Technology area: Networking & Security
357 pending office actions • 140 art units • 306 examiners • 28 of 357 (8%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1,135 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cisco Technology Inc. has 363 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The docket spans 309 examiners and 140 art units, showing extensive distribution across examination personnel and technical groups. The scale requires centralized docket governance, while the art-unit spread supports specialized review of recurring prosecution issues.
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R is the busiest examiner, with 4 pending actions. That examiner is a limited concentration point within the full portfolio. Counsel should coordinate those matters where appropriate, but rely primarily on systematic monitoring, consistent claim strategy, and communication across the wider examiner and art-unit network.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 93 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. 93 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 | 11 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 49 (14%) |
| §103 only | 182 (51%) |
| §102 only | 16 (4%) |
| §112 only | 9 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 10 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 72 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 4 | 85.4% | +14.3% |
| BAYARD, DJENANE M | 4 | 83.6% | +1.2% |
| WOOLCOCK, MADHU | 3 | 56.5% | +72.8% |
| MINCEY, JERMAINE A | 3 | 56.9% | +41.3% |
| KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 3 | 69.0% | +22.5% |
| ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD | 3 | 74.1% | +30.4% |
| MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 3 | 67.6% | +27.4% |
| ALRIYASHI, ABDULKADER MOHAMED | 3 | 67.5% | +3.4% |
| MEKY, MOUSTAFA M | 2 | 93.5% | +5.2% |
| ZHU, ZHIMEI | 2 | 77.8% | +36.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19262031 | Systems and Methods for Enforcement Readiness Verification | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 19248267 | NON-DISRUPTIVE TRADING OF BUFFERS BETWEEN PORTS OR PORT VIRTUAL LANES OF A CREDITED NETWORK | MEKY, MOUSTAFA M | — |
| 19224443 | VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION PROOF OF TRANSIT | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 19184212 | CLOUD NATIVE OBSERVABILITY MIGRATION AND ASSESSMENT | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 18954775 | Systems and Methods for Using Signed Device Information to Authenticate a User | BAYARD, DJENANE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18324630 | SPLICING OPTICAL FIBERS TO PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | CALEY, MICHAEL H | 146d overdue |
| 18582143 | Systems and Methods for Android Localhost Listener to Origin Bind Request to Stop Attacker-in-the-Middle (AITM) Attacks | CHANG, TOM Y | 49d overdue |
| 18333658 | FAST SESSION TRANSFER BETWEEN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND 5G NETWORK | HUA, QUAN M | 32d overdue |
| 18319797 | PEER-TO-PEER COORDINATED TARGET WAKE TIME | GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 23d overdue |
| 18151876 | Applying Attestation Tokens to Multicast Routing Protocols | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 17d overdue |
| 18600286 | CHANNEL USAGE CONTROL FOR NON-WIFI COMMUNICATIONS | CHOWDHURY, HARUN UR R | 9d overdue |
| 18940829 | UTILIZING APPLICATION CONFIGURATIONS AND STATE FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT | FIORILLO, JAMES N | 8d overdue |
| 18101620 | ADAPTIVELY CONFIGURING RESOURCES IN FEDERATED LEARNING SYSTEMS | NYE, LOUIS CHRISTOPHER | 5d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18610354 | NETWORK SECURITY PREDICTION SYSTEM BASED ON BEHAVIORAL GRAPHS | ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD | 7d |
| 18758001 | MULTI-TIER OPTIMIZED INGRESS REPLICATION FOR ETHERNET VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS | WOOLCOCK, MADHU | 12d |
| 18828293 | Automating a Software-Defined Wide Area Network Policy for Internet of Things End Points | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 29d |
| 18807189 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF PROBE AND PATH TRACING MODES | WOOLCOCK, MADHU | 33d |
| 19262031 | Systems and Methods for Enforcement Readiness Verification | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 19247861 | GENERATING PLAYBOOK RUN STATISTICS FOR PLAYBOOKS EXECUTED BY AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY OPERATIONS APPLICATION | ZHU, ZHIMEI | — |
| 19224443 | VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION PROOF OF TRANSIT | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 19195565 | INTER-COMPATIBLE FORWARDING MODES IN NETWORK FABRIC OVERLAYS | WOOLCOCK, MADHU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2431 | 11 |
| 2458 | 10 |
| 2444 | 10 |
| 2453 | 8 |
| 2447 | 8 |
| 2451 | 8 |
| 2443 | 8 |
| 2454 | 7 |
| 2434 | 6 |
| 2659 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19323741 | GENERATIVE AI-ASSISTED CONFIGURATION OF APPLICATION ANALYTICS FEATURES | PATEL, KAMINI B | 2114 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19322177 | Systems and Methods for Efficient Grid-Estimation of Spherical Geo-Probability Function | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | 2159 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19308422 | MULTI-CLOUD SITE-SITE SECURE CONNECTIVITY AS A SERVICE | MEKY, MOUSTAFA M | 2457 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 19299950 | AUTOMATED ATTACK CHAIN FOLLOWING BY A THREAT ANALYSIS PLATFORM | NGUYEN, TRONG H | 2436 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19281610 | ROTATING A MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) ADDRESS OF AN ACCESS POINT (AP) | TSE, YOUNG TOI | 2631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2025 |
