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Benjamin J. Smith

Examiner (ID: 510, Phone: (571)270-3825 , Office: P/2144 )

Most Active Art Unit
2144
Art Unit(s)
2145, 2172, 2144, 2176
Total Applications
432
Issued Applications
251
Pending Applications
46
Abandoned Applications
143

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/343110
Preparation of signature fields within electronic documents Jun 8, 2021 Issued
Array ( [id] => 18060505 [patent_doc_number] => 20220391591 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-12-08 [patent_title] => DETERMINING TOPIC LABELS FOR COMMUNICATION TRANSCRIPTS BASED ON A TRAINED GENERATIVE SUMMARIZATION MODEL [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/336881 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2021-06-02 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 8766 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 142 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17336881 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
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
Array ( [id] => 17143582 [patent_doc_number] => 20210311595 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2021-10-07 [patent_title] => MULTI-LEVEL TABLE GROUPING [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/202924 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2021-03-16 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 159569 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -18 [patent_words_short_claim] => 2 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17202924 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
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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17/157227
System and method for generating a digital image collage Jan 24, 2021 Issued
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17/156544
Systems and methods for structure and header extraction Jan 22, 2021 Issued
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17/145577
EXTRACTED PACKET PARSER FOR EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS Jan 10, 2021 Abandoned
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17/142991
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT CREATES PROCESSED TEXT DATA FROM TEXT DATA, BY CHANGING ORDER OF SENTENCES IN TEXT DATA, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Jan 5, 2021 Abandoned
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17/140389
METHOD FOR CREATING XML DOCUMENT AND COMPUTING DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE SAME Jan 3, 2021 Abandoned
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17/137128
Methods and devices for resolving agenda and calendaring event discrepancies Dec 28, 2020 Issued
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17/129271
UNIFIED DOCUMENT SURFACE Dec 20, 2020 Pending
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17/089400
APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING DOCUMENT DRAFTING Nov 3, 2020 Abandoned
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17/088847
Multi-lingual tagging for digital images Nov 3, 2020 Issued
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