USPTO Art Unit 2496 Prosecution Statistics

Art Unit Information

Art Unit: 2496
Group: 2490
Tech Center: 2400
Total Cases: 3,075
Last Active: December 2024

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18983922METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING NETWORK ASSISTANCE SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT IN UE-TO-UE RELAY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMDecember 2024March 2025Allow300NoNo
18764792METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR VERIFYING A LOCATION OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICEJuly 2024February 2025Allow700YesNo
18752532PROTECTING NON-HTTP AND TCP/UDP APPLICATIONS IN A ZTNA/WEBVPN ENVIRONMENTJune 2024February 2025Allow800YesNo
18748821ACCESS CONTROL LISTS RULES REDUCTIONJune 2024June 2025Allow1210YesNo
18747969Identification of Command Injection AttacksJune 2024June 2025Allow1210YesNo
18673057SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING VULNERABILITY IN SOFTWARE INSTALLED ON IOT DEVICEMay 2024November 2024Allow610NoNo
18661534ENHANCED SECURITY FEATURES FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO SHARED CONTENT AND PRIVATE CONTENT OF A SHARED DOCUMENTMay 2024March 2025Allow1000YesNo
18655735SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AN EXECUTION WEBPAGE WITH DYNAMICALLY UPDATED CUSTOMIZED OPTIONSMay 2024January 2025Allow810YesNo
18630322SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACTIONS DEPENDING ON MULTIPLE VALIDATIONSApril 2024March 2025Allow1120YesNo
18612618TECHNIQUES FOR AGGREGATING MITIGATION ACTIONSMarch 2024May 2024Allow200YesNo
18590041PROXY AUTONOMOUS PROTOCOL FOR BLOCKCHAIN ACCESS CONTROLFebruary 2024June 2025Allow1520NoNo
18442457CRYPTOGRAPHIC DATA PROCESSING USING A DMA ENGINEFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1410NoNo
18443232COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED DECISION MAKING SYSTEM AND METHODFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210NoNo
18418082MOBILE USER IDENTITY AND/OR SIM-BASED IOT IDENTITY AND APPLICATION IDENTITY BASED SECURITY ENFORCEMENT IN SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKSJanuary 2024March 2025Allow1410YesNo
18579848SECURITY AUTHENTICATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR IOV COMMUNICATION BASED ON NATIONAL CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMJanuary 2024June 2025Allow1700NoNo
18412344METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOISE INJECTION FOR PUF GENERATOR CHARACTERIZATIONJanuary 2024September 2024Allow800YesNo
18405804MOBILE DEVICE INTERFACEJanuary 2024June 2025Allow1810NoNo
18404058CHECKPOINT IDENTITY VERIFICATION USING MOBILE IDENTIFICATION CREDENTIALJanuary 2024October 2024Allow900YesNo
18575811BLOCKCHAIN CONSENSUS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2023October 2024Allow1010YesNo
18400919METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PROVISIONING DATA FOR AN INSTALLED ELECTRONIC DEVICEDecember 2023July 2025Allow1800NoNo
18543902AUTOMATIC SIGN-IN UPON ACCOUNT SIGNUPDecember 2023December 2024Allow1210NoNo
18540108METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FRAUD CONTAINMENTDecember 2023July 2024Allow700YesNo
18540242METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROTECTING SENSITIVE USER PLANE TRAFFICDecember 2023October 2024Allow1010NoNo
18530553METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE AGGREGATION PROTOCOL FOR PROTECTING PRIVACY OF INDIVIDUAL DATA SETSDecember 2023June 2025Allow1800NoNo
18527167WIRELESS CHANNEL POWER PROFILE FALSE BASE STATION DETECTIONDecember 2023August 2024Allow900NoNo
18525698SECURE EXCHANGE OF CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED RECORDSNovember 2023July 2024Allow800YesNo
18520806User Device Agent Event Detection and RecoveryNovember 2023June 2024Allow600YesNo
18518003SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING FINGERPRINTS OF ENCRYPTION DEVICESNovember 2023August 2024Allow900NoNo
18517130A SYSTEM THAT MANAGES ACCESS POINT MULTI-LINK DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE STATIONSNovember 2023May 2025Allow1810YesNo
18510331DETERMINING ANOMALOUS TOOL INVOCATIONS BY APPLICATIONS USING LARGE GENERATIVE MODELSNovember 2023June 2025Allow1900NoNo
18507282SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL PERSONAL WI-FI NETWORKNovember 2023August 2024Allow900YesNo
18389026Methods and Systems for Efficient Encrypted SNI Filtering for Cybersecurity ApplicationsNovember 2023November 2024Allow1210NoNo
18389175METHOD FOR SECURELY COMMUNICATING EMAIL CONTENT BETWEEN A SENDER AND A RECIPIENTNovember 2023May 2025Allow1820NoNo
18504995Detecting and Responding to Malicious Acts Directed Towards Machine Learning ModelsNovember 2023January 2024Allow300YesNo