| 19268826 | PRIORITIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL CHANNELS WITHIN MULTIPLEXED STREAMS FOR ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS (ZTNA) | HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT | 2458 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19264366 | TRIGGERING STAGGERED MULTI-USER UPLINK IN AMBIENT POWER DEVICE GROUP | SINGH, AMNEET | 2633 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19262031 | Systems and Methods for Enforcement Readiness Verification | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 2453 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19257930 | AUTOTUNING OPTIMAL KEEPALIVE INTERVALS FOR SECURE SESSIONS | MURPHY, JOSEPH B | 2435 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19254576 | DECENTRALIZED INTERNET PROTOCOL SECURITY KEY NEGOTIATION | CHAO, MICHAEL W | 2431 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19255576 | INTERNET PROTOCOL SECURITY AND SECURITY PARAMETER INDEX SUMMARIZATION AND DATA ROUTING | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 2431 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19253598 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE REPRESENTING EVENT STREAMS | ARJOMANDI, NOOSHA | 2166 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19250561 | INTELLIGENT CHANGE WINDOW PLANNER | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 2447 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19248267 | NON-DISRUPTIVE TRADING OF BUFFERS BETWEEN PORTS OR PORT VIRTUAL LANES OF A CREDITED NETWORK | MEKY, MOUSTAFA M | 2447 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19247861 | GENERATING PLAYBOOK RUN STATISTICS FOR PLAYBOOKS EXECUTED BY AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY OPERATIONS APPLICATION | ZHU, ZHIMEI | 2431 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19240566 | System and Method for EVPN Multicast Optimization for Source Handling | DABIPI, DIXON F | 2451 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19240635 | HIGH BANDWIDTH ENCRYPTION ENGINES IN A MULTIPATHING IP NETWORK | RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR | 2498 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19237952 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED ACCESS IN 5G | TRAN, TRI MINH | 2432 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19233959 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING DEFENSE CONTROLLER FOR PROMPT AND ANSWER INSPECTION | RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR | 2434 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19233704 | SELECTING CELL-BASED CONTEXTUAL OPTIONS | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 2153 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19229965 | PROVIDING OPTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH A DATA SUMMARY VIEW | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 2153 | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19224443 | VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION PROOF OF TRANSIT | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 2453 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19215501 | SERVICE OPTIMIZATION IN NETWORKS AND CLOUD INTERCONNECTS | NAJI, YOUNES | 2445 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19214388 | BI-DIRECTIONAL POWER OVER ETHERNET FOR DIGITAL BUILDING APPLICATIONS | PRIFTI, AUREL | 2175 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19209974 | BLOCKING AND ALERTING WITH DOMAIN FRONTING INTELLIGENCE | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19209616 | Standardized Power Measurements with Increased Accuracy | JEAN GILLES, JUDE | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19206800 | Multi-Modal Models for Detecting Malicious Emails | TO, BAOTRAN N | 2435 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19205644 | DYNAMIC TRANSACTION-AWARE WEB APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION USING CALL INTERCEPTS | SONG, HEE K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19205046 | CONTROL FLOW DIRECTED GRAPH FOR USE WITH PROGRAM DISASSEMBLER | KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 2408 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19203042 | GENERATING ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ATTRIBUTES ASSOCIATED WITH INCIDENTS USED FOR INCIDENT RESPONSE | ZHANG, SHIRLEY X | 2431 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19201798 | PROVIDING GROUPS OF EVENTS TO A MESSAGE BUS BASED ON SIZE | WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | 2156 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19198896 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING ACCESS TO CLOUD RESOURCES USING PREFERENTIAL LOCALIZATION | NGUYEN, PHUOC H | 2451 | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19195565 | INTER-COMPATIBLE FORWARDING MODES IN NETWORK FABRIC OVERLAYS | WOOLCOCK, MADHU | 2451 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19192051 | REPLICATING FILES GENERATED DURING PROCESSING | NGUYEN, MERILYN P | 2153 | DP | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19192327 | SCALABLE FEDERATED DISTRIBUTED SECURITY ANALYTICS | SCOTT, RANDY A | 2439 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19186306 | NETWORK WITH HIGH PRIORITY ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS | HAILU, TESHOME | 2434 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19184212 | CLOUD NATIVE OBSERVABILITY MIGRATION AND ASSESSMENT | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 2453 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19184991 | SEARCH RESULT REPLICATION MANAGEMENT IN A SEARCH HEAD CLUSTER | MINCEY, JERMAINE A | 2159 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19176101 | ASSOCIATION IDENTIFIER ASSIGNMENT FOR PRIVACY ENHANCEMENT STATIONS | KIM, HEE SOO | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19097761 | VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORK DISCOVERY AND ASSIGNMENT FOR UNAUTHENTICATED OR SLEEPING ENDPOINTS | SHEPPERD, ERIC W | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19095603 | KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR SCALABLE JOINT THREAT HUNTING, DETECTION, AND FORENSICS FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19094733 | Generation Of Graph-Based Dense Representations Of Events Of A Nodal Graph Through Deployment Of A Neural Network | MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN | 2159 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19085785 | Systems and Methods to Dynamically Reprovision Network Devices in a Predefined Area | NGUYEN, QUANG N | 2453 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19082060 | IMPLEMENTING CONFIGURATION CHANGES USING LANGUAGE MODELS | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 2659 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19081996 | MITIGATING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES USING LANGUAGE MODELS | DOLLY, KENDALL LYNN | 2436 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19076410 | EXECUTING MODULAR ALERTS AND ASSOCIATED SECURITY ACTIONS | ZHU, ZHIMEI | 2495 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19073934 | MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATED SERVICE PERIODS | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19073659 | CONDUCTING COMMUNICATION SESSIONS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION OF USER INTERACTION | ESPINAS, KYLENINO TAGALOG | 2655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19074196 | Systems and Methods of Inserting Idles Within Packets to Reduce Latency | NGUYEN, THIEN DANG | 2111 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19068675 | CHART CREATION BASED ON A DATA PROCESSING PACKAGE | RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J | 2156 | §103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
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