USPTO Art Unit 2479 Prosecution Statistics

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18980223Data Signal Transmission in a Wireless Communication System with Reduced End-To-End LatencyDecember 2024March 2025Allow300YesNo
18748005LOW LATENCY SOLUTIONS FOR RESTRICTED TARGET WAKE TIME (R-TWT) DURING MULTI-LINK OPERATION (MLO)June 2024June 2025Allow1110YesNo
18742552TIME-DELIMITED ACTION SUGGESTION SYSTEMJune 2024February 2025Allow800YesNo
18662036PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PDCCH) MONITORING WITH OVERLAPPING RESOURCESMay 2024December 2024Allow700YesNo
18514607METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING FRAME IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFORNovember 2023June 2024Allow700NoNo
18486942SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL INTERFACES AND ADVANCED SMART ROUTING IN A GLOBAL VIRTUAL NETWORKOctober 2023March 2025Allow1720NoNo
18480775SYSTEM TO MONITOR AND PROCESS RISK RELATIONSHIP SENSOR DATAOctober 2023August 2024Allow1010YesNo
18480277VIRTUALIZED RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (VRAN) DECODING AS A SERVICEOctober 2023June 2025Allow2000NoNo
18470686METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MANAGING DUTY CYCLE IN WIRELESS LOCAL ACCESS NETWORKS (WLANS)September 2023May 2025Allow1910YesNo
18237148METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATION SESSION MANAGEMENTAugust 2023July 2024Allow1110YesNo
18334715CONFIGURATION RESET METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL DEVICEJune 2023March 2025Allow2140YesNo
18312401SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING INTERCONNECTED CONSTELLATION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMMay 2023June 2025Allow2610NoNo
18312517Data Signal Transmission in a Wireless Communication System with Reduced End-To-End LatencyMay 2023March 2025Allow2230NoNo
18138460RELEASING WIRELESS DEVICE CONTEXTApril 2023February 2025Allow2220NoNo
18179950Method and Apparatus for Wider Bandwidth GNodeB Operation with User Equipment Bandwidth RestrictionsMarch 2023April 2025Allow2510NoNo
17983471Discontinuous Reception Operation of Multicast and Broadcast ServicesNovember 2022March 2025Allow2830NoNo
17950129DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSeptember 2022May 2025Allow3200NoNo
17932164METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING TRUNCATED MAC CONTROL ELEMENT REPORT BY USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSeptember 2022March 2025Allow3010NoNo
17904022METHODS OF DELIVERY MODE SWITCH FOR MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE IN A 5G NETWORKAugust 2022June 2025Allow3410NoNo
17788858Association with a Network Data Analytics FunctionJune 2022April 2025Allow3320YesNo
17846712MULTIPATH GEOGRAPHIC ROUTING PROTOCOLJune 2022June 2025Allow3620NoNo
17837387Optimization Of BCC Interleaver And LDPC Tone Mapper For Distributed-Tone Resource Units And Distributed-Tone Multi-Resource UnitsJune 2022April 2025Allow3410NoNo
17830466SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREMIUM SESSION RETAINABILITY IN CORE NETWORKSJune 2022May 2025Allow3510NoNo
17764807METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN AN NR SYSTEMMarch 2022July 2024Allow2700NoNo
17701442METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING CSI REPORTING GRANULARITYMarch 2022July 2025Allow3920YesYes
17635811METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DOWNLINK INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING INTERNET OF THINGS, AND DEVICE THEREFORFebruary 2022February 2025Allow3620NoNo
17646391SYSTEM OF ACTIONS FOR IOT DEVICESDecember 2021September 2024Allow3320YesNo
17560929DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICEDecember 2021July 2024Allow3110NoNo
17561528APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DURING A SHORT-INTER-FRAME-SPACE (SIFS)December 2021March 2025Allow3800NoNo
17521228METHOD FOR CONFIGURING RESOURCE POOL, TERMINAL AND NETWORK DEVICENovember 2021February 2025Abandon4020NoNo
17593492Network Data Scheduling and Transmission for Reduced Capability UEsSeptember 2021February 2025Allow4120NoNo
17477165DATA COLLECTION REPORTING FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK CELLSSeptember 2021November 2023Allow2610YesNo
17364169GENERATING SUBGROUPS FROM A VEHICULAR MICRO CLOUDJune 2021July 2024Allow3640YesNo
17295402DATA FRAME TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMMay 2021August 2024Allow3930NoNo
17199198RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR SIDELINK-ASSISTED UPLINK TRANSMISSIONMarch 2021April 2025Allow4980YesNo
