Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
16 pending office actions • 16 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 151 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ciena Corporation has 16 pending office actions in Networking & Security. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating complete distribution across the available examination assignments in this profile.
BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner-specific concentration appears, so portfolio management should emphasize coordinated technical guidance rather than reliance on a recurring examiner relationship.
The separate art-unit assignments make claim language and prior-art treatment especially important to review at the individual matter level. Counsel can still standardize internal practices for network architecture, security concepts, and disclosure support, but responses should remain tailored to each examination record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 8 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 1 | 64.8% | +32.4% |
| SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 76.4% | +21.3% |
| HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 1 | 9.7% | +7.0% |
| CHOUDHRY, SAMINA F | 1 | 83.5% | +16.7% |
| RAHLL, JERRY T | 1 | 89.9% | +8.3% |
| OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 1 | 75.0% | +15.7% |
| NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 1 | 67.5% | +37.9% |
| KHANAL, SANDARVA | 1 | 68.3% | +13.0% |
| CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | 1 | 85.7% | +29.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809551 | Modular network element architecture | CHOUDHRY, SAMINA F | — |
| 18651241 | Section-based chunking technique for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Large Language Models (LLMs) | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19025184 | Systems and Methods for Tracking, Predicting, and Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats in Networks | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3d overdue |
| 18800509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTIPLE DOMAIN AUTOMATIC NEXT-HOP RESOLUTION (ANR) IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING NETWORKS | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 62d |
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 19106842 | Distribution of SRv6 modes of operation via routing protocols | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| 18808547 | STRESS-MODIFYING FORMATIONS FOR POLARIZATION CONTROL | RAHLL, JERRY T | — |
| 18638832 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DUPLICATE WORKLOADS AND OUTPUTS IN RESPECT OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM GRAPHS | BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | — |
| 18526129 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SHORT STRUCTURES FOR BACKDRILL VALIDATION | KIK, PHALLAKA | — |
| 18233929 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING SHELF AND CIRCUIT CARD ASSEMBLIES | BUI, HUNG S | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTIPLE DOMAIN AUTOMATIC NEXT-HOP RESOLUTION (ANR) IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING NETWORKS | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 62d |
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 19106842 | Distribution of SRv6 modes of operation via routing protocols | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| 18809551 | Modular network element architecture | CHOUDHRY, SAMINA F | — |
| 18802495 | USING UNDERLAY TRANSPORT LINK PROTECTION TO PROTECT POINT TO MULTIPOINT TREES | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | — |
| 18751777 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEVERAGING A DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP) RELAY AGENT (RA) TO OBTAIN ZERO-TOUCH PROVISIONING (ZTP) FAILURE INFORMATION | KHANAL, SANDARVA | — |
| 18638832 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DUPLICATE WORKLOADS AND OUTPUTS IN RESPECT OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM GRAPHS | BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2445 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| 2462 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2472 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2453 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19089335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING OBJECTS WITH A COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19106842 | Distribution of SRv6 modes of operation via routing protocols | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 2445 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19025184 | Systems and Methods for Tracking, Predicting, and Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats in Networks | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18809551 | Modular network element architecture | CHOUDHRY, SAMINA F | 2462 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18808547 | STRESS-MODIFYING FORMATIONS FOR POLARIZATION CONTROL | RAHLL, JERRY T | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18802495 | USING UNDERLAY TRANSPORT LINK PROTECTION TO PROTECT POINT TO MULTIPOINT TREES | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 2472 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18800509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTIPLE DOMAIN AUTOMATIC NEXT-HOP RESOLUTION (ANR) IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING NETWORKS | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 2447 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18751777 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEVERAGING A DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP) RELAY AGENT (RA) TO OBTAIN ZERO-TOUCH PROVISIONING (ZTP) FAILURE INFORMATION | KHANAL, SANDARVA | 2453 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18651241 | Section-based chunking technique for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Large Language Models (LLMs) | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18638832 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DUPLICATE WORKLOADS AND OUTPUTS IN RESPECT OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM GRAPHS | BLAIR, APRIL YING SHAN | 2196 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18526129 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SHORT STRUCTURES FOR BACKDRILL VALIDATION | KIK, PHALLAKA | 2851 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18549666 | Integrated C+L band ROADM architecture | LI, SHI K | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18233929 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING SHELF AND CIRCUIT CARD ASSEMBLIES | BUI, HUNG S | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18301699 | Signaling Service SID Transposition Capability in SRv6 Networks | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 2411 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 17880400 | Compressing network data using Deep Neural Network (DNN) deployment | BARRETT, RYAN S | 2148 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
| 17382723 | Multi-Level Time Series Forecaster | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 2124 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialCiena Corporation has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 16 art units and 16 examiners.
Rebecca Carole Bryant has the most, with 1 of Ciena Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
