Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Shihab Alam, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as ALAM, SHIHAB

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2197 2432 4100

This examiner grants 0% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

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Allow Rate
-60.0% vs TC avg
24
Total Applications
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Interview Lift
0
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 0 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

27.5%
§101 Eligibility
6.3%
§102 Novelty
37.5%
§103 Obviousness
26.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18611617 COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS CONFIGURED TO DYNAMICALLY UPDATE A UNIFORM DATA STATE BASED ON A UTILIZATION OF A PLUGIN ENGINE Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18407956 API CALL METHOD, API CALL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18533561 TASK SCHEDULING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND HARDWARE TASK SCHEDULER Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18556968 Application Keepalive Method, Electronic Device, and Storage Medium Final Rejection Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18620957 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING AND ASSIGNING THREADS IN A HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE Non-Final OA QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
18598094 Multi-Cluster Carbon Aware Balancing Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18596713 ADVANCED EXPLOITATION OF MULTITHREADING TO BOOST MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE PERFORMANCE FOR DECISION-TREE BASED ENSEMBLES Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18508407 PROCESS SMART DEPENDENCIES DETECTION Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18752694 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDENTIFY DIMENSIONS OF THREADS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18361944 VEHICLE WORKLOAD OFFBOARDING Final Rejection Ford Global Technologies, LLC
18499127 SECURE VIRTUAL MACHINE AND PERIPHERAL DEVICE COMMUNICATION Final Rejection Red Hat, Inc.
18362206 CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION SYSTEM MONITORING FOR DEPENDENCIES ON REMOTE SYSTEMS Final Rejection Red Hat, Inc.
18732715 POLLER WITH SHARED RECEIVE QUEUES AND CPU GROUPS FOR STORAGE CLUSTER Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.

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Which art unit does examiner Shihab Alam work in?

Shihab Alam examines applications in Art Unit 2197 in Tech Center 4100.

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