Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.

41 pending office actions • 24 art units • 41 examiners • 0 of 41 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 80 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

41
Total Pending OAs
25
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
6
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (6)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.

18
Hard (44%)
22
Medium (54%)
1
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (5%)
§101 + other11 (27%)
§103 only20 (49%)
§102 only2 (5%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
21
Information Tech
51% of docket
2
Communications
5% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
10% of docket
14
Business / Other
34% 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.

410 h
Manual time on pending OAs
82 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
144 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KUDDUS, DANIEL A 1 71.3% +43.3%
KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD 1 40.1% +24.6%
MAMO, ELIAS 1 82.9% +5.8%
ZHAO, DON GORDON 1 87.4% +16.2%
BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 1
MOORTHY, ARAVIND K 1 84.4% +12.2%
CURRAN, J MITCHELL 1 63.4% +33.0%
MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 1 50.0% +19.5%
BURGESS, GLENTON B 1 25.8% +8.2%
CASTRO, ALFONSO 1 50.8% +19.1%

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
19093749 PACKET PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS APPLIED TO DPU, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM MAMO, ELIAS
19075562 NETWORK COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE OF INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE MOORTHY, ARAVIND K

Hard Cases (19)

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
18593321 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S 100d overdue
18941151 DATA TASK MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE PRASAD, NANCY N 43d overdue
18476004 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING SIMULATION FOR HARDWARE OFFLOADING SYSTEMS TOLENTINO, RODERICK 10d overdue
19013184 E-COMMERCE INCENTIVE TASK SCREENING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 21d
18732412 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DATA REQUEST PROCESSING ADAMS, CHARLES D 33d
18939752 METHOD FOR EVALUATING COST OF CLUSTER DATA RESOURCE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE BROWN, SARA GRACE 41d
18976237 SPACE-OPTIMIZED FOREST FOR GRAPH DATABASES MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 79d
19306345 DATA PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON KEY-VALUE DATABASE, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND KEY-VALUE DATABASE SYSTEM KUDDUS, DANIEL A

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19060999 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA RETRIEVAL CURRAN, J MITCHELL 46d overdue
19058312 METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DEDUPLICATION OF OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEM MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 35d
18997937 VIDEO GENERATING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CASTRO, ALFONSO 41d
19306345 DATA PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON KEY-VALUE DATABASE, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND KEY-VALUE DATABASE SYSTEM KUDDUS, DANIEL A
19256064 INTERACTION WITH DIGITAL ASSISTANT KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD
19088943 SECURITY PROTECTION METHOD FOR MODEL SERVICE AND RELATED DEVICE ZHAO, DON GORDON
19075562 NETWORK COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE OF INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE MOORTHY, ARAVIND K

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2154 3
2163 2
2169 1
2159 1
2421 1
3621 1
2457 1
3624 1
3625 1
2449 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19306345 DATA PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON KEY-VALUE DATABASE, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND KEY-VALUE DATABASE SYSTEM KUDDUS, DANIEL A 2154 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2025
19256064 INTERACTION WITH DIGITAL ASSISTANT KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2025
19093749 PACKET PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS APPLIED TO DPU, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM MAMO, ELIAS §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2025
19088943 SECURITY PROTECTION METHOD FOR MODEL SERVICE AND RELATED DEVICE ZHAO, DON GORDON §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 24, 2025
19088883 SECURITY PROTECTION METHOD FOR DRAWING FILE, APPARATUS, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 24, 2025
19075562 NETWORK COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE OF INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE MOORTHY, ARAVIND K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 10, 2025
19060999 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA RETRIEVAL CURRAN, J MITCHELL 2169 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2025
19058312 METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DEDUPLICATION OF OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEM MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Feb 20, 2025
19056004 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD BASED ON CLOUD NETWORK, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BURGESS, GLENTON B §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 18, 2025
18997937 VIDEO GENERATING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CASTRO, ALFONSO 2421 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jan 23, 2025
19013184 E-COMMERCE INCENTIVE TASK SCREENING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 3621 §101§112 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jan 08, 2025
18983368 FILE STORAGE METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 17, 2024
18981168 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CHIN, MICHELLE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18976237 SPACE-OPTIMIZED FOREST FOR GRAPH DATABASES MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 2163 §101 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Dec 10, 2024
18949369 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUSES, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM MIAN, MOHAMMAD YOU A 2457 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2024
18941151 DATA TASK MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE PRASAD, NANCY N 3624 §101§103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2024
18939752 METHOD FOR EVALUATING COST OF CLUSTER DATA RESOURCE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE BROWN, SARA GRACE 3625 §101 Final Rejection 41d Pending Nov 07, 2024
18909399 NETWORK MESSAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 08, 2024
18906492 METHOD FOR RETRANSMISSION DETECTION OF DATA PACKET AND DEVICE CHERY, DADY §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2024
18850561 MODEL TRAINING METHOD, WATERMARK RESTORATION METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE PATEL, JAYESH A §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 25, 2024
18885407 DATA PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 2166 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Sep 13, 2024
18883999 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM BLACK, LINH 2163 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 12, 2024
18812834 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUERYING LOG INFORMATION, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 2156 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2024
18811594 IMAGE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HOPE, DARRIN §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18797307 DATABASE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 2496 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2024
18793730 DEVICE HOTPLUG METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ANYA, CHARLES E §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 02, 2024
18793741 MEMORY ALLOCATING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM PHAM, KAITLYN HUNG 2133 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Aug 02, 2024
18784910 METHOD FOR ALLOCATING MEMORY, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM BELKHAYAT, ZAKARIA MOHAMMED 2139 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jul 25, 2024
18779981 DATABASE PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, EQUIPMENT AND MEDIUM BECHTEL, KEVIN M 2491 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2024
18729493 CLOUD SERVICE DEPLOYMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM NIGATU, BEZA DIRESSA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2024
18728800 TASK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2024
18732412 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DATA REQUEST PROCESSING ADAMS, CHARLES D 2154 §103§112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 03, 2024
18671690 METHOD FOR SAMPLE GENERATION, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM LE, HUNG D 2171 §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18671735 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WATERMARK EMBEDDING AND EXTRACTION COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 2675 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18660871 METHOD FOR WATERMARK EXTRACTION, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM CONNER, SEAN M 2663 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 10, 2024
18635503 DATABASE-BASED DATA SHARD PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE LE, MIRANDA 2153 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 15, 2024
18621635 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM GHAFFARI, ABU Z §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2024
18593321 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S 3623 §101§103 Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18476004 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING SIMULATION FOR HARDWARE OFFLOADING SYSTEMS TOLENTINO, RODERICK 2439 §101§103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2023
18475912 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR END-TO-END EMULATION OF HARDWARE OFFLOADING OPERATION WU, BENJAMIN C 2195 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18450859 DATA PROCESSING METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023

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