Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Gracenote Inc.

13 pending office actions • 6 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
3
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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.

4
Hard (31%)
7
Medium (54%)
2
Easy (15%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (15%)
§103 only7 (54%)
§112 only1 (8%)
Double-patenting only1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
38% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
7
Business / Other
54% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 1 58.2% +32.2%
HASAN, SYED HAROON 1 81.5% +15.6%
SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K 1 67.8% +33.6%
CHEN, XUEMEI G 1 77.0% +25.4%
ZENATI, AMAL S 1 79.6% +14.8%
BLAIR, KILE O 1 63.4% +8.0%
TAYLOR, JOSHUA D 1 59.1% +31.4%
MARIAM, DANIEL G 1 90.5% +10.4%
GANMAVO, KUASSI A 1 70.2% +20.4%
DOSHI, AKSHAY 1 63.7% +40.4%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19275048 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA HASAN, SYED HAROON

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17779538 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ATTRIBUTE VECTORS HU, XIAOQIN 39d
19029737 Methods and apparatus to fingerprint an audio signal via exponential normalization SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K
18960863 Audio Playout Report for Ride-Sharing Session BLAIR, KILE O
18911726 Transition Detector Neural Network MARIAM, DANIEL G

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18776970 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO EQUALIZATION GANMAVO, KUASSI A 41d
19358007 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL
19275048 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA HASAN, SYED HAROON
19029737 Methods and apparatus to fingerprint an audio signal via exponential normalization SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K
18999638 KEYFRAME EXTRACTOR CHEN, XUEMEI G
18976016 MACHINE-LED MOOD CHANGE ZENATI, AMAL S
18947867 Predictive Measurement of End-User Consumption of Scheduled Multimedia Transmissions TAYLOR, JOSHUA D
18911726 Transition Detector Neural Network MARIAM, DANIEL G

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2169 1
2692 1
2422 1
2178 1
2421 1
2168 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19358007 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 2169 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 14, 2025
19275048 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA HASAN, SYED HAROON §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 21, 2025
19029737 Methods and apparatus to fingerprint an audio signal via exponential normalization SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
18999638 KEYFRAME EXTRACTOR CHEN, XUEMEI G §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2024
18976016 MACHINE-LED MOOD CHANGE ZENATI, AMAL S §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18960863 Audio Playout Report for Ride-Sharing Session BLAIR, KILE O §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18947867 Predictive Measurement of End-User Consumption of Scheduled Multimedia Transmissions TAYLOR, JOSHUA D DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 14, 2024
18911726 Transition Detector Neural Network MARIAM, DANIEL G §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2024
18776970 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO EQUALIZATION GANMAVO, KUASSI A 2692 §103Other Final Rejection 41d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18666393 INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMING GUIDE DOSHI, AKSHAY 2422 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2024
18503110 INSERTING INFORMATION INTO PLAYING CONTENT NAZAR, AHAMED I 2178 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Nov 06, 2023
18548610 Separating Media Content Into Program Segments and Advertisement Segments CASTRO, ALFONSO 2421 §103Other Final Rejection 41d Pending Sep 01, 2023
17779538 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ATTRIBUTE VECTORS HU, XIAOQIN 2168 §101§112 Non-Final OA 39d Pending May 24, 2022

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