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Stephen M. Hepperle

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 308, Phone: (571)272-4913 , Office: P/3700 )

Most Active Art Unit
3407
Art Unit(s)
3407, 3753, 3700
Total Applications
2621
Issued Applications
2150
Pending Applications
140
Abandoned Applications
331

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/849158
CALCULATING APPLICATION SERVICE ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK May 12, 2022 Pending
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18/848843
POLICY CONTROL AND CHARGING FOR DATA CHANNELS IN INTERNET PROTOCOL MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM NETWORKS May 4, 2022 Pending
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17/723075
System and method for browser-based target data extraction Apr 17, 2022 Issued
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17/722032
Cloud access to local network addresses Apr 14, 2022 Issued
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17/708110
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING DYNAMICALLY INVOKED COMPUTER CODE USING LITERAL VALUES Mar 29, 2022 Pending
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17/706165
Remote secured console over a secured connection for inoperable virtual machine Mar 27, 2022 Issued
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17/701896
Internet protocol messages via short message service Mar 22, 2022 Issued
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17/699236
GENERATION OF MULTIPLE LIMITED-SCOPE ACCESS TOKENS Mar 20, 2022 Pending
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18/549353
DISTRIBUTED ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS AND SYSTEM Mar 14, 2022 Pending
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17/690654
Updating a cluster of nodes in a network appliance Mar 8, 2022 Issued
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18/833972
BANDWIDTH MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND METHOD Mar 7, 2022 Pending
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17/681348
Multifunctional application gateway for security and privacy Feb 24, 2022 Issued
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17/673015
BLOCKCHAIN-BASED COLLABORATIVE MAINTENANCE PLATFORM Feb 15, 2022 Pending
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17/672913
Content matching and vulnerability remediation Feb 15, 2022 Issued
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17/579964
Nested request-response protocol network communications Jan 19, 2022 Issued
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17/576749
Domain management and synchronization system Jan 13, 2022 Issued
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17/574071
Compressed message tracing and parsing Jan 11, 2022 Issued
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17/523555
Encrypted database systems including homomorphic encryption Nov 9, 2021 Issued
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17/523013
Protecting the integrity of measurement data acquired by a sensor device Nov 9, 2021 Issued
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17/514519
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-SERVICE PROCESSING Oct 28, 2021 Abandoned
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