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John C. Ball

Examiner (ID: 18713, Phone: (571)270-5119 , Office: P/1759 )

Most Active Art Unit
1795
Art Unit(s)
4128, 1759, 1795
Total Applications
1530
Issued Applications
1171
Pending Applications
92
Abandoned Applications
297

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/972684
Intelligently determining terms of a conditional finance offer Oct 24, 2022 Issued
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18/047502
DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONFIGURABLE INVOICE GENERATION Oct 17, 2022 Pending
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18/047298
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMER-FACING INVENTORY FOR ONLINE AND OFFLINE ENVIRONMENTS Oct 17, 2022 Pending
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17/966895
NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Oct 16, 2022 Pending
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17/961261
CONSUMER INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF Oct 5, 2022 Pending
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18/697804
METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PERISHABLE PRODUCTS Oct 2, 2022 Pending
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17/955724
Systems and methods for cloud-based management of payment devices Sep 28, 2022 Issued
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17/953699
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING ASSORTMENT TOOL AND INTEGRATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR HYPER LOCALIZATION Sep 26, 2022 Pending
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17/943639
APPLYING RETROACTIVE ADJUSTMENTS TO FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS Sep 12, 2022 Pending
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17/815552
USING A MULTI-ARMED BANDIT APPROACH FOR BOOSTING CATEGORIZATION PERFORMANCE Jul 26, 2022 Pending
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17/856967
INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF PRODUCTS AND MATCHING STOCK WITH FORECASTED SALES VOLUMES PER PRODUCT TYPE IN AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINES Jul 1, 2022 Abandoned
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18/580509
SITE INSPECTION-BASED PRODUCT HISTORY MANAGEMENT METHOD Jun 27, 2022 Pending
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17/843452
INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Jun 16, 2022 Pending
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17/837526
FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS EXAMINATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS Jun 9, 2022 Pending
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17/806214
Virtual point of sale Jun 8, 2022 Issued
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17/829893
Systems and computerized methods for item correlation and prioritization May 31, 2022 Issued
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17/804393
Equipment staging application and platform May 26, 2022 Issued
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18/564786
SYSTEM FOR INVENTORY TRACKING May 25, 2022 Pending
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17/746931
Artificial intelligence (AI) order taking system enabling agents to make corrections via point of sale (POS) devices May 16, 2022 Issued
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17/736858
Methods and apparatus for unified inventory management May 3, 2022 Issued
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