Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
131 pending office actions • 65 art units • 128 examiners • 0 of 131 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 313 patents granted in the last 365 days
AT&T Intellectual Property I L.P. maintains an extensive portfolio with 133 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 130 distinct examiners, indicating that nearly every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio covers 67 distinct art units, reflecting a wide technical range within the networking sector. This vast distribution across 130 distinct examiners means the company must navigate a high volume of unique examiner interactions.
WHITE, DYLAN C is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This highlights the dispersion of the 133 pending office actions across the 130 distinct examiners. Managing such a large volume across 67 distinct art units requires coordination across many different patent office divisions. The 133 pending office actions represent a high level of ongoing prosecution activity, with the 67 distinct art units showing that this activity is not concentrated in a specific technical niche.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 11 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 16 (12%) |
| §103 only | 54 (41%) |
| §102 only | 2 (2%) |
| §112 only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 18 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 22 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (2%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, DYLAN C | 2 | 76.9% | +13.6% |
| BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 2 | 63.0% | +23.8% |
| BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | 2 | 88.9% | +13.3% |
| SHARMA, GAUTAM | 1 | 87.7% | +12.1% |
| DYER, ANDREW R | 1 | 59.8% | +39.5% |
| SHIN, KYUNG H | 1 | 82.0% | +10.5% |
| AKHTER, SHARMIN | 1 | 70.4% | +28.5% |
| MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 1 | 89.9% | +8.7% |
| DINH, KHANH Q | 1 | 83.6% | +4.6% |
| WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | 1 | 85.1% | +18.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498730 | NETWORK-TO-NETWORK INTERCONNECTION TRANSFER | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | 14d |
| 19296856 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF THROUGHPUT RATE TO OPTIMIZE WIRELESS DEVICE BATTERY PERFORMANCE | SHARMA, GAUTAM | — |
| 19264930 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING A BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE | SHIN, KYUNG H | — |
| 19241520 | USING A TRANSMISSION PROFILE TO PROVIDE AVAILABILITY AND SECURITY OPTIONS FOR COMMUNICATING DATA | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | — |
| 19226001 | FEDERATED IDENTITY VERIFICATION AND ACCESS CONTROL FOR PUBLIC SERVICE ENTITIES | WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | — |
| 18449733 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING A USE OF CYCLIC DELAY DIVERSITY IN RESPECT OF UPLINK MISO AND MIMO | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771022 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING NETWORK AND SYSTEM RESILIENCY AND IMPACT COORDINATION | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 18d overdue |
| 18399676 | INTELLIGENT ALLOCATION OF RESOURCE BLOCKS BASED ON MAXIMUM POWER REDUCTION | ZHU, BO HUI ALVIN | 16d overdue |
| 17749347 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LABELING DATA | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 10d overdue |
| 18794015 | MOBILE DYNAMIC THIN FIREWALL FOR ADVANCED CELLULAR NETWORKS | HERZOG, MADHURI R | 5d |
| 18971005 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING MESSAGES AND MESSAGING CONTENT | MCBETH, WILLIAM C | 6d |
| 18911375 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICE NETWORK AUTOMATION PLATFORM | TRAN, THANG DUC | 6d |
| 17232771 | INHERITED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | GALVIN-SIEBENALER, PAUL MICHAEL | 13d |
| 17227311 | INCREASING INCLUSIVITY IN MACHINE LEARNING OUTPUTS | KNIGHT, PAUL M | 14d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498730 | NETWORK-TO-NETWORK INTERCONNECTION TRANSFER | BETTENDORF, SAMUEL ROBERGE | 14d |
| 18792496 | ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCE SIGNALING AND COMMUNICATION NETWORK CONFIGURATION | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 26d |
| 19296856 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF THROUGHPUT RATE TO OPTIMIZE WIRELESS DEVICE BATTERY PERFORMANCE | SHARMA, GAUTAM | — |
| 19266391 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTER-NETWORKING AND MULTILEVEL CONTROL FOR DEVICES IN SMART HOMES AND SMART COMMUNITIES | DYER, ANDREW R | — |
| 19264930 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING A BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE | SHIN, KYUNG H | — |
| 19256298 | MONITORED AUDIO-BASED EVACUATION ROUTES | AKHTER, SHARMIN | — |
