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Benjamin J. Smith

Examiner (ID: 510, Phone: (571)270-3825 , Office: P/2144 )

Most Active Art Unit
2144
Art Unit(s)
2145, 2172, 2144, 2176
Total Applications
432
Issued Applications
251
Pending Applications
46
Abandoned Applications
143

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/734406
Method and System for Dynamic Naming of Component Expressions Within a Formula in a Cell in a Spreadsheet Application Jun 4, 2024 Pending
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18/649955
Method and system for improved ordering of output from spreadsheet analytical functions Apr 28, 2024 Issued
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18/444508
ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY Feb 15, 2024 Pending
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18/444508
ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY Feb 15, 2024 Pending
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18/435357
Document Processing and Response Generation System Feb 6, 2024 Pending
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18/545147
Systems and Methods for Generating Locale-Specific Phonetic Spelling Variations Dec 18, 2023 Abandoned
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18/534305
SORTING DOCUMENTS ACCORDING TO COMPREHENSIBILITY SCORES DETERMINED FOR THE DOCUMENTS Dec 7, 2023 Pending
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18/511111
MERGING MISIDENTIFIED TEXT STRUCTURES IN A DOCUMENT Nov 15, 2023 Pending
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18/497623
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STRUCTURE AND HEADER EXTRACTION Oct 29, 2023 Pending
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18/490285
System and method for generating a digital image collage Oct 18, 2023 Issued
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18/373309
METHOD, DEVICE, COMPUTER EQUIPMENT AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EDITING PDF FILES Sep 26, 2023 Pending
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18/470752
METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DOCUMENT PREPARATION Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/471058
NON-ANONYMOUS FUNCTIONS AS ARGUMENTS IN SPREADSHEET ENVIRONMENTS Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/470752
METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DOCUMENT PREPARATION Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/471210
Meeting Visualizer Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/471058
NON-ANONYMOUS FUNCTIONS AS ARGUMENTS IN SPREADSHEET ENVIRONMENTS Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/470767
METHOD, USER TERMINAL, AND SERVER FOR RECOMMENDING EMOTICONS BASED ON USER'S EMOTICON PREFERENCE INFORMATION Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/470752
METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DOCUMENT PREPARATION Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/470767
METHOD, USER TERMINAL, AND SERVER FOR RECOMMENDING EMOTICONS BASED ON USER'S EMOTICON PREFERENCE INFORMATION Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/466597
AUTOMATED INFERENCE AND EVALUATION OF DESIGN RELATIONS FOR ELEMENTS OF A DESIGN Sep 12, 2023 Pending
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