Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.

72 pending office actions • 45 art units • 70 examiners • 0 of 72 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 169 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

72
Total Pending OAs
33
Non-Final OAs
24
Final Rejections
15
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

13
Overdue
2
Due this week
7
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

26
Hard (36%)
46
Medium (64%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (6%)
§101 + other11 (15%)
§103 only45 (62%)
§102 only1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (15%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
40
Information Tech
56% of docket
12
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
16
Business / Other
22% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

720 h
Manual time on pending OAs
144 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
252 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PHAM, LINH K 2 80.8% +28.9%
TRAN, TUYETLIEN T 2 67.9% +33.4%
STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 1 28.4% +21.4%
CHOI, YUK TING 1 71.4% +36.4%
NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 1 77.5% +22.5%
SCHNURR, JOHN R 1 72.1% +10.7%
CHEN, FRANK S 1 82.4% +8.6%
BRIER, JEFFERY A 1 76.9% +8.7%
DOSHI, AKSHAY 1 63.7% +40.4%
BARBOZA, MARCUS ALEXANDER 1

Quick Wins (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18869132 GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL EFFECT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CHEN, FRANK S
18920315 SPEAKING USER SELECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PHAM, LINH K
18555427 INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PHAM, LINH K

Hard Cases (26)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18043522 HOT WORD EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM PARK, CHAN S 147d overdue
18557261 CONTENT TYPESETTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FABER, DAVID 35d overdue
18720580 INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 9d overdue
18574686 MEDIA COLLECTION GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 5d
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
18256591 ABNORMAL REQUEST PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM SEYE, ABDOU K 60d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18864220 VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD DOSHI, AKSHAY 44d 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
19234675 VIRTUAL GIFT DISPLAY METHOD, SERVER, AND TARGET RECEIVING END STROUD, CHRISTOPHER
18848882 NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NARRAMORE, BLAKE I
19170004 INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON VIDEO, DEVICE AND MEDIUM SCHNURR, JOHN R
18920315 SPEAKING USER SELECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PHAM, LINH K
18571005 INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM TRAN, TUYETLIEN T