| 19252218 | MITIGATING TEMPORAL GENERALIZATION FOR A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | WHITE, DYLAN C | — |
| 19237268 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZING METAVERSE OBJECT RECOMMENDATIONS OR REVIEWS | WHITE, DYLAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2414 | 3 |
| 2465 | 3 |
| 2686 | 2 |
| 2447 | 2 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| 2433 | 2 |
| 2632 | 2 |
| 2644 | 2 |
| 2441 | 2 |
| 2192 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19296856 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF THROUGHPUT RATE TO OPTIMIZE WIRELESS DEVICE BATTERY PERFORMANCE | SHARMA, GAUTAM | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19266391 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTER-NETWORKING AND MULTILEVEL CONTROL FOR DEVICES IN SMART HOMES AND SMART COMMUNITIES | DYER, ANDREW R | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19264930 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING A BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE | SHIN, KYUNG H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19256298 | MONITORED AUDIO-BASED EVACUATION ROUTES | AKHTER, SHARMIN | 2686 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19252218 | MITIGATING TEMPORAL GENERALIZATION FOR A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | WHITE, DYLAN C | 3623 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19241520 | USING A TRANSMISSION PROFILE TO PROVIDE AVAILABILITY AND SECURITY OPTIONS FOR COMMUNICATING DATA | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 2431 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19237268 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZING METAVERSE OBJECT RECOMMENDATIONS OR REVIEWS | WHITE, DYLAN C | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19230174 | VALIDATION OF ALIGNMENT OF WIRELESS AND WIRELINE NETWORK FUNCTION CONFIGURATION WITH DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM RECORDS | DINH, KHANH Q | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19226001 | FEDERATED IDENTITY VERIFICATION AND ACCESS CONTROL FOR PUBLIC SERVICE ENTITIES | WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19226034 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED ENCODING/ENCRYPTION KEY GENERATION | ALVARADO DAVID, DORIANNE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19219243 | MEDIA CONTENT MONITORING | CORBO, NICHOLAS T | 2424 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19219513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING DATA TO END USER DATA DELIVERY VEHICLES | KWONG, CHO YIU | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19218569 | ENROLLMENT AND SHARING OF DEVICES AND NETWORK-BASED SERVICES VIA ON-PREMISES NETWORK ACCESS POINT | LI, MENG | — | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2025 |
| 19206161 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT VISUALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT AND MONITORING | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19206012 | INTRUSION DETECTION USING ROBUST SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION | ZEE, EDWARD | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19171880 | MODEL DRIVEN PROCESS FOR AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT OF DOMAIN 2.0 VIRTUALIZED SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS ON CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE | ALRIYASHI, ABDULKADER MOHAMED | 2447 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19169234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING FOR ULTRA-LOW BANDWIDTH AUDIO | SHAH, ANTIM G | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19096193 | SENSOR DEVICE-BASED DETECTION OF TRAUMA EVENTS AND RESPONSES | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19095832 | BITRATE ADAPTATION AND PREFETCHING FOR SHORT-FORM VIDEO | DUBASKY, GIGI L | 2421 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19087644 | SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CONGESTION MANAGER | NGUYEN, PHUOC H | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19083826 | FACILITY MANAGEMENT BASED ON CUMULATIVE DEVICE LOCATION DATA | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19081245 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFYING EFFECTS OF A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK SERVER ON STREAMING-MEDIA QUALITY AND PREDICTING ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS | DOSHI, AKSHAY | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19071456 | PARTICIPANT ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT AT EVENTS INCLUDING VIRTUAL REALITY EVENTS | WARNER, PHILIP N | 3624 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19069140 | AUGMENTED REALITY EVENT SWITCHING | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19069088 | CARRIER TRANSPORT VEHICLE PERSONAL SENSOR ZONE | TESTARDI, DAVID A | 3664 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19046645 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING A DIGITAL ASSISTANT PERSONA | ALVAREZ, RAQUEL | — | §101DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19033193 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEGOTIATION AND PERMANENCE MANAGEMENT OF METAVERSE MASHUPS | CHEN, YU | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18991675 | USING USER SIGNATURES TO RESOLVE AMBIGUITIES IN TEXT-TO-STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE CONVERSIONS | TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D | 2165 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2024 |
