Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Citrix Systems Inc.

20 pending office actions • 17 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

2
Hard (10%)
18
Medium (90%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (10%)
§103 only18 (90%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
14
Information Tech
70% of docket
3
Communications
15% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
15% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SWIFT, CHARLES M 1 81.2% +22.0%
HU, SELINA ELISA 1 66.7% +100.0%
AHMED, NIZAM U 1 74.9% +24.4%
DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH 1 61.5% +30.0%
PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 1 83.0% +12.7%
GREENE, JOSEPH L 1 63.2% +36.7%
ONAT, UMUT 1 79.6% +28.5%
SONG, HEE K 1 84.8% +19.7%
DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P 1 63.3% +43.9%
RONI, SYED A 1 82.0% +22.2%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17947248 UNICODE BASED ESTIMATION OF TEXT INTELLIGIBILITY PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 11d overdue
17861477 SECURE INPUT METHOD EDITOR FOR VIRTUAL APPLICATIONS SONG, HEE K 2d overdue
17859336 INACTIVITY LOGOFF ADJUSTMENT BASED ON SCHEDULED EVENTS RONI, SYED A 2d overdue
17967388 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCALING CLUSTERS OR APPLICATIONS IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT SWIFT, CHARLES M 29d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17721999 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING WORKFLOWS BY CHAINING MICROAPPS IN A WORKSPACE PLATFORM TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 100d overdue
17658473 RESOURCE RECOMMENDATION SERVICE BASED ON USER EXPERTISE SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 8d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
17933201 INTELLIGENT GENERATION OF THUMBNAIL IMAGES FOR MESSAGING APPLICATIONS DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH 19d overdue
17947248 UNICODE BASED ESTIMATION OF TEXT INTELLIGIBILITY PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 11d overdue
17861477 SECURE INPUT METHOD EDITOR FOR VIRTUAL APPLICATIONS SONG, HEE K 2d overdue
17859336 INACTIVITY LOGOFF ADJUSTMENT BASED ON SCHEDULED EVENTS RONI, SYED A 2d overdue
17860718 EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF INTEGRATIONS FOR EXECUTING SEARCHES USING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P 1d overdue
17870471 MITIGATION OF VISUAL CONFUSION WHILE TRANSFERRING RICH TEXT DATA ACROSS APPLICATIONS WITH INVERSELY COLORED THEMES ONAT, UMUT 21d
17814925 LOCATION-BASED PROXY FOR VIRTUAL MEETING OPTIMIZATION GREENE, JOSEPH L 22d
17936397 AUTO-SCALING HOST MACHINES HU, SELINA ELISA 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2196 3
3625 2
2193 1
2461 1
2677 1
2655 1
2443 1
2194 1
2497 1
2166 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
17967388 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCALING CLUSTERS OR APPLICATIONS IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT SWIFT, CHARLES M 2196 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Oct 17, 2022
17936397 AUTO-SCALING HOST MACHINES HU, SELINA ELISA 2193 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17954911 ADAPTIVE SCALING OF BUFFERS FOR COMMUNICATION SESSIONS AHMED, NIZAM U 2461 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Sep 28, 2022
17933201 INTELLIGENT GENERATION OF THUMBNAIL IMAGES FOR MESSAGING APPLICATIONS DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH 2677 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2022
17947248 UNICODE BASED ESTIMATION OF TEXT INTELLIGIBILITY PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 2655 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2022
17814925 LOCATION-BASED PROXY FOR VIRTUAL MEETING OPTIMIZATION GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jul 26, 2022
17870471 MITIGATION OF VISUAL CONFUSION WHILE TRANSFERRING RICH TEXT DATA ACROSS APPLICATIONS WITH INVERSELY COLORED THEMES ONAT, UMUT 2194 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jul 21, 2022
17861477 SECURE INPUT METHOD EDITOR FOR VIRTUAL APPLICATIONS SONG, HEE K 2497 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2022
17860718 EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF INTEGRATIONS FOR EXECUTING SEARCHES USING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P 2166 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022
17859336 INACTIVITY LOGOFF ADJUSTMENT BASED ON SCHEDULED EVENTS RONI, SYED A 2432 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2022
17847678 TASK MANAGEMENT TOOL MANSFIELD, THOMAS L 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2022
17664959 COMPUTING DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED COMPUTING RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS FOR APPLICATIONS AKBARI, FARAZ TIMA 2196 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending May 25, 2022
17729564 END-POINT INSTANCE INDEXING AND OWNER POP SELECTION IN GATEWAY SERVICE TICKETING DUONG, THAO DUC 2446 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Apr 26, 2022
17721999 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING WORKFLOWS BY CHAINING MICROAPPS IN A WORKSPACE PLATFORM TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 2196 §101 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2022
17658473 RESOURCE RECOMMENDATION SERVICE BASED ON USER EXPERTISE SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 08, 2022
17699236 GENERATION OF MULTIPLE LIMITED-SCOPE ACCESS TOKENS BENGZON, GREG C 2444 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2022
17572834 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WATERMARKING AUDIO OF SAAS APPLICATIONS TRACY JR., EDWARD 2656 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2022
17570140 Secure Display of Sensitive Content STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON 2491 §103 Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2022
17646910 DISTRIBUTED WORKSPACE SUPPORT OF SINGLE SIGN-ON FOR WEB APPLICATIONS NAJI, YOUNES 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 04, 2022
17401768 SCREEN SHARE FEATURE FOR ONLINE MEETINGS SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2021

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