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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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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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17/086547
ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY Nov 1, 2020 Abandoned
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17/085378
Systems and methods for transforming user interfaces based on database interactions Oct 29, 2020 Issued
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17/077940
Controlling the display of diacritic marks Oct 21, 2020 Issued
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17/076357
Sorting documents according to comprehensibility scores determined for the documents Oct 20, 2020 Issued
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17/072309
System and method for automated data importation, processing, and form submittal Oct 15, 2020 Issued
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17/069797
Method and apparatus for integrated e-discovery Oct 12, 2020 Issued
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17/594217
Document mark-up and navigation using natural language processing Sep 28, 2020 Issued
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16/944075
Reusable components for collaborative content items Jul 29, 2020 Issued
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17/619167
Document element alignment method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium Jul 23, 2020 Issued
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16/938351
Document reference and reference update Jul 23, 2020 Issued
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16/930026
Systems and methods for expert driven document identification Jul 14, 2020 Issued
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16/929942
Method and device for text labeling based on dynamic convolution feature extraction Jul 14, 2020 Issued
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17/999992
Proofreading support apparatus, proofreading support method and proofreading support program Jun 15, 2020 Issued
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16/896713
Document risk analysis Jun 8, 2020 Issued
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16/862951
Managing compound XML documents in a repository Apr 29, 2020 Issued
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16/860857
Utility-preserving text de-identification with privacy guarantees Apr 27, 2020 Issued
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16/847594
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM Apr 12, 2020 Abandoned
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