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Richard T. Elms

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 50, Phone: (571)272-1869 , Office: P/2824 )

Most Active Art Unit
2836
Art Unit(s)
3652, 2836, 2104, 2824, 2107
Total Applications
633
Issued Applications
538
Pending Applications
17
Abandoned Applications
78

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/933025
Retrieval and playout of media content Jul 19, 2020 Issued
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16/927672
Systems and methods for electronic group exchange of digital business cards during video conference, teleconference or meeting at social distance Jul 12, 2020 Issued
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16/926719
Value-based transmission in an autonomous vehicle Jul 11, 2020 Issued
Array ( [id] => 18919701 [patent_doc_number] => 11882000 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-01-23 [patent_title] => Network management system for federated multi-site logical network [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/906925 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2020-06-19 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 36 [patent_figures_cnt] => 36 [patent_no_of_words] => 30111 [patent_no_of_claims] => 22 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 8 [patent_words_short_claim] => 95 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16906925 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/906925
Network management system for federated multi-site logical network Jun 18, 2020 Issued
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17/618982
Media streaming Jun 14, 2020 Issued
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16/899524
Multi-channel engagement platform converter Jun 10, 2020 Issued
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16/946238
Device identification systems and methods Jun 10, 2020 Issued
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16/896094
Health monitoring of automatically deployed and managed network pipelines Jun 7, 2020 Issued
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16/877196
Technologies for integrating cloud content items across platforms May 17, 2020 Issued
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16/872150
Providing an optimal resource to a client computer via interactive dialog May 10, 2020 Issued
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16/866228
Technologies for integrating cloud content items across platforms May 3, 2020 Issued
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16/866253
Technologies for integrating cloud content items across platforms May 3, 2020 Issued
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16/857766
Application initiated conversations for chatbots Apr 23, 2020 Issued
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16/842552
Quality of service (QoS) setting recommendations for volumes across a cluster Apr 6, 2020 Issued
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16/836980
Application management apparatus, information processing system, and recording medium storing therein application management program Mar 31, 2020 Issued
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16/834219
Interface apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving media data Mar 29, 2020 Issued
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17/914546
Similarity degree calculator, authorization system, similarity degree calculation method, similarity degree calculation program, and method for generating similarity degree calculation program Mar 26, 2020 Issued
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17/310734
Anti-phishing apparatus and method Mar 26, 2020 Abandoned
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16/785992
Transmitting broadcast domain configurations Feb 9, 2020 Issued
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16/779118
Uploading and transcoding media files Jan 30, 2020 Issued
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