Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
202 pending office actions • 95 art units • 188 examiners • 0 of 202 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 745 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bank of America Corporation maintains an extensive patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, featuring 238 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 223 distinct examiners, which indicates a highly decentralized prosecution strategy. Saad Ahmad Abdullah is the busiest examiner, currently managing 3 pending office actions.
The company's active matters span 93 distinct art units, reflecting a broad technical footprint across the patent office. With 238 pending office actions and 223 distinct examiners, the vast majority of examiners are handling only a single matter for the company. This distribution requires the company to manage relationships and prosecution styles across a very large and diverse group of patent office personnel.
The presence of 93 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations touch on a wide variety of technical disciplines within its primary technology area. Saad Ahmad Abdullah's 3 pending office actions represent the highest concentration of work with this examiner, yet this is a small fraction of the total volume. Practitioners must be prepared for a wide range of examiner behaviors given the large pool of distinct examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 53 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. 53 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 | 22 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 55 (27%) |
| §103 only | 66 (33%) |
| §102 only | 6 (3%) |
| §112 only | 8 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 18 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (0%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 22 (11%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2 | 75.4% | +12.8% |
| RAHIM, MONJUR | 2 | 84.6% | +16.3% |
| TRAN, TRI MINH | 2 | 81.7% | +34.8% |
| NANO, SARGON N | 2 | 80.8% | -1.5% |
| ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 2 | 46.0% | +49.9% |
| EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 2 | 1.9% | +1.0% |
| HEBERT, THEODORE E | 2 | 74.1% | +14.5% |
| SUN, CHARLIE | 2 | 91.0% | +12.3% |
| KASSIM, IMAD MUTEE | 2 | 74.6% | +30.8% |
| BASOM, BLAINE T | 2 | 43.1% | +20.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227296 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND PREVENTING MISAPPROPRIATION USING NORMALIZED REQUEST SEQUENCES | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| 19095201 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR VERIFYING AUTHENTICATION CREDENTIALS IN AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| 19095378 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR GENERATING DATA STRINGS AND FOR MANAGING ENCRYPTED DATA IN DATA CONTAINERS IN AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK | TRAN, TRI MINH | — |
| 18937742 | Detecting Malicious Email Campaigns with Unique but Similarly-Spelled Attachments | NANO, SARGON N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17857307 | SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY DETECTION AND VERIFICATION IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT | ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E | 142d overdue |
| 18161667 | Token Account Payment Computing System | ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | 113d overdue |
| 18477719 | System and Method for Managing Interactions on a Blockchain Network | RAZA, ZEHRA | 46d overdue |
| 18586223 | System and method to determine out of balance conditions | RINES, ROBERT D | 44d overdue |
| 18060906 | Digital Format Custodial Services | CHOI, YUE YIN | 44d overdue |
| 18604039 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION FEATURES FOR MISAPPROPRIATION DETECTION | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 29d overdue |
| 18637895 | Intelligent Secure Method to Orchestrate Coupling of Distributed Memory Storage Leveraging PCCO and DIP | MENDEL, JULIAN SCOTT | 23d overdue |
| 18110461 | REAL-TIME CROSS-CHANNEL VERIFICATION | APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ | 19d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18630434 | System and Method for Improving the Testing Phase of Software Development Life Cycles | HEBERT, THEODORE E | 40d |
| 19290440 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING TIME-RESTRICTED ACCESS CONTROL TO ELECTRONIC DIGITAL RESOURCES | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 19227296 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND PREVENTING MISAPPROPRIATION USING NORMALIZED REQUEST SEQUENCES | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| 19095201 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR VERIFYING AUTHENTICATION CREDENTIALS IN AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| 19095378 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR GENERATING DATA STRINGS AND FOR MANAGING ENCRYPTED DATA IN DATA CONTAINERS IN AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK | TRAN, TRI MINH | — |
| 18944905 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND TRACKING DIGITAL CERTIFICATES FOR SECURE INTERFACING IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK | TRAN, TRI MINH | — |
| 18914409 | DECENTRALIZED E-CASH PAYMENTS THROUGH NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | — |
| 18663746 | System and method for dynamic test script generation and execution for website performance improvement | HEBERT, THEODORE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 7 |
| 2114 | 6 |
| 2432 | 6 |
| 2439 | 5 |
| 2493 | 5 |
| 3699 | 5 |
| 3624 | 5 |
| 2141 | 5 |
| 2193 | 5 |
| 3695 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19299288 | Dormant Service Account Disablement System | WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | 2407 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19294766 | Systems and Methods for Display Notifications for Routing of Electronic Transaction Processing Results | MASUD, ROKIB | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19290440 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING TIME-RESTRICTED ACCESS CONTROL TO ELECTRONIC DIGITAL RESOURCES | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2439 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19290066 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR PROACTIVE RESILIENCY, REDUNDANCY AND SECURITY REMEDIATION ACROSS A NETWORK BASED ON DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS | BARRY, LANCE LEONARD | 2457 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19289816 | SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE RESOURCE EVENT DEVICE REMOVAL PROCESS | DEBNATH, SUMAN | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19286430 | BANKING AT AN ATM USING A MOBILE DEVICE | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19269859 | Virtual Machine Image Management System | NGUYEN, TRONG H | 2436 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19257180 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA TRACE AND SEQUENCE DETERMINATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS | AGUIAR, JOHNNY B | 2447 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19256294 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND REDIRECTING INCOMING UNAUTHORIZED DATA ACCESS REQUESTS | RAHMAN, SHAWNCHOY | 2438 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19241772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSACTION RECONCILIATION AND ANOMALY DETECTION USING TOKENIZED DECENTRALIZED MESH | WASEL, MOHAMED A | 2454 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19232519 