Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

72 pending office actions • 52 art units • 70 examiners • 0 of 72 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 175 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

72
Total Pending OAs
38
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
19
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 71 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

39
Overdue
3
Due this week
20
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 71 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (39)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (20)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (4)

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.

1
Hard (1%)
65
Medium (90%)
5
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§103 only60 (83%)
§102 only4 (6%)
§112 only5 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
No statute on record1 (1%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
43
Information Tech
60% of docket
24
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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
TELAN, MICHAEL R 2 42.5% +26.8%
LE, RONG 2 68.0% +29.8%
CHOI, YUK TING 1 71.5% +36.9%
DOSHI, AKSHAY 1 63.8% +39.8%
CHIN, MICHELLE 1 85.2% +11.5%
LIN, JASON K 1 48.7% +34.6%
ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH 1 89.4% +7.5%
YI, DAVID 1 68.0% +65.7%
BARKER, TODD L 1 75.5% +23.4%
ALATA, YASSIN 1 66.5% +14.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18888794 IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHIN, MICHELLE 22d
18789194 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH 26d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18398563 PRODUCT REVIEW METHOD, APPARATUS AND CLIENT TERMINAL MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J 12d

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18769805 VIDEO DISPLAY AND INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM TELAN, MICHAEL R 120d overdue
18724571 VIEW ANGLE SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT ALATA, YASSIN 66d overdue
18656020 VIDEO PUSHING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON VIDEO SEARCH, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE LE, RONG 66d overdue
18864220 VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD DOSHI, AKSHAY 44d overdue
18784542 VIDEO PLAYING SETTING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM YI, DAVID 43d overdue
18291736 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING PROMPT INFORMATION LE, RONG 37d overdue
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2611 5
2421 4
2426 3
2172 3
2612 3
2614 2
2425 2
3688 2
2616 2
2171 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19196236 SEARCH TRIGGERING WITH MEDIA CONTENT HAVING DIFFERENT DURATIONS CHOI, YUK TING 2164 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 01, 2025
18864220 VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD DOSHI, AKSHAY 2422 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2024
18888794 IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHIN, MICHELLE 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 18, 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
18789194 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH 2657 §102 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 30, 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
18769805 VIDEO DISPLAY AND INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM TELAN, MICHAEL R 2426 §103 Non-Final OA 120d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2024
18728034 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK DOMAIN NAME BARKER, TODD L 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 10, 2024
18724571 VIEW ANGLE SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT ALATA, YASSIN 2426 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2024
18720580 INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §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 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2024
18716465 INFORMATION STORAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS BARTLETT, WILLIAM P 2169 §103 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2024
18714047 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WANG, YI 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 28, 2024
18713514 TERMINAL FIRMWARE STARTUP METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM RAHMAN, FAHMIDA 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18712188 IMAGE DRAWING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM SUN, HAI TAO 2616 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 21, 2024
18711837 INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM MERCADO, GABRIEL S 2171 §103 Non-Final OA 47d Pending May 20, 2024
18708887 DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 09, 2024
18708169 VIRTUAL PROP PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM LETT, THOMAS J 2611 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending May 07, 2024
18656020 VIDEO PUSHING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON VIDEO SEARCH, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE LE, RONG 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending May 06, 2024
18706350 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE AHMED, MAHABUB S 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18705136 DATA SECURITY PROTECTION SYSTEM HOLDER, BRADLEY W 2408 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18702187 INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HUYNH, LINDA TANG 2172 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18697957 IMAGE STYLE MIGRATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, IMAGE STYLE MIGRATION MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM CHU, DAVID H 2616 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 02, 2024
18693899 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING CHARACTER STYLE PROFILE IMAGE SHIN, ANDREW 2612 §112 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2024
18693737 VIDEO COVER GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE MEDIUM NGUYEN, KENNY 2171 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2024
18593401 INFORMATION REPLY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT RODRIGUEZ, DANIEL 2178 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18688701 INFORMATION INTERACTION METHOD, DEVICE, APPARATUS AND MEDIUM BASED ON AUGMENTED REALITY GRAY, RYAN M 2611 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18435760 PREVIEWING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECT APPLICATION, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CHEN, YU 2613 §103 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
18292033 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ESTABLISHING A MOBILE DATA NETWORK NG, CHRISTINE Y 2464 §112 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jan 25, 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 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 28, 2023
18574686 MEDIA COLLECTION GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 2172 Other Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18545862 MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM ZHAO, DAQUAN 2484 DPOther Final Rejection 71d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18571544 PRODUCT DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18571129 ANIMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AMIN, JWALANT B 2612 §112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18569970 CO-HOSTING SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM COONEY, ADAM A 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18567724 EFFECT PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE WEI, XIAOMING 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 06, 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 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18510392 CONTENT SEARCH METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 2153 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18560271 APPLICATION ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM SCHMIDT, KARI L 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18288770 VIRTUAL MACHINE HOT-UPGRADING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CHU JOY, JORGE A 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18557261 CONTENT TYPESETTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FABER, DAVID 2172 §112 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18484028 IMAGE SPECIAL EFFECT CONFIGURATION METHOD, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TRAN, CONGVAN 2647 §102 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2023
18551089 INTERACTION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TELAN, MICHAEL R 2426 §103 Non-Final OA 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 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 09, 2023
18276139 WALKTHROUGH VIEW GENERATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM MINKO, DENIS VASILIY 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2023
18275778 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING LIGHTING IMAGE, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM BADER, ROBERT N. 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18263678 HOTFIX METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM BOURZIK, BRAHIM 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18261473 TIMER PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3623 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18256870 NETWORK CONFERENCE CONVERGENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD JONES, CARISSA ANNE 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18256591 ABNORMAL REQUEST PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM SEYE, ABDOU K 2198 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Jun 08, 2023
18254568 VOICE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, SMART TERMINAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MASTERS, KRISTEN MICHELLE 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 25, 2023
18254426 REAL TIME CHAT SYSTEM AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM JAKOVAC, RYAN J 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending May 25, 2023
18320508 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO GENERATION AND DISPLAYING, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM TRUONG, KARL DUC 2614 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18034631 IMAGE DISTORTION EVALUATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER DEVICE RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Apr 28, 2023
18302752 TARGET OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM WONG, WILLIAM 2144 §103 Final Rejection 105d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2023
18029338 STYLED IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, MODEL TRAINING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM TRAN, PHUOC 2668 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Mar 29, 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 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18020820 VOLUME RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM TSAI, JAMES T 2147 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18019425 VIDEO MIRRORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2023
18012610 OPERATION CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THOMAS, ERIC M 3715 §102 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Dec 22, 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 Final Rejection 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
17926416 RESOURCE SHARING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM GRANT, GILBERT MUGARULA 2642 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 18, 2022
17761504 LIST FLOW IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM LU, HWEI-MIN 2142 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Mar 17, 2022
17425579 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING IMAGE HAVING ANIMAL FACE WELLS, HEATH E 2664 §103 Final Rejection 99d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2021

Managing BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.'s Patent Portfolio?

IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.

Start Free Trial

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month