Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
65 pending office actions • 44 art units • 61 examiners • 0 of 65 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 168 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd. has 68 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The portfolio is distributed among 63 examiners and 46 art units, reflecting broad examination coverage. Because the number of examiners is close to the number of pending matters, examiner-specific coordination is likely to be more important than managing a small group of concentrated relationships.
PHAM, LINH K is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should maintain consistent positions on software claim language and disclosure while adapting arguments to different examination groups. Art-unit organization can support prior-art review and response planning, whereas the limited concentration at the busiest examiner does not support a single-examiner prosecution model.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 30 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. 30 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 | 4 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (14%) |
| §103 only | 37 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, LINH K | 2 | 80.9% | +28.8% |
| MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 2 | 42.5% | +25.7% |
| TRAN, TUYETLIEN T | 2 | 68.3% | +32.9% |
| TELAN, MICHAEL R | 2 | 42.7% | +27.4% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.5% | +19.8% |
| CHOI, YUK TING | 1 | 71.5% | +36.4% |
| FLORES, LEON | 1 | 90.4% | +10.7% |
| HONG, STEPHEN S | 1 | 39.4% | +23.9% |
| MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 1 | 77.6% | +28.3% |
| BHATNAGAR, ANAND P | 1 | 91.6% | +2.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18920315 | SPEAKING USER SELECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PHAM, LINH K | — |
| 18853063 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | BHATNAGAR, ANAND P | — |
| 18555427 | INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PHAM, LINH K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043522 | HOT WORD EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | PARK, CHAN S | 147d overdue |
| 18720580 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN | 9d overdue |
| 17761504 | LIST FLOW IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LU, HWEI-MIN | 6d |
| 18254426 | REAL TIME CHAT SYSTEM AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JAKOVAC, RYAN J | 8d |
| 18398563 | PRODUCT REVIEW METHOD, APPARATUS AND CLIENT TERMINAL | MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J | 12d |
| 18012610 | OPERATION CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS | THOMAS, ERIC M | 21d |
| 18256591 | ABNORMAL REQUEST PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SEYE, ABDOU K | 60d |
| 18275778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING LIGHTING IMAGE, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | BADER, ROBERT N. | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18551089 | INTERACTION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | TELAN, MICHAEL R | 4d overdue |
| 19196236 | SEARCH TRIGGERING WITH MEDIA CONTENT HAVING DIFFERENT DURATIONS | CHOI, YUK TING | 3d overdue |
| 18264899 | VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TRAN, TUYETLIEN T | 22d |
| 18711837 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 47d |
| 19234675 | VIRTUAL GIFT DISPLAY METHOD, SERVER, AND TARGET RECEIVING END | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18865668 | IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FLORES, LEON | — |
| 18861171 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EDITING AUDIO | HONG, STEPHEN S | — |
| 18920315 | SPEAKING USER SELECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PHAM, LINH K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2179 | 6 |
| 2174 | 4 |
| 2171 | 4 |
| 2421 | 3 |
| 2178 | 2 |
| 2417 | 2 |
| 2425 | 2 |
| 2172 | 2 |
| 2611 | 2 |
| 2195 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19234675 | VIRTUAL GIFT DISPLAY METHOD, SERVER, AND TARGET RECEIVING END | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19196236 | SEARCH TRIGGERING WITH MEDIA CONTENT HAVING DIFFERENT DURATIONS | CHOI, YUK TING | 2164 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 18865668 | IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FLORES, LEON | 2676 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18861171 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EDITING AUDIO | HONG, STEPHEN S | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18920315 | SPEAKING USER SELECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PHAM, LINH K | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18914806 | INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 2417 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18853063 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | BHATNAGAR, ANAND P | 2668 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18843231 | AUDIO PLAYING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LIN, JASON K | 2425 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18843227 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE METHOD AND APPARATUS, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JONES, HEATHER RAE | 2481 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18840063 | VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FABER, DAVID | 2172 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18840060 | PAGE CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE | BURKE, TIONNA M | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18839635 | SERVICE RESPONSE METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | DENNISON, JERRY B | 2409 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18838925 | METHOD FOR DATA MATCHING, READABLE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LIU, SHU | 2417 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18730556 | SPLIT-SCREEN INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL, STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICE | REPSHER III, JOHN T | 2143 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18771350 | INFORMATION INDICATING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHIU, HO T | 2443 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18728034 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK DOMAIN NAME | BARKER, TODD L | 2449 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18756705 | MULTIMEDIA PLAYING METHOD AND DEVICE | VU, THANH T | 2179 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18723057 | IMMERSION-TYPE LIQUID-COOLING DEVICE AND IMMERSION-TYPE LIQUID-COOLING SYSTEM | MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR | 2835 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18720580 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN | 3688 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18716830 | SCREEN PROJECTION METHOD, SCREEN PROJECTION DEVICE, SCREEN PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE, SCREEN PROJECTION SYSTEM AND MEDIUM | MONTOYA, OSCHTA I | 2421 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18715071 | EFFECT DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, YI | 2619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18714072 | PAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE | HURUY, FEVEN HABTEMARIAM | 2179 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18713602 | IMAGE CROPPING METHOD AND APPARATUS, MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | CROCKETT, JOSHUA BRIGHAM | 2661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18712188 | IMAGE DRAWING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SUN, HAI TAO | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18711837 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18708887 | DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18657496 | LABEL DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, TUAN S | 2179 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18707033 | VIRTUAL OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE MEDIUM | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18702187 | INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HUYNH, LINDA TANG | 2172 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18690232 | METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICE OF VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE ALLOCATION | SWIFT, CHARLES M | 2196 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18435973 | METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR OBJECT DRAGGING | TILLERY, RASHAWN N | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18294761 | METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PERMISSION SYNCHRONIZATION | SHAW, PETER C | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18291736 | METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING PROMPT INFORMATION | LE, RONG | 2421 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18398563 | PRODUCT REVIEW METHOD, APPARATUS AND CLIENT TERMINAL | MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18573781 | METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROTOCOL STACK DATA TRANSMISSION BASED ON LINUX SYSTEM | NGUYEN, BRANDON A | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18573325 | METHOD OF SWITCHING AUDIO INPUT AND OUTPUT APPLIED TO LIVE STREAMING, AND LIVE STREAMING DEVICE | BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18545862 | MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | ZHAO, DAQUAN | 2484 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18571005 | INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | TRAN, TUYETLIEN T | 2179 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18569970 | CO-HOSTING SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | COONEY, ADAM A | 2458 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18569893 | MULTIMEDIA DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND DEVICE | WAI, ERIC CHARLES | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18564732 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR SHOWING SEARCH RESULTS | MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO | 2159 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18562926 | LIVE-STREAMING VIDEO STREAM PLAYING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PARRA, OMAR S | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18500887 | INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MITIKU, BERHANU | 2156 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18555427 | INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | PHAM, LINH K | 2174 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18283700 | INSTRUCTION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3691 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18551089 | INTERACTION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | TELAN, MICHAEL R | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18547537 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18264899 | VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TRAN, TUYETLIEN T | 2179 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18275778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING LIGHTING IMAGE, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | BADER, ROBERT N. | 2611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18263518 | VIDEO SYNTHESIS METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PARK, SUNGHYOUN | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBeijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd. has 65 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 44 art units and 61 examiners.
Linh K Pham has the most, with 2 of Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
