEM BANNERJuly 2024December 2025Allow1610NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2426.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
333
Examiner Affirmed
245
(73.6%)
Examiner Reversed
88
(26.4%)
Reversal Percentile
19.5%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 26.4% 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
939
Allowed After Appeal Filing
213
(22.7%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
726
(77.3%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
11.2%
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, 22.7% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.

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 2426 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2426 is part of Group 2420 in Technology Center 2400. This art unit has examined 6,916 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 67.5%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2426's allowance rate of 67.5% places it in the 26% 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 2426 receive an average of 2.85 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 96% percentile). The median prosecution time is 31 months (in the 49% 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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