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING AUTHENTICATION CONTROL PROTOCOLS VIA COMPONENTS OF AN ENTITY DEVICE | SUH, ANDREW | 2493 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19227296 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND PREVENTING MISAPPROPRIATION USING NORMALIZED REQUEST SEQUENCES | RAHIM, MONJUR | 2436 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19225218 | System and Method for Matching Multiple Featureless Images Across a Time Series for Outage Prediction and Prevention | BUTLER, SARAI E | 2114 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19222713 | Altering card device attributes in response to detecting a proximity intrusion | WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | 2443 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19222968 | System and Method for Operating Distributed Computer Systems | KO, CHAE M | 2114 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19200782 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DETECTING USER ACCOUNT MISAPPROPRIATION ATTEMPTS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK | YANG, HAN | 2493 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19199508 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION AND REPLICATION IN DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19199632 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CAUSES OF NETWORK ANOMALIES ACROSS A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK | LEIBOVICH, YAIR | 2114 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19183990 | CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE PLATFORM | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 3699 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19181500 | Intelligent Routing Signaling System | ZENATI, AMAL S | 2693 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19178746 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR USING AN ANOMALY DETERRENT SENSOR WITHIN A SELF-SERVICE MACHINE FOR DISPENSING PHYSICAL ITEMS | PREVIL, DANIEL | 2685 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19178340 | Securing user interfaces of a computing cluster | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 2445 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19177313 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA PROTECTION IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK VIA RECONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA SEGMENTS | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 2496 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19095201 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR VERIFYING AUTHENTICATION CREDENTIALS IN AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK | RAHIM, MONJUR | 2436 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19095248 | SYSTEM FOR AUGMENTED HASH-BASED PORTIONING OF NON-FUNGIBLE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR DETECTION OF UNAUTHORIZED DUPLICATES | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 2496 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19095378 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR GENERATING DATA STRINGS AND FOR MANAGING ENCRYPTED DATA IN DATA CONTAINERS IN AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK | TRAN, TRI MINH | 2432 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19094040 | WEB APPLICATION FIREWALL CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT | SHAW, BRIAN F | 2432 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19055815 | TechWiki - Computer Diagnostics using Quantum Annealing and Blockchain Framework | MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D | 2113 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19056038 | SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING AND CONTROLLING ACCESS AND PRIVILEGES IN A VIRTUAL REALITY COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON AUTHENTICATED IDENTITIES | WANG, YI | 2619 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19048539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ROUTING USERS TO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF AN APPLICATION IN REAL-TIME | DABIPI, DIXON F | 2451 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19024275 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO BUILD DYNAMIC APPLICATION PROMPTS WITH SUMMARIZATION FROM INTERACTION DATA | TRACY JR., EDWARD | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19016293 | Intelligent Real-Time User Interface Analysis and Guidance Generation Using Reference Resolution Mode | SERROU, ABDELALI | 2659 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19014530 | Targeted Audio Neutralization Using Predictive Modeling | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19007810 | System and method for dynamic partitioning, encryption, and compression based on text patterns | LE, CANH | 2439 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18971653 | A system and method for improving computing performance of a data center | PATEL, KAMINI B | 2114 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18970259 | DATA GOVERNANCE FOR SANITIZATION AND MANIPULATION OF RESTRICTED DATA BASED ON DETECTED SECURITY THREAT | FENSTERMACHER, JASON B | 3698 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18968087 | Hardware Security Module Implementation as Edge Devices in a Networked System | AHMED, MAHABUB S | 2434 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18966887 | TEMPLATE AUTOMATION AND MANAGEMENT | POE, KEVIN T | 3692 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18965052 | SMART CONTRACT GENERATOR | KANERVO, VIRPI H | 3691 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18961632 | Anomaly Detection and Resolution Using Artificial Intelligence | AHMED, ZAIN JIM | 2432 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18961666 | Leveraging Noise Cancelling Technology for Dynamic Voice Authentication | LEUNG, ROBERT B | 2494 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18953617 | A system and method for detecting and managing a data breach in a computing network | POWERS, WILLIAM S | 2496 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18952530 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC XML FORMATTING OF IMAGE DATA | PATEL, JAYESH A | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18952501 | AGGREGATED OCR ATTRIBUTE DETERMINATION SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED DATA ACCURACY | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18950552 | CONFIGURABLE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM | 2434 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18944905 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND TRACKING DIGITAL CERTIFICATES FOR SECURE INTERFACING IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK | TRAN, TRI MINH | 2432 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18937742 | Detecting Malicious Email Campaigns with Unique but Similarly-Spelled Attachments | NANO, SARGON N | 2443 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18936165 | Intelligence Model for Analyzing and Determining Transaction Dispute Propensity | BUNKER, WILLIAM B | 3691 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18932912 | Tracking Data Throughout An Asset Lifecycle | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18933414 | Alerting on Anomalous Authorization Requests Derived with Proximity Graph | GYORFI, THOMAS A | 2435 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBank of America Corporation has 202 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 95 art units and 188 examiners.
Christopher J Brown has the most, with 2 of Bank of America Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.