17169121MULTIPLE ACCESS TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATIONSFebruary 2021June 2025Allow5350YesNo
17156231METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONJanuary 2021March 2025Allow4940NoNo
16343319BROADCAST SIGNAL TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION DEVICE AND METHODApril 2019April 2020Allow1200NoNo
16261731CODING AND DECODING OF A POLAR CODE CONCATENATED WITH INTERLEAVING WITH AN OUTER SYSTEMATIC CODEJanuary 2019July 2019Allow610NoNo
16026252SUBSCRIPTION FALL-BACK IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION NETWORKJuly 2018October 2018Allow300YesNo
15774653ECHO CANCELLER DEVICE AND VOICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICEMay 2018July 2019Allow1500NoNo
15916909METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SPACECRAFT OPERATING IN AN ORBITAL ENVIRONMENT AND TERRESTRIAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICES THAT USE TERRESTRIAL BASE STATION COMMUNICATIONSMarch 2018July 2018Allow400YesNo
15915986RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHODMarch 2018April 2019Allow1310NoNo
15913643METHODS FOR DETERMINING AND DISPLAYING A LOCAL PAGE FOR A MOBILE DEVICE AND SYSTEMS THEREOFMarch 2018May 2018Allow200YesNo
15908728DIRECTED STATION ROAMING IN CLOUD MANAGED WI-FI NETWORKFebruary 2018September 2018Allow700NoNo
15890620MOBILE DEVICE LOCK-OUT SYSTEMFebruary 2018July 2018Allow500YesNo
15887137DOUBLE SIDED ROUND TRIP TIME CALIBRATIONFebruary 2018May 2018Allow300NoNo
15886403MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, AND BASE STATIONFebruary 2018July 2018Allow510NoNo
15880862SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING AND LOCATING THE SOURCE OF A REMOTE BEACON SIGNALJanuary 2018April 2018Allow300NoNo
15746742TERMINAL, BASE STATION, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEPTION METHODJanuary 2018January 2020Allow2420NoNo
15744425CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION ACQUISITION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMJanuary 2018September 2018Allow800YesNo
15869869WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, LOW TRANSMISSION POWER CELL BASE STATION, MACROCELL BASE STATION, WIRELESS TERMINAL, AND LOAD DISTRIBUTION METHODJanuary 2018November 2018Allow1000YesNo
15865942METHOD OF ESTABLISHING A CONNECTION BETWEEN A MOBILE COMMUNICATING OBJECT AND A REMOTE SERVERJanuary 2018July 2018Allow600NoNo
15825013WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND REPORTING METHODNovember 2017September 2018Allow1000YesNo
15810833DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING MIMO SCHEME SYSTEMNovember 2017October 2018Allow1200YesNo
15808730COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND USER TERMINAL FOR SELECTING SYNCHRONIZATION REFERENCE OF DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D)November 2017June 2018Allow710NoNo
15794795Energy-Efficient Push/Poll Notification ServiceOctober 2017September 2018Allow1100YesNo
15794444WIFI ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOFOctober 2017October 2018Allow1100YesNo
15783463MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND USER TERMINALOctober 2017November 2017Allow100YesNo
15722078USER TERMINAL FOR NETWORK SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEMOctober 2017May 2018Allow710NoNo
15561662APPARATUS AND METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTI-USER SUPERPOSITION TRANSMISSIONSeptember 2017October 2018Allow1210YesNo
15712937CONTENT REQUEST BY LOCATIONSeptember 2017June 2018Allow800YesNo
15712926CONTENT REQUEST BY LOCATIONSeptember 2017June 2018Allow800YesNo
15711283Mass Migration of Desktop Deployments To Virtual Desktop InfrastructuresSeptember 2017September 2018Allow1200NoNo
15700529USER TERMINAL, CELLULAR BASE STATION, AND PROCESSORSeptember 2017August 2018Allow1100NoNo
15699797METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING FEMTOCELL SERVICE CAPABILITIES FOR SERVICESSeptember 2017October 2018Allow1310YesNo
15698484ELECTRONIC LOCATION IDENTIFICATION & TRACKING SYSTEM WITH BEACON CLUSTERINGSeptember 2017March 2018Allow600YesNo
15555831MCI TRANSMISSION FOR MAC HANDSHAKESeptember 2017August 2018Allow1110YesNo
15691877Pilot Scheme for a MIMO Communication SystemAugust 2017June 2018Allow900YesNo
15690007METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE ACTIVATION OF SERVICESAugust 2017June 2018Allow900NoNo
15553381METHODS, QUEUEING SYSTEM, NETWORK ELEMENT AND NETWORK SYSTEM FOR QUEUEING AND PROCESSING OF PACKETSAugust 2017September 2018Allow1300YesNo
15673949MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, AND BASE STATIONAugust 2017October 2017Allow300NoNo
