Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hughes Network Systems LLC

14 pending office actions • 13 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
9
Information Tech
64% of docket
4
Communications
29% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 1 83.0% +13.4%
AGHDAM, FRESHTEH N 1 82.9% +5.0%
MERANT, GUERRIER 1 88.5% -2.6%
TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 1 71.8% +35.2%
ZHANG, SHIRLEY X 1 69.6% +14.4%
WONG, WARNER 1 89.4% +6.2%
CARDONE, JASON D 1 89.2% -14.0%
CHOI, HAESHIL JESSICA 1 73.3% -8.3%
CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO 1
TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN 1 77.9% +18.0%

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
18602525 INTER-SATELLITE LINK NETWORKING AND ROUTING FOR MULTIBEAM S-BAND LOW EARTH ORBIT WITH ANALOG FEEDER LINKS WONG, WARNER 9d overdue
18941613 OPTIMIZED CODE-SPLIT SYMBOL CONSTELLATIONS MERANT, GUERRIER 1d overdue
19081355 BANDWIDTH PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 14d
18584121 SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING WITH DIFFERENTIATED QUALITY OF SERVICE IN A SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CARDONE, JASON D 15d
19008321 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MODULATION USING ELECTROMAGNETIC POLARIZATION AGHDAM, FRESHTEH N 42d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18395898 INTERFERENCE DETECTION IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN 26d overdue
19081355 BANDWIDTH PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 14d
18937456 EFFICIENT MAINTENANCE FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 14d
18797586 MACHINE LEARNING TO ENHANCE SATELLITE TERMINAL PERFORMANCE ZHANG, SHIRLEY X 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2649 2
2424 1
2632 1
2111 1
2446 1
2447 1
2469 1
2458 1
2479 1
2648 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19081355 BANDWIDTH PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 17, 2025
19008321 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MODULATION USING ELECTROMAGNETIC POLARIZATION AGHDAM, FRESHTEH N 2632 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jan 02, 2025
18941613 OPTIMIZED CODE-SPLIT SYMBOL CONSTELLATIONS MERANT, GUERRIER 2111 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2024
18937456 EFFICIENT MAINTENANCE FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 2446 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18797586 MACHINE LEARNING TO ENHANCE SATELLITE TERMINAL PERFORMANCE ZHANG, SHIRLEY X 2447 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18602525 INTER-SATELLITE LINK NETWORKING AND ROUTING FOR MULTIBEAM S-BAND LOW EARTH ORBIT WITH ANALOG FEEDER LINKS WONG, WARNER 2469 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18584121 SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING WITH DIFFERENTIATED QUALITY OF SERVICE IN A SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CARDONE, JASON D 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18438141 HYBRID MULTI-ORBIT AND MULTI-PATH NETWORK ARCHITECTURE CHOI, HAESHIL JESSICA 2479 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18437222 DIVERSITY COMBINING A USER UPLINK IN A SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO 2649 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 08, 2024
18395898 INTERFERENCE DETECTION IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2023
18386937 DYNAMIC GATEWAY SELECTION MAK, RODRICK 2416 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2023
18501181 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION SUITABILITY FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATION JAIN, SWATI 2649 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18487500 POLYHEDRAL ANTENNA FOR LOW-EARTH-ORBIT SATELLITE SYSTEMS JENKINS, KIMBERLY YVETTE 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Oct 16, 2023
18100786 HOME NETWORK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT NGUYEN, BