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Benjamin J. Smith

Examiner (ID: 17225)

Most Active Art Unit
2144
Art Unit(s)
2172, 2176, 2145, 2144
Total Applications
458
Issued Applications
262
Pending Applications
52
Abandoned Applications
146

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/216504
Maintenance of a metafile using spreadsheet software Dec 10, 2018 Issued
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16/203896
Support hierarchical distribution of document objects Nov 28, 2018 Issued
Array ( [id] => 13992589 [patent_doc_number] => 20190065452 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2019-02-28 [patent_title] => SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MINIMALLY REDUCE CHARACTERS IN CHARACTER LIMITING SCENARIOS [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/174725 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2018-10-30 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 10716 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 368 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16174725 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/174725
System and method to minimally reduce characters in character limiting scenarios Oct 29, 2018 Issued
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16/171782
Correction of misspellings in QA system Oct 25, 2018 Issued
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16/169001
Cognitive assistant for co-generating creative content Oct 23, 2018 Issued
Array ( [id] => 14218923 [patent_doc_number] => 20190121846 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2019-04-25 [patent_title] => SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ONLINE NOTARIZATION MEETING RECOVERY [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/168213 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2018-10-23 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 10443 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 117 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16168213 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/168213
System and method for automated online notarization meeting recovery Oct 22, 2018 Issued
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16/166764
Management of event summary types Oct 21, 2018 Issued
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16/165481
Extensible grid layout Oct 18, 2018 Issued
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16/163691
Systems and methods for providing writing assistance Oct 17, 2018 Issued
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16/162673
Simplified formatting for variable data production with vertical resolution of dependencies Oct 16, 2018 Issued
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16/162675
SIMPLIFIED FORMATTING FOR VARIABLE DATA PRODUCTION WITH HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION OF DEPENDENCIES Oct 16, 2018 Abandoned
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16/156589
Structured document creation and processing, dynamic data storage and reporting system Oct 9, 2018 Issued
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16/142125
Automatic generation of document layouts Sep 25, 2018 Issued
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16/117446
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTING EMBEDDED WEBPAGE ELEMENT AND METHOD THEREOF Aug 29, 2018 Abandoned
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16/054581
WRITING AND PRODUCTION METHODS, SOFTWARE, AND SYSTEMS Aug 2, 2018 Abandoned
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16/027096
Systems and methods for contextual vocabularies and customer segmentation Jul 2, 2018 Issued
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16/021256
Web service request verification Jun 27, 2018 Issued
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16/014901
SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF ANNOTATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT AND FOR SHARING OF ANNOTATIONS OF DIGITAL CONTENT Jun 20, 2018 Abandoned
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15/996327
Visualizing Execution History With Shader Debuggers May 31, 2018 Abandoned
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15/975736
Color coding of phrases within a document to indicate change history May 8, 2018 Issued
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