18494287SECURITY LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OF DEVICES IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKOctober 2023August 2024Allow1010NoNo
18492314System for Improving Data SecurityOctober 2023February 2025Allow1620NoNo
18376630SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED REMEDIATIONS OF CYBERSECURITY ALERTS AND CYBERSECURITY EVENTS IN A CYBERSECURITY EVENT DETECTION AND RESPONSE PLATFORMOctober 2023November 2023Allow200YesNo
18479475WIRELESS DATA SERVICE USING CONTENT-ADDRESSINGOctober 2023May 2025Allow1900NoNo
18470518AUTHENTICATING DEVICES VIA TOKENS AND VERIFICATION COMPUTING DEVICESSeptember 2023July 2024Allow1000YesNo
18368997OPPORTUNISTIC RELAY AMONG MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICESSeptember 2023April 2025Allow1900NoNo
18467326AGGREGATION PLATFORM PORTALSeptember 2023October 2024Abandon1310NoNo
18367171SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED DETECTION OF AN AUTOMATED FRAUD ATTACK OR AN AUTOMATED ABUSE ATTACKSeptember 2023June 2024Allow900YesNo
18461399Identifying Cryptography Usage RisksSeptember 2023October 2023Allow200YesNo
18242137ENABLING USING EXTERNAL TENANT MASTER KEYSSeptember 2023July 2024Allow1000NoNo
18239020MICROSERVICES ANOMALY DETECTIONAugust 2023April 2024Allow800YesNo
18454071INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTAugust 2023August 2024Allow1210NoNo
18450735SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESSURE CONTROL EQUIPMENTAugust 2023April 2025Allow2020YesNo
18234238SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION-BASED ACCESS CONTROLAugust 2023November 2024Allow1510NoNo
18229997METHOD FOR SECURELY COMMUNICATING EMAIL CONTENT BETWEEN A SENDER AND A RECIPIENTAugust 2023February 2025Abandon1920YesNo
18363533HYBRID COGNITIVE SYSTEM FOR AI/ML DATA PRIVACYAugust 2023April 2024Allow800YesNo
18228634Non-Intrusive Method of Detecting Security Flaws of a Computer ProgramJuly 2023July 2024Allow1110NoNo
18226074ONLINE COMMAND INJECTION ATTACKS IDENTIFICATIONJuly 2023March 2024Allow810NoNo
18356735MANAGING A NETWORK OVERLAID ON ANOTHER NETWORKJuly 2023September 2024Abandon1410NoNo
18222887SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING REMOTE SECURITY ASSESSMENT OF FIREWALLED COMPUTERJuly 2023June 2024Allow1110NoNo
18352189OPERATING CHANNEL VALIDATION UNDER PROTECTED BEACONJuly 2023March 2024Allow800YesNo
18221627SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION BY A COMMERCE PLATFORM USING A CLOUD SERVICES PROVIDERJuly 2023September 2024Allow1410YesNo
18271221DECENTRALIZED MULTI-AUTHORITY ATTRIBUTE-BASED ENCRYPTION FROM BILINEAR DIFFIE-HELLMAN ASSUMPTIONSJuly 2023May 2025Allow2310NoNo
18215250TERMINAL DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR TERMINAL DEVICEJune 2023November 2024Allow1710YesNo
18341450Wireless Earpieces for Hub CommunicationsJune 2023April 2024Allow1010NoNo
18339385SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING SECURE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN APPLICATIONSJune 2023May 2024Allow1000YesNo
18329486MODULAR DATA CENTERJune 2023April 2024Allow1100YesNo
18204885CERTIFICATION SYSTEMJune 2023March 2025Allow2220YesNo
18204351Distributed Data Analysis for Streaming Data SourcesMay 2023June 2024Allow1310NoNo
18199822SECURING BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION BASED ON UNDETERMINED DATAMay 2023August 2024Allow1520NoNo
18199222SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING SECURE COMMUNICATIONS FOR INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICESMay 2023April 2024Allow1100YesNo
18318308ENTITY FOCUSED NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATIONMay 2023February 2025Allow2100NoNo
18144357Attack monitoring service that selectively analyzes connection graphs for suspected attack pathsMay 2023December 2023Allow700YesNo
18142858SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIDA BASED EXPLOIT SELECTIONMay 2023June 2024Allow1320NoNo
18310485SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTHENTICATION USING VEHICLE DATAMay 2023September 2024Allow1720YesNo
18309722CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESS FOR PORTABLE DEVICES, AND USER PRESENCE AND/OR ACCESS AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING SAMEApril 2023July 2024Abandon1510NoNo
18307409DYNAMIC SECURITY SERVICE EXTENSION BASED ON SOFTWARE BILL OF MATERIALSApril 2023March 2025Allow2300NoNo
18139498SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRE-SHARED KEY (PSK) BASED CONTENT SIGNING FOR TAMPER RESISTANCEApril 2023February 2025Allow2100YesNo
18138883MICROSERVICES ANOMALY DETECTIONApril 2023July 2023Allow300YesNo
