Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
506 pending office actions • 106 art units • 352 examiners • 27 of 506 (5%) have an AI response strategy ready • 748 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. manages a massive portfolio of 503 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 354 distinct examiners and 92 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, HENSON, JAMAAL R, is responsible for 5 pending office actions.
The scale of this portfolio is evident in the 503 pending office actions, which require interaction with 354 distinct examiners. This high number of examiners suggests that the company faces a wide variety of individual examination styles. Furthermore, the 92 distinct art units involved indicate that the company's networking and security technologies are extremely diverse, touching nearly a hundred different specialized groups at the patent office.
Despite the overall volume, the workload is not heavily concentrated with any single individual, as the busiest examiner, HENSON, JAMAAL R, handles only 5 pending office actions. This means the vast majority of the 503 pending actions are spread thin across the 354 distinct examiners. Managing such a large and fragmented portfolio across 92 distinct art units requires a highly coordinated effort to maintain consistency in prosecution across the Networking & Security sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 91 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. 91 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 | 1 (0%) |
| §101 + other | 26 (5%) |
| §103 only | 183 (36%) |
| §102 only | 68 (13%) |
| §112 only | 14 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 213 (42%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSON, JAMAAL R | 5 | 84.3% | +4.5% |
| HAN, CLEMENCE S | 5 | 90.8% | +5.2% |
| SIXTO, NANCY | 4 | 68.8% | +45.5% |
| KIM, HARRY H | 4 | 89.9% | +8.6% |
| MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 4 | 77.6% | +28.2% |
| AMBAYE, MEWALE A | 4 | 91.5% | -1.3% |
| KHAWAR, SAAD | 4 | 85.1% | +8.9% |
| ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | 4 | 76.2% | +11.0% |
| NOWLIN, ERIC | 4 | 88.2% | +6.0% |
| NGUYEN, STEVEN H D | 4 | 79.8% | +11.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923494 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL TRANSMISSION | KHAWAR, SAAD | 44d overdue |
| 18558463 | LINK FAILURE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | AMBAYE, MEWALE A | 13d |
| 18867865 | RESOURCE DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, MULTI-CARRIER SCHEDULING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HAN, CLEMENCE S | — |
| 18863564 | IDENTIFIER CONFIGURATION METHODS AND APPARATUSES, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KIM, HARRY H | — |
| 18854385 | METHODS FOR CONTROLLING RELEASE OF SOURCE SECONDARY NODE, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS | HENSON, JAMAAL R | — |
| 18843286 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS | KHAWAR, SAAD | — |
| 18843136 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING SRSS, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING SRSS, DEVICE, MEDIUM AND PRODUCT | KIM, HARRY H | — |
| 18724550 | FREQUENCY-DOMAIN RESOURCE DETERMINATION METHOD | HAN, CLEMENCE S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576688 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MAPA, MICHAEL Y | 60d overdue |
| 18032311 | CROSS-CARRIER SCHEDULING METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KURIAN, ANDREW SHAJI | 49d overdue |
| 18000785 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING POSITION REFERENCE SIGNAL, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FERRIS, DERRICK W | 25d overdue |
| 18689279 | CELL RESELECTION METHOD AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 16d overdue |
| 18688734 | TIMING ADVANCE VALUE REPORTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 5d overdue |
| 18579688 | MULTI-LINK COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS | BELETE, BERHANU D | 4d overdue |
| 18258538 | INFORMATION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RELATIONSHIP DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | OBAYANJU, OMONIYI | 2d overdue |
| 18248409 | PUCCH RESOURCE DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | NGUYEN, STEVEN H D | 2d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689279 | CELL RESELECTION METHOD AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 16d overdue |
| 18248409 | PUCCH RESOURCE DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | NGUYEN, STEVEN H D | 2d overdue |
| 18688205 | CARRIER DETERMINATION METHOD, CARRIER DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SIXTO, NANCY | 13d |
| 18871054 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING INACTIVE MULTICAST SERVICE AREA, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING INACTIVE MULTICAST SERVICE AREA | SIXTO, NANCY | — |
| 18861470 | SCHEDULING INFORMATION DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | — |
| 18859837 | CSI REPORTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, PRECODING MATRIX DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | — |
| 18856339 | UPLINK TRANSMISSION METHOD/APPARATUS/DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | — |
| 18853960 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR SENSING AND MEASUREMENT REPORTING | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2469 | 22 |
| 2411 | 18 |
| 2465 | 18 |
| 2474 | 17 |
| 2467 | 17 |
| 2472 | 16 |
| 2412 | 14 |
| 2478 | 14 |
| 2463 | 13 |
| 2418 | 13 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19156288 | PERFORMANCE MONITORING METHODS FOR AI MODEL, DEVICES, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SURVILLO, OLEG | 2457 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19137964 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HACKENBERG, RACHEL J | 2454 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 35525264 | Earphone case | MAZZOLA, JILLIAN | 2913 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19189843 | METHOD FOR POSITIONING VEHICLE KEY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | NGUYEN, AN T | 2686 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19114654 | AUTHORIZATION REVOCATION METHODS | AHMED, MAHABUB S | 2434 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18833752 | UE DISCOVERY MESSAGE PROTECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SONG, HOSUK | 2435 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19107104 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE POLICY | ANYAN, BARBARA BURGESS | 2457 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106939 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRECODING