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Step 1 of 7

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Step 2 of 7

Drop the zip; it is opened before it is even uploaded

No fields, no slots, nothing to rename. The archive is read in the browser the instant it lands, every document is identified, and the practitioner sees exactly what will be examined before pressing anything.

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70214-0031US1.zip 6 documents · 5.4 MB
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Specification 70214-0031US1_specification.docx 1.2 MB
Claims 70214-0031US1_claims.docx 46 KB
Drawings 70214-0031US1_drawings_16sheets.pdf 3.8 MB
Prior art PTO-SB-08a_signed.pdf + 1 more 578 KB
Office action not included optional
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Ready to examine. Specification and claims found, drawings too.

The same rules run on the server when the archive arrives, so what is shown here is what is stored. Anything unreadable is named, never silently dropped. Then one button, an upload with a real progress bar, and the tracking page takes over.

Step 3 of 7

The tracking page runs live, then opens the report itself

Every claim is parsed into its limitations, every dependency resolved, every "the X" traced to the "a X" that introduced it, and every claim term checked against the drawings. The practitioner watches the stages advance with a running clock, and when the report lands the page opens it without a click.

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Claims parsed
20
3 independent · 17 dependent
Paragraphs
161
18,541 words
Figures
16
Every claim term shown
Antecedent audit
Clean
0 unresolved references
The ladder, as parsedThree trees
Claim 1 · method · 249 words · 4 clauses
Independent
Claim 3 · records-read scalability, support at [0116]
Art does not reach it
Claim 6 · floor achievability, support at [0103]
Allowable if independent
Claim 2 · closed-loop pacing on a spend error
Reads on cited art
Claim 14 · record · 249 words
Independent
Claim 19 · apparatus · 248 words
Independent

Claim 2 is flagged, not condemned. A dependent that reads on cited art can be a cheap position held on purpose. The report says which it is.

Step 4 of 7

Every reference is retrieved before it is cited

Publication number, date, assignee and the passage relied on are read against the retrieved record. A reference that cannot be served by any accessible database is named as unverified rather than quietly used, which is the difference between a search you can file behind and one you cannot.

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References of record
52
38 patent · 14 non-patent
Retrieved and read
44
Every field verified
Could not be served
8
Named, not used
Field median
28
TC 2100
ReferenceWhat it ownsStatus
Panda, Adaptive LLM Routing under Budget Constraints, EMNLP Findings 2025 Contextual-bandit LLM routing under per-user budgets, solved as a knapsack Verified
Angelopoulos A threshold calibrated so an expected loss is bounded by a chosen risk level Verified
Dean Hierarchical allocation tree whose children borrow idle capacity, borrowing blocked for persistent over-users Verified
Xu Spend against a target trajectory with PID pacing Verified
Eight post-April-2026 publications Named in the applicant's manifest, including an intelligent-router filing and a performance-based routing filing Unverified

The eight unverified ones become an action item, not a citation: retrieve them from Patent Center and list them on the IDS before filing.

Step 5 of 7

Claim 1, charted limitation by limitation

The chart is built the way an examiner builds one: each limitation against the reference that reaches it, and an explicit statement of what nothing reaches. The gap is the part that decides the case.

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Limitation of claim 1Reached byStatus
Maintaining a parent budget allocated across child accounts as child budgets Dean · hierarchical allocation treeTaught
Maintaining, per child account, a trajectory, a running spend, a risk level, and a floor Xu · spend against a target trajectoryTaught
Selecting a candidate model whose acceptability score is at or above a calibrated threshold Angelopoulos · bounded expected lossTaught
Routing under a per-account budget constraint Panda · contextual bandit, knapsackTaught
Reallocating to maximize the minimum of the certified qualities, each a decreasing function of its account's risk level Nothing citedThe gap

Nothing in the art measures an account's service level by the risk level at which its requests are certified, then allocates budget to raise the lowest such measure. Assembling that requires the application as the roadmap.

Four limitations reached, one not. That single row is what the traverse argues and what the fallback protects.

Step 6 of 7

The rejection, and the amendment that answers it

Every rejection arrives with the response already drafted, worded, and traced to support in the specification. What it costs in scope is stated plainly, because a fallback you cannot price is not a fallback.

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Claim 1 over Panda in view of Angelopoulos and Dean

Expected in the first action

Every limitation but the max-min-certified-quality coupling is reached by the combination. That coupling is the traverse, and behind it claim 6 carries a limitation no cited reference reaches.

the reallocating is further constrained such that the child budget of each child account remains at or above an amount the child account is projected to consume over a remainder of the period while requests of the child account are certified at the floor

Prepared response Traverse on the max-min-certified-quality coupling. If the examiner holds, roll claim 6 into claim 1. The scope surrendered is implementations whose quality floors are nominal rather than budget-backed, which no serious competitor would ship.

The report carries the same treatment for 101, 102 and 112, plus the drafting benchmarks, a prosecution forecast, and a valuation.

Step 7 of 7

What lands in the account

One document, readable in the browser or printed to PDF for the file. It opens with a one‑page summary and carries the record it was built on, so the report and the documents that produced it can be tied together months later.

Allowance outlook
84/100
Issues in 1 to 2 actions
Drafting grade
90/100
Top 5% on figures and support
Rejections forecast
1 §103
No §102, no §112
Strategic value
$200k–800k
Detectability is the constraint
Sections in every report13
Summary · the nine-line scorecard
Input of record · every file, with fingerprints
Verdict · the five-minute read
Panel · ten judges, weighted
Claim ladder · every rung mapped
Benchmarks · against the technology center
§ 112 · definiteness and support
§ 101 · both prongs, with the fallback
§ 103 · charted, with the response drafted
Allowable subject matter · and why
Prosecution forecast · actions, RCE odds, pendency
Valuation · brokered, strategic, licensing
Actions · ranked by effect on the outcome