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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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18/247743
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Aug 12, 2021 Pending
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17/400258
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING WRITING ASSISTANCE Aug 11, 2021 Abandoned
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17/305978
Chat interface with dynamically populated menu element Jul 18, 2021 Issued
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17/374901
Method and system for improved ordering of output from spreadsheet analytical functions Jul 12, 2021 Issued
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17/364374
Information processing apparatus for representing a web page using external fonts, and information processing method, and storage medium thereof Jun 29, 2021 Issued
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17/358829
DOCUMENT PROCESSING AND RESPONSE GENERATION SYSTEM Jun 24, 2021 Abandoned
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17/358114
Document pre-processing for question-and-answer searching Jun 24, 2021 Issued
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18/564349
ABSTRACTIVE CONTENT TRANSFORMATION Jun 23, 2021 Pending
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17/353736
ROBOTIC MEDICAL SYSTEMS INCLUDING USER INTERFACES WITH GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF USER INPUT DEVICES Jun 20, 2021 Pending
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17/343110
Preparation of signature fields within electronic documents Jun 8, 2021 Issued
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17/336881
Determining topic labels for communication transcripts based on a trained generative summarization model Jun 1, 2021 Issued
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18/000160
GRAPHICAL EDITING OF ANIMAL FEED PRODUCT COMPOSITION May 25, 2021 Abandoned
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17/327072
System and method for generating test document for context sensitive spelling error correction May 20, 2021 Issued
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17/324687
Enabling file attachments in calendar events May 18, 2021 Issued
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17/308850
User input mechanism for reordering graphical elements May 4, 2021 Issued
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17/640644
METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR LOADING PAGE DATA Apr 19, 2021 Abandoned
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17/216500
E-commerce document framework with cross-source and cross-document validation Mar 28, 2021 Issued
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17/207459
Bookmark conservation service for data objects or visualizations Mar 18, 2021 Issued
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17/202924
Customizations based on client resource values Mar 15, 2021 Issued
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17/248934
Electronic apparatus for summarizing a sentence based on a user preference and control method thereof Feb 11, 2021 Issued
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