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Benjamin J. Smith

Examiner (ID: 18206, Phone: (571)270-3825 , Office: P/2144 )

Most Active Art Unit
2144
Art Unit(s)
2172, 2144, 2176, 2145
Total Applications
446
Issued Applications
251
Pending Applications
62
Abandoned Applications
145

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/749423
CHAT INTERFACE WITH DYNAMICALLY POPULATED MENU ELEMENT Jun 19, 2024 Pending
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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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18/680656
Virtual Bookplates For Electronic Media And Related Systems And Methods May 30, 2024 Pending
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18/679329
USER INTERFACES FOR COLLABORATIVE CONTENT PLAYLISTS May 29, 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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18/644138
VIRTUAL INPUT DEVICE Apr 23, 2024 Pending
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18/611379
MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIO IMAGE SYSTEM Mar 19, 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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18/515759
ENHANCING PARAGRAPH JUSTIFICATION ACROSS MULTIPLE PARAGRAPHS Nov 20, 2023 Pending
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18/513019
INTEGRATED TWO-FRAME EBOOK/MEDIA PLATFORM Nov 16, 2023 Pending
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18/511111
MERGING MISIDENTIFIED TEXT STRUCTURES IN A DOCUMENT Nov 15, 2023 Pending
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18/389537
MEDIA STREAM STORYBOARD GENERATION Nov 13, 2023 Pending
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18/508366
Prevention of Web Scraping and Copy and Paste of Content by Font Obfuscation Nov 13, 2023 Pending
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18/386339
GENERIC WEB PAGE EXTRACTION AND DATA COMPARISON FRAMEWORK Nov 1, 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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