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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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17/720721
WORKBOOK TEMPLATE SHARING Apr 13, 2022 Abandoned
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17/716430
Systems and methods for generating locale-specific phonetic spelling variations Apr 7, 2022 Issued
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17/711814
Systems and methods of previewing a document Mar 31, 2022 Issued
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18/035161
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MERGING PDF FILES IN A LARGE BATCH Mar 29, 2022 Abandoned
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17/704105
Processing method for presenting indicator hierarchy and classification of data in spreadsheet Mar 24, 2022 Issued
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17/687106
Automatic detection and removal of typesetting errors in electronic documents Mar 3, 2022 Issued
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18/279378
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DOCUMENT TAG, AND TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM Feb 28, 2022 Pending
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17/682282
Techniques and models for multilingual text rewriting Feb 27, 2022 Issued
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17/672336
Document creation system Feb 14, 2022 Issued
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17/669274
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORMING PIVOT TABLES FROM PIVOT FRAMES Feb 9, 2022 Abandoned
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17/581181
Identification of document access by a message scanning system Jan 20, 2022 Issued
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17/549565
System, method, and computer program for syncing content across workspace pages Dec 12, 2021 Issued
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17/548518
Visual presentation of quantum-classical interface in a user experience Dec 10, 2021 Issued
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17/544842
Systems and methods for conversion of web content into reusable templates and components Dec 6, 2021 Issued
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17/528950
Method and system for creating, retrieving, and editing web service attachments in spreadsheets Nov 16, 2021 Issued
17/526023 PROCESSING METHOD FOR PRESENTING INDICATOR HIERARCHY AND CLASSIFICATION OF DATA IN SPREADSHEET Nov 14, 2021 Abandoned
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17/520988
METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR UPDATING A WEBPAGE RENDERED WITH CACHED CONTENT Nov 7, 2021 Abandoned
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18/704404
PSEUDO HAPTIC SENSE PRESENTATION APPARATUS, PSEUDO HAPTIC SENSE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Nov 3, 2021 Pending
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17/453449
Disability-oriented font generator Nov 2, 2021 Issued
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17/452530
Facilitating dynamic document layout by determining reading order using document content stream cues Oct 26, 2021 Issued
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