| 18983290 | AUTOMATED SECURITY HANGAR FOR PRIVATE CELLULAR NETWORKS | SALEHI, HELAI | 2433 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18980321 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATING THE GENERATION OF A RESPONSE TO A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UTILIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) | AZIZ, SHEZA ABDUL | 2657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18975223 | Providing Anti-Fraud Protection in a 5G Network Using Offline Registration | SHAH, TANMAY K | 2632 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18974698 | MULTI-OPERATOR RADIO ACCESS NETWORK | VU, QUOC THAI NGOC | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18972027 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-DRIVEN MESSAGING ASSISTANT FOR HANDLING MESSAGES | TIV, BACKHEAN | 2459 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18972637 | PASSIVE INTERMODULATION INTERFERENCE DETECTION AND MITIGATION IN CELLULAR NETWORKS | RICHMOND, GARTH DANIEL | 2644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18971005 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING MESSAGES AND MESSAGING CONTENT | MCBETH, WILLIAM C | 2449 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18968416 | QUALITY OF SERVICE CLASS IDENTIFIER FORECASTING AS-A-SERVICE | NEFF, MICHAEL R | 2631 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18967629 | PROVIDING USER SUPPORT DURING VOICE CALLS VIA GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | ORGAD, EDAN | 2414 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18964793 | NETWORK-BASED COLLECTION OF USER ACTIVITY DATA FOR PERSONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | 2454 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18953194 | CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF USER DEVICES VIA UNIVERSAL IP SERVICES REGISTRAR/HUB | NGUYEN, QUANG N | 2441 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18953150 | VIRTUAL REALITY AVATAR ATTENTION-BASED SERVICES | LHYMN, SARAH | 2613 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18951519 | IMPLEMENTING NETWORK SECURITY RULES IN HOME ROUTERS | SALL, EL HADJI MALICK | 2457 | DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18950956 | USER ASSOCIATION FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL FOR 5G OR OTHER NEXT GENERATION NETWORK | ZUNIGA ABAD, JACKIE | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18948633 | DUAL SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE RADIO DEVICE AND SERVICE RECOVERY METHOD | CASCA, FRED A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18944189 | CARRIER AGGREGATION - HANDOVER SYNERGISM | MAGLOIRE, ELISABETH BENOIT | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18940037 | TRUSTED SYSTEM FOR PRIVACY-PRESERVING VALIDATION OF INDIVIDUALS | AMBAYE, SAMUEL | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18940716 | MOBILITY SUBSCRIBER MALWARE DETECTION THROUGH EVENT DATA RECORD SIGNATURE | HO, HUY C | 2644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18940354 | FACILITATION OF LOCAL DISASTER MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING RESILIENCY FOR 5G OR OTHER NEXT GENERATION NETWORK | EL-ZOOBI, MARIA | — | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18937204 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FACILITATING CONNECTION OF BROWSERS HAVING DIFFERENT TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY VERSIONS USING A REVERSE PROXY SERVER | KANERVO, VIRPI H | 3691 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18937371 | SYSTEM FOR SATELLITE DISCOVERY AND DECOMMISSION OF ORBITAL OBSTRUCTIONS | TRUONG, LAN-HUONG | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18921825 | FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPERATION FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) | LEE, CHI HO A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAT&T Intellectual Property I L.P. has 131 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 65 art units and 128 examiners.
Dylan C White has the most, with 2 of AT&T Intellectual Property I L.P.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.