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Examiner Willis Amanda L

2156-WILLIS-AMANDA-L

Employment Information

Art Unit:2156 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Group:2150-2160 — Data Bases & File Management
Classes: 707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
709 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring
711 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Phone:(571) 270-7691
Email:amanda.willis@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Computer Science
Service:17 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

92
3-Year Grant rate: 23% over 111 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 92nd

With Examiner Willis, you have a 23% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Willis is an extremely hard examiner and in the 92nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Willis, where the timeline is relative to the date of the first office action. The three-year grant rate is the percentage of applications granted at three years after the first office action.

Comparison with Art Unit 2156

Examiner Willis's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2156 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Willis 2.8
Art Unit 2156 1.8

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Willis has granted 13 of 49 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 27%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Willis has granted 13 of 62 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 21%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Willis, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 22%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17881063 Hybrid Positional Posting Lists Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18642294 Automatic Article Enrichment By Social Media Trends Patented View
16370307 Techniques To Determine Portfolio Relevant Articles Abandoned View
17232118 Method And Device For Establishing Information Model And Non-Volatile Computer Readable Recording Medium Abandoned View
18461165 Methods And Apparatus To Perform Computer-Based Community Detection In A Network Abandoned View
18759168 Systems And Methods For Machine Learning-Based Classification And Governance Of Unstructured Data Using Curated Virtual Queues Patented View
17882862 Reducing Probabilistic Filter Query Latency Patented View
18077889 Computer-Implemented Method Of Searching Large-Volume Un-Structured Data With Feedback Loop And Data Processing Device Or System For The Same Abandoned View
17733440 System And Method For Incremental View Maintenance Based On Differential Calculus Over Natural Algebra Of K-Relations Abandoned View
16792473 System And Methods For Consolidating Account Data Abandoned View
16796504 Connecting Storyboard System To Editorial System Abandoned View
17710009 Methods, Mediums, And Systems For Reusable Intelligent Search Workflows Patented View
17477563 Assessing Data Records Abandoned View
17207435 Systems And Methods For Creating Enhanced Documents For Perfect Automated Parsing Patented View
17746601 Distributed Query Plan Generation Patented View
16373103 Index Compression Using Reordering And Self-Updates Patented View
17733157 Artificial Intelligence Assisted Transfer Tool Abandoned View
16945578 Generating And Storing Aggregate Data Slices In A Remote Shared Storage System Patented View
17065404 Metadata Table Resizing Mechanism For Increasing System Performance Abandoned View
15133090 Clustering For Social Media Data Abandoned View
17483270 System And Method For Dynamic Memory Allocation For Query Execution Abandoned View
17461472 Querying A Database Abandoned View
17362614 Decentralized Query Evaluation For A Distributed Graph Database Abandoned View
16370440 Deleting Data In Storage Systems That Perform Garbage Collection Abandoned View
15134227 Generating Mobile-Friendliness Scores For Resources Abandoned View
15238567 Methods And Procedures For Timestamp-Based Indexing Of Items In Real-Time Storage Patented View
17814694 Execution-Time Dynamic Range Partitioning Transformations Patented View
17587498 Text Recognition Method And Apparatus Abandoned View
16782025 Techniques For Executing Join Operations Using Bitmap Indices Patented View
16578017 Object Coding In A Host-Side Processing Device Abandoned View
16895992 Reply Information Obtaining Method And Apparatus Abandoned View
16878551 Metadata Table Resizing Mechanism For Increasing System Performance Abandoned View
16406559 Validation Of Operating Plans And Schedules Using Machine Learning Patented View
16985324 Virtual Dataset Management Database System Abandoned View
17133859 Query Tree Labeling And Processing Patented View
16370174 Methods And Systems For Supply Chain Analytics Patented View
17460976 Methods For Categorizing Information From A Platform In A Document Management System Abandoned View
17206697 Text Query Method And Apparatus, Device And Storage Medium Abandoned View
16916433 System And Method For Identifying Pairs Of Related Information Items Abandoned View
16984483 Generating Entity Relation Suggestions Within A Corpus Abandoned View
16866081 Partial Updates In Data Collections In A Data Storage System Abandoned View
16111587 Handling Of An Index Update Of Time Series Data Patented View
16818464 Method And Apparatus For Implementing An N-Dimensional Hypercube Visualization Module Abandoned View
16677427 Indicating Synonym Relationships Using Semantic Graph Data Abandoned View
16286164 Using Cache And Bloom Filters For Url Lookups Abandoned View
17023039 Method And Apparatus For Retrieving Video, Device And Medium Abandoned View
15804092 Sorting Of Numeric Values Using An Identification Of Superlative Adjectives Abandoned View
15681043 Sorting Of Numeric Values Using An Identification Of Superlative Adjectives Abandoned View
17157457 Configurable Hyper-Referenced Associative Object Schema Abandoned View
16431092 Utilizing Machine Learning To Determine Data Storage Pruning Parameters Patented View

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