MATRIX OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) AND APPARATUS THEREOF | TADESE, BERHANU | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19106912 | METHOD FOR REPORTING TERMINAL PROCESSING CAPABILITY, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND APPARATUSES THEREFOR | DALENCOURT, YVES | 2457 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19057721 | DRUM WASHING MACHINE | KO, JASON Y | 1711 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19103378 | NORTHBOUND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) INVOKING METHOD AND APPARATUS | SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A | 2493 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19102487 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HAJ SAID, FADI | 2444 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19102605 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A 3D POINT CLOUD, ENCODER, DECODER | ADEDIRAN, ABDUL -SAMAD A | 2621 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19102218 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 2444 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19100756 | PATH HANDOVER METHOD, AND APPARATUS | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | 2644 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18996858 | METHOD FOR TIME INFORMATION INTERACTION, AND USER EQUIPMENT | ADDY, ANTHONY S | 2645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996621 | API INVOKER AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 2496 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996462 | POWER HEADROOM REPORTING METHOD BASED ON MULTI-PANEL TRANSMISSION, AND APPARATUS | KINCAID, LESTER G | 2649 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18995733 | PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM) SIGNAL, AND DEVICE | HALLORAN, THOMAS JAMES | 3648 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18995064 | COEFFICIENT INDICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LUGO, DAVID B | 2631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 35523868 | Watch strap | MCLEAN, CHRISTIAN P | 2914 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 35523894 | Watch strap | MCLEAN, CHRISTIAN P | 2914 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | AI Ready | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18993214 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VU, MICHAEL T | 2641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18993281 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ODOM, CURTIS B | 2631 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18992089 | INPUT DETERMINATION METHOD/APPARATUS/DEVICE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MODEL | HU, JINSONG | 2643 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18881266 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2025 |
| 18879199 | AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 2653 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18878541 | METHOD FOR NEGOTIATING PAGING AND APPARATUS | WANG-HURST, KATHY W | 2644 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18877570 | SECURITY PROTECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | REZA, MOHAMMAD W | 2407 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18877685 | INDICATION INFORMATION CONFIGURATION METHODS AND APPARATUSES, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HAJ SAID, FADI | 2444 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18876611 | MOBILITY MANAGEMENT METHODS AND TERMINAL | DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA | 2641 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18875667 | AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MAHMUD, RANA HASSAN | 2644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875564 | METHOD FOR SELECTING AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND EDGE SERVER | AVERY, JEREMIAH L | 2431 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875417 | MODEL MONITORING METHODS AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | PHAM, TUAN | 2649 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18874845 | CELL DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS | BROCKMAN, ANGEL T | 2412 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18874916 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION INFORMATION OF CONTROL RESOURCE | MADU, FAVOUR ONYINYECHI | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18874315 | SECURE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | LIU, ZHE | 2493 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18874311 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A 3D POINT CLOUD, ENCODER, DECODER | ADEDIRAN, ABDUL -SAMAD A | 2621 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18874369 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LEMA LEMOS, LUIS GUILLERMO | 2419 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18874060 | POSITIONING MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18873553 | RESOURCE DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | BROCKMAN, ANGEL T | 2412 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18873468 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MYERS, ERIC A | 2474 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18873684 | REPORTING METHOD AND APPARATUS | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18873088 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) MEASUREMENT | BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18872735 | CAPABILITY REPORTING METHOD, CAPABILITY DETERMINATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GHOWRWAL, OMAR J | 2463 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18872460 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J | 2649 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18872229 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STOPPING POSITIONING TERMINAL, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MIZRAHI, DIANE D | 2647 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18872224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATION STATE | CHU, WUTCHUNG | 2418 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18871988 | INDICATION METHOD FOR FAILURE RECOVERY, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | 2467 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18872029 | FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 2415 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBeijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. has 506 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 106 art units and 352 examiners.
Jamaal R Henson has the most, with 5 of Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.