15548190RESOLUTION OF BEAM AND NODE IDENTITIES FOR DUAL CONNECTIVITYAugust 2017November 2018Allow1610NoNo
15645870MOBILE DEVICE WITH APPLICATIONS THAT USE A COMMON PLACE CARD TO DISPLAY DATA RELATING TO A LOCATIONJuly 2017April 2018Allow900YesNo
15644661COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, USER TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUSJuly 2017June 2018Allow1100YesNo
15644599COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, USER TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUSJuly 2017September 2018Allow1400NoNo
15641640METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPECIFIED ATTACH PROCEDURE AND MOBILITY AND PAGING SUPPORT IN DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKJuly 2017June 2018Allow1120YesNo
15641619SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR CELLULAR BASED RESOURCE SHARING SERVICEJuly 2017July 2018Allow1210YesNo
15640016METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONGESTION MANAGEMENT FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKJune 2017December 2017Allow610NoNo
15634324PRIORITIZATION OF MOBILE NETWORKS FOR PROXIMITY SERVICESJune 2017March 2018Allow810YesNo
15634044FIRST RESPONDER TRACKING BREADCRUMBSJune 2017February 2018Allow810YesNo
15538099METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONNECTIONLESS BEARER SERVICEJune 2017January 2019Abandon1910NoNo
15624996NARROWBAND INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEM AND PREAMBLE TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOFJune 2017October 2018Allow1600YesNo
15613611CLOSE PROXIMITY NOTIFICATION SYSTEMJune 2017January 2018Allow800YesNo
15612674NETWORK SELECTION CONTROL METHOD AND USER TERMINALJune 2017August 2018Allow1510YesNo
15607037USER TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHODMay 2017June 2018Allow1310NoNo
15606474Avoiding Denial of ServiceMay 2017May 2018Allow1210YesNo
15531271MODELING A BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL NETWORKMay 2017September 2018Allow1600YesNo
15601396METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL MEASUREMENT INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMMay 2017March 2018Allow1010YesNo
15599188SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CHANGING NETWORK PORT SPEED OF FIBER CHANNEL INITIATORMay 2017September 2018Allow1600YesNo
15526758METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING INTER-LINK INTERFERENCEMay 2017January 2019Abandon2100NoNo
15594014USER DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING DATA AND METHODMay 2017June 2018Allow1310YesNo
15592841Data Forwarding in Hybrid Mesh NetworksMay 2017August 2017Allow310NoNo
15498996MACRO BASE STATION TO MANAGE A FREQUENCY LISTApril 2017August 2018Allow1600YesNo
15489111DYNAMIC MOBILE APPLICATION QUALITY-OF-SERVICE MONITORApril 2017February 2018Allow1010YesNo
15519640METHOD FOR SETTING UP AND OPERATING A WIRELESS VEHICLE NETWORKApril 2017July 2018Allow1500YesNo
15483728DATA FLOW MOBILITYApril 2017March 2018Allow1110NoNo
15478367CARRIER NETWORK ACCESS USING MULTIPLE NETWORK INTERFACESApril 2017October 2018Allow1910YesNo
15478059COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATIONApril 2017November 2017Allow710NoNo
15475994METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CELL STATE AT SUBFRAME LEVEL IN WIRELESS NETWORKMarch 2017January 2018Allow1010NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2479.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
75
Examiner Affirmed
49
(65.3%)
Examiner Reversed
26
(34.7%)
Reversal Percentile
60.8%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 34.7% 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
208
Allowed After Appeal Filing
67
(32.2%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
141
(67.8%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
47.7%
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, 32.2% 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 2479 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2479 is part of Group 2470 in Technology Center 2400. This art unit has examined 2,413 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 75.9%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 33 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2479's allowance rate of 75.9% places it in the 43% 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 2479 receive an average of 2.38 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 87% percentile). The median prosecution time is 33 months (in the 30% 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

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