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Benjamin J. Smith

Examiner (ID: 13753, Phone: (571)270-3825 , Office: P/2144 )

Most Active Art Unit
2144
Art Unit(s)
2172, 2144, 2176, 2145
Total Applications
452
Issued Applications
256
Pending Applications
53
Abandoned Applications
147

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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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
Array ( [id] => 18958212 [patent_doc_number] => 20240046539 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-02-08 [patent_title] => SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL IMAGE COLLAGE [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/490285 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-10-19 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 6325 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 296 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18490285 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
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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18/471966
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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18/216045
SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING A UNIFIED DOCUMENT SURFACE WITH EXTERNAL DATA Jun 28, 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 Abandoned
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18/216202
Document Pre-Processing for Question-and-Answer Searching 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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