Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

24 pending office actions • 17 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

7
Hard (29%)
15
Medium (62%)
1
Easy (4%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (12%)
§103 only14 (58%)
§112 only1 (4%)
Double-patenting + other1 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (17%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
14
Information Tech
58% of docket
2
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
6
Business / Other
25% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED 2 86.7% +10.9%
LAZARO, DAVID R 1 86.9% +3.6%
GEE, JASON KAI YIN 1 77.7% +23.2%
NGUYEN, ANH 1 78.7% +25.4%
MATAR, AHMAD 1 55.6% +13.9%
TEKLE, DANIEL T 1 63.1% -6.4%
BAROT, BHARAT 1 87.5% +8.0%
WU, STEPHANIE 1 81.9% +16.8%
ERDMAN, CHAD G 1 80.1% +18.1%
BATURAY, ALICIA 1 81.1% +18.1%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18897689 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE DYNAMIC CAPACITY ADJUSTMENTS IN DIFFERENT ANYCAST REGIONS BATURAY, ALICIA 4d overdue
19183189 EDGE-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENABLEMENT LAZARO, DAVID R
18965272 ACCESS POINT OR ROUTER-BASED ROTATION AND EXCHANGE OF DATA ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION KEYS WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED
18960541 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INITIATING PEER-TO-PEER TELECONFERENCING BAROT, BHARAT
18917287 INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)-BASED MICROWELL SOLUTION FOR IRRIGATION ERDMAN, CHAD G

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18807643 RECOMMENDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDGE COMPUTING SERRAO, RANODHI N 11d overdue
18504796 ENHANCED TESTING OF EDGE GATEWAYS WITH A VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION RIVERA, ANIBAL 7d
18545235 Tailored Synthetic Personas with Parameterized Behaviors BULLINGTON, ROBERT P 72d
18990140 AUTOMATED ROBOCALL DETECTION MATAR, AHMAD
18917450 SECURE, DISTRIBUTED RAID STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS WU, STEPHANIE
18227558 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ADAPTIVE CLOUD SERVICES DEFAUW, THAD N
18302283 Digital Marketplace WEINER, ARIELLE E

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18897689 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE DYNAMIC CAPACITY ADJUSTMENTS IN DIFFERENT ANYCAST REGIONS BATURAY, ALICIA 4d overdue
19093845 TELEMETRY HUB WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED
19092897 ENHANCED KEYBOARD, VIDEO, AND MOUSE DONGLE GEE, JASON KAI YIN
19093054 ENHANCED INDICATING AND ENABLING TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL/INTERNET PROTOCOL-BASED NETWORK TRANSPORT LAYER NUMBERS USING AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE NGUYEN, ANH
18990140 AUTOMATED ROBOCALL DETECTION MATAR, AHMAD
18965272 ACCESS POINT OR ROUTER-BASED ROTATION AND EXCHANGE OF DATA ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION KEYS WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED
18917450 SECURE, DISTRIBUTED RAID STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS WU, STEPHANIE
18917287 INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)-BASED MICROWELL SOLUTION FOR IRRIGATION ERDMAN, CHAD G

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2444 2
2481 1
2498 1
2453 1
2133 1
2441 1
2168 1
2693 1
2445 1
2439 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19183189 EDGE-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENABLEMENT LAZARO, DAVID R §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 18, 2025
19093845 TELEMETRY HUB WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2025
19092897 ENHANCED KEYBOARD, VIDEO, AND MOUSE DONGLE GEE, JASON KAI YIN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2025
19093054 ENHANCED INDICATING AND ENABLING TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL/INTERNET PROTOCOL-BASED NETWORK TRANSPORT LAYER NUMBERS USING AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE NGUYEN, ANH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2025
18990140 AUTOMATED ROBOCALL DETECTION MATAR, AHMAD §101DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18970290 IN-VEHICLE DISPLAY OF EXTERIOR IMAGES TO MITIGATE BLIND SPOTS TEKLE, DANIEL T 2481 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Dec 05, 2024
18965272 ACCESS POINT OR ROUTER-BASED ROTATION AND EXCHANGE OF DATA ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION KEYS WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED 2498 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2024
18960541 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INITIATING PEER-TO-PEER TELECONFERENCING BAROT, BHARAT 2453 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18917450 SECURE, DISTRIBUTED RAID STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS WU, STEPHANIE 2133 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18917287 INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)-BASED MICROWELL SOLUTION FOR IRRIGATION ERDMAN, CHAD G §112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18897689 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE DYNAMIC CAPACITY ADJUSTMENTS IN DIFFERENT ANYCAST REGIONS BATURAY, ALICIA 2441 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18886363 SMART NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE TRUONG, LAN DAI T 2444 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 16, 2024
18807643 RECOMMENDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDGE COMPUTING SERRAO, RANODHI N 2444 §102§103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2024
18756625 BLOCK-LEVEL, BIT-MAPPED BINARY DATA ACCESS FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING MOBIN, HASANUL 2168 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2024
18659768 Use of Voice Activity Detection (VAD) or Comfort Noise Generation (CNG) Blank Times or Spaces POPE, KHARYE 2693 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2024
18640625 AUTOMATIC NOISE PROFILE GENERATION BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D 2445 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2024
18630595 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATING VIDEO FEEDS SKWIERAWSKI, PAUL J 2439 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 09, 2024
18416383 DETERMINATION OF DISTRIBUTION OF WI-FI DEVICES WITHIN A LOCAL NETWORK CZEKAJ, DAVID J 2400 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 18, 2024
18545235 Tailored Synthetic Personas with Parameterized Behaviors BULLINGTON, ROBERT P 3715 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection 72d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18545153 Tailored Synthetic Personas with Parameterized Behaviors ZHU, RICHARD Z 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18504796 ENHANCED TESTING OF EDGE GATEWAYS WITH A VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION RIVERA, ANIBAL 2192 §103§112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Nov 08, 2023
18227558 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ADAPTIVE CLOUD SERVICES DEFAUW, THAD N 2412 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2023
18329337 INTELLIGENT FIREWALL USING IDENTIFICATION OF VALID TRAFFIC ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD 2431 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 05, 2023
18302283 Digital Marketplace WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 18, 2023

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