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2179 5
2171 3
2174 3
2425 2
2426 2
2172 2
2164 1
2422 1
2447 1
2481 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19234675 VIRTUAL GIFT DISPLAY METHOD, SERVER, AND TARGET RECEIVING END STROUD, CHRISTOPHER §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 11, 2025
19196236 SEARCH TRIGGERING WITH MEDIA CONTENT HAVING DIFFERENT DURATIONS CHOI, YUK TING 2164 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending May 01, 2025
18848882 NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NARRAMORE, BLAKE I §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 16, 2025
19170004 INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON VIDEO, DEVICE AND MEDIUM SCHNURR, JOHN R 2425 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Apr 03, 2025
18869132 GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL EFFECT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CHEN, FRANK S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 25, 2024
18704432 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT BRIER, JEFFERY A §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2024
18864220 VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD DOSHI, AKSHAY 2422 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2024
18862103 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO EDITING, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM BARBOZA, MARCUS ALEXANDER §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18861171 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EDITING AUDIO HONG, STEPHEN S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 28, 2024
18920315 SPEAKING USER SELECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PHAM, LINH K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2024
18916168 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REPOSTING HUANG, KAYLEE J 2447 §103§112Other Final Rejection Pending Oct 15, 2024
18914806 INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM MOREAU, AUSTIN J §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 14, 2024
18843227 INFORMATION EXCHANGE METHOD AND APPARATUS, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM JONES, HEATHER RAE 2481 §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 30, 2024
18814337 INTERACTION METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS, AND NON-VOLATILE COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM MIAH, RAZU A 2441 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 23, 2024
18784542 VIDEO PLAYING SETTING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM YI, DAVID 2126 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2024
18774034 CHARACTER DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM SMITH, BENJAMIN J §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2024
18771350 INFORMATION INDICATING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM SHIU, HO T 2443 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2024
18573273 COMMODITY INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND CLIENT CHAE, KYU 2426 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 10, 2024
18725480 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING CALL TOPOLOGY JEON, JAE UK §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18725344 IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM LE, JOHNNY TRAN 2614 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 28, 2024
18725722 VIDEO SUPER-RESOLUTION METHOD AND DEVICE YIP, KENT 2681 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18756705 MULTIMEDIA PLAYING METHOD AND DEVICE VU, THANH T 2179 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2024
18721143 EVENT BUS MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND MEDIUM KHATRI, ANIL §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2024
18720580 INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §101§103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18282743 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING CONDITIONAL COMPILATION, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2024
18715071 EFFECT DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WANG, YI 2619 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 30, 2024
18662656 IMAGE CROPPING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM YANG, YI 2616 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2024
18707033 VIRTUAL OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE MEDIUM MERCADO, GABRIEL S 2171 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 02, 2024
18699573 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA HOLLAND, JENEE LAUREN 2469 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 08, 2024
18690232 METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICE OF VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SWIFT, CHARLES M §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2024
18435760 PREVIEWING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECT APPLICATION, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CHEN, YU 2613 §103Other Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Feb 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
18398563 PRODUCT REVIEW METHOD, APPARATUS AND CLIENT TERMINAL MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J 3629 §101 Final Rejection 12d Pending Dec 28, 2023
18574686 MEDIA COLLECTION GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 2172 §102§103Other Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18573991 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WEBPAGE RENDERING TSUI, WILSON W 2199 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
18572935 METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR TRAINING FEDERATED LEARNING MODEL BYCER, ERIC J §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 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
18571610 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM FOR DATA TRANSMISSION HAN, CLEMENCE S 2414 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2023
18571131 DATA SERVICE METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RELATED PRODUCT RIFKIN, BEN M §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 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
18567730 METHOD FOR SIMULATING OBJECT MOTION BY MEANS OF PARTICLES AND DEVICE AHN, CHRISTINE YERA 2615 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2023
18566927 VERTICAL FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM MCINTOSH, ANDREW T §101§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 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
18500887 INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM MITIKU, BERHANU 2156 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 02, 2023
18557704 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR ACCURATELY CONVERTING PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS TO ELECTRONIC TEXT BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R 2151 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 27, 2023
18557261 CONTENT TYPESETTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FABER, DAVID 2172 §101§112 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18555427 INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PHAM, LINH K 2174 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 13, 2023
18554380 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING ANDROID RUNNING ENVIRONMENT ANYA, CHARLES E 2194 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 06, 2023
18552347 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 25, 2023
18283700 INSTRUCTION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS KAZIMI, HANI M 3691 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 22, 2023
18552026 AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM BADAWI, ANGIE M 2179 §103 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
18263438 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CAI, PHUONG HAU 2673 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2023
18274659 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE BRIGHTNESS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM ROBERTS, RACHEL L 2674 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 27, 2023
18256591 ABNORMAL REQUEST PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM SEYE, ABDOU K 2198 §101§103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Jun 08, 2023
18254426 REAL TIME CHAT SYSTEM AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM JAKOVAC, RYAN J 2445 §103§112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending May 25, 2023
18319543 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REPOSTING PADUA, NICO LAUREN 3626 §101 Final Rejection Pending May 18, 2023
18034631 IMAGE DISTORTION EVALUATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER DEVICE RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Apr 28, 2023
18043875 PLAYBACK CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PAN, PHOEBE X 2179 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
18043522 HOT WORD EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM PARK, CHAN S 2669 §103§112 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18020820 VOLUME RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM TSAI, JAMES T 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18012205 ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2022
18077783 CONSTRAINTS ON INTRA BLOCK COPY USING NON-ADJACENT NEIGHBORING BLOCKS ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E 2487 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2022
18009227 VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 2425 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Dec 08, 2022
18074898 INTRA BLOCK COPY USING NON-ADJACENT NEIGHBORING BLOCKS NAVAS JR, EDEMIO 2483 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Dec 05, 2022
17926324 TEXT DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 18, 2022
17726160 COMMENT SHARING METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE VU, KIEU D 2171 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 21, 2022
17761504 LIST FLOW IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM LU, HWEI-MIN 2142 §103§112 Final Rejection 6d Pending Mar 17, 2022

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