18306933Systems Using Secure Permissions for Secure Enterprise-Wide Fine-Grained Role-Based Access Control of Organizational AssetsApril 2023February 2024Allow1000YesNo
18305148MACHINE LEARNING FOR DATA ANONYMIZATIONApril 2023June 2025Allow2610YesNo
18303901ACCESS TO DATA BROADCAST IN ENCRYPTED FORM BASED ON BLOCKCHAINApril 2023February 2024Allow1010NoNo
18300884AUTO ACCOUNT PROVISIONING IN A CLOUD-BASED WIRELESS NETWORKApril 2023March 2025Allow2300NoNo
18134204METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING AUTHENTICATION OF REMOTE TERMINALSApril 2023February 2025Allow2210NoNo
18194790SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONSApril 2023March 2024Allow1100NoNo
18194029SYMMETRIC KEY ATTESTATION OF REMOVABLE CIRCUITSMarch 2023July 2025Allow2710NoNo
18190753System for Improving Data SecurityMarch 2023July 2023Allow400NoNo
18188646PROVIDING AND INSTALLING DIGITAL CERTIFICATESMarch 2023April 2025Allow2530YesNo
18188647MODE SWITCH FOR LINK-BASED AND APPLICATION-BASED SECURITY OPERATIONSMarch 2023January 2025Allow2200NoNo
18122937SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ADAPTIVELY SECURING NETWORK COMMUNICATION CHANNELSMarch 2023February 2024Allow1100YesNo
18122919ATTRIBUTE-BASED POLICIES FOR INTEGRITY MONITORING AND NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTIONMarch 2023November 2023Allow800YesNo
18123137SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED REMEDIATIONS OF CYBERSECURITY ALERTS AND CYBERSECURITY EVENTS IN A CYBERSECURITY EVENT DETECTION AND RESPONSE PLATFORMMarch 2023July 2023Allow400YesNo
18119739DATA BLOCK MODIFICATIONMarch 2023August 2024Allow1810YesNo
18118107ENHANCED SECURITY IN SENSITIVE DATA TRANSFER OVER A NETWORKMarch 2023August 2024Allow1820YesNo
18116161COMPACT CLOUD ACCESS NETWORK BASED ON ROLE-TO-RESOURCE DETECTION WITH RESOURCE STATE CHANGE TRACKING AND PROVENANCEMarch 2023November 2023Allow800YesNo
18175775ID-BASED CONTROL UNIT-KEY FOB PAIRINGFebruary 2023September 2023Allow700NoNo
18114955SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID BLOCKCHAIN CONTROLFebruary 2023October 2023Allow810NoNo
18111351NETWORK COMPROMISE ACTIVITY MONITORING SYSTEMFebruary 2023September 2023Allow710YesNo
18170730System And Method For Authenticating Digitally Signed DocumentsFebruary 2023September 2024Abandon1910NoNo
18170421ADVANCED FILE MODIFICATION HEURISTICSFebruary 2023August 2024Allow1820YesNo
18168749USING A BLOCKCHAIN TO DETERMINE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF MESSAGES BETWEEN VEHICLES OVER A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKFebruary 2023December 2023Allow1010NoNo
18167040COMBINED REAL-TIME AND BATCH THREAT DETECTIONFebruary 2023August 2023Allow700NoNo
18106730ESTABLISHING A PERSONAL-PUBLIC SERVICE SET IDENTIFIER CONNECTION BETWEEN A PERSONAL DEVICE AND THE INTERNETFebruary 2023June 2025Allow2810YesNo
18165724PRIVACY PROTECTING TRANSACTION ENGINE FOR A CLOUD PROVIDER NETWORKFebruary 2023March 2024Allow1310NoNo
18104660SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED ACCESS TO POLICY DATA ON BLOCKCHAINFebruary 2023November 2023Allow1000YesNo
18160834MALICIOUS TRAFFIC DETECTION WITH ANOMALY DETECTION MODELINGJanuary 2023January 2024Allow1200YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2496.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
51
Examiner Affirmed
39
(76.5%)
Examiner Reversed
12
(23.5%)
Reversal Percentile
10.7%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 23.5% 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
180
Allowed After Appeal Filing
64
(35.6%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
116
(64.4%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
63.6%
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, 35.6% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Art Unit 2496 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2496 is part of Group 2490 in Technology Center 2400. This art unit has examined 3,075 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 80.3%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 29 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2496's allowance rate of 80.3% places it in the 58% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has an above-average allowance rate compared to other art units.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Art Unit 2496 receive an average of 1.96 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 63% percentile). The median prosecution time is 29 months (in the 50% 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 more office actions than average, plan for relatively streamlined prosecution.
  • The median prosecution time is shorter 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.