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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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17/221057
PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK SEGMENTATION FOR MULTI-TENANT FPGAS IN CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES Apr 1, 2021 Abandoned
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17/213626
MONITORING SYSTEM NETWORK AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MONITORING SYSTEM NETWORK Mar 25, 2021 Abandoned
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17/211858
BINARY-ADDITION TREE ALGORITHM-BASED NETWORK ASSESSMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF Mar 24, 2021 Abandoned
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17/200054
Method and apparatus for providing remote user interface services Mar 11, 2021 Issued
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17/188303
Network switch and network switch system thereof Feb 28, 2021 Issued
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17/182004
Enabling communications between a controlling device and a network-controlled device via a network-connected device service over a mobile communications network Feb 21, 2021 Issued
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17/179149
Distributed pipeline configuration in a distributed computing system Feb 17, 2021 Issued
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17/248881
IMS support for non-voice services Feb 10, 2021 Issued
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17/156274
AD HOC SYNCHRONIZATION OF DATA FROM MULTIPLE LINK COORDINATED SENSING SYSTEMS Jan 21, 2021 Abandoned
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17/269922
COMPUTER DEVICE INCLUDING DIVIDED SECURITY MODULE AND METHOD FOR UPDATING SECURITY MODULE Dec 29, 2020 Pending
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17/127303
Building system with ledger based software gateways Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/127015
COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL TERMINAL, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD Dec 17, 2020 Abandoned
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17/118959
PORT UNAVAILABILITY REMEDIATION SYSTEM Dec 10, 2020 Abandoned
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17/111835
DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATIONS OF SERVER AND NETWORK LAYERS OF DATACENTER ENVIRONMENTS Dec 3, 2020 Abandoned
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17/756126
BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEM, PROGRAM AND NETWORK CONNECTION APPARATUS Nov 12, 2020 Abandoned
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17/080638
DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SCREEN SHARING Oct 25, 2020 Abandoned
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17/079461
Implementing logical DHCP servers in logical networks Oct 23, 2020 Issued
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17/070155
Cloud access to local network addresses Oct 13, 2020 Issued
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17/009348
Systems and methods for suppressing repetitive notifications about messages in messaging groups Aug 31, 2020 Issued
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16/945230
Service providing system and method for preventing hidden camera, service providing apparatus therefor, and non-transitory computer readable medium having computer program recorded thereon Jul 30, 2020 Issued
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