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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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18/471966
Methods and Systems for Input Suggestion Sep 20, 2023 Pending
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18/471210
Meeting Visualizer 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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18/471058
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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18/466597
AUTOMATED INFERENCE AND EVALUATION OF DESIGN RELATIONS FOR ELEMENTS OF A DESIGN Sep 12, 2023 Pending
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18/243356
Systems and methods for providing media guidance in relation to previously-viewed media assets Sep 6, 2023 Issued
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18/461468
Systems and methods for communication across multiple browser pages for an application Sep 4, 2023 Issued
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18/458602
FORMATTING DOCUMENT OBJECTS BY VISUAL SUGGESTIONS Aug 29, 2023 Abandoned
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18/455828
SNAPPING TO SEEK POSITIONS IN MEDIA CONTENT USING SEEK GUIDES Aug 24, 2023 Pending
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18/352434
SYNCHRONIZING DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL TREES RESPECTIVELY MAINTAINED BY A SERVER AND A BROWSER Jul 13, 2023 Pending
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18/216069
SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PUBLICATION AND EXTERNAL INTERFACING FOR A UNIFIED DOCUMENT SURFACE Jun 28, 2023 Pending
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18/216202
Document Pre-Processing for Question-and-Answer Searching Jun 28, 2023 Pending
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18/216045
SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING A UNIFIED DOCUMENT SURFACE WITH EXTERNAL DATA Jun 28, 2023 Pending
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18/341598
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELF-TUNING PERSONALIZATION ENGINES IN NEAR REAL-TIME Jun 25, 2023 Pending
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18/212914
TWO-WAY EXTERNAL DATA ACCESS Jun 21, 2023 Abandoned
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18/331780
DISPLAY FOR CONTROLLING AND MONITORING A ROBOTIC GARDEN TOOL Jun 7, 2023 Pending
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18/316123
Fading PIREP icons based on validity of report May 10, 2023 Issued
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18/310582
Collaborative Workspace for an Artificial Reality Environment May 1, 2023 Pending
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18/306533
METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SAME Apr 24, 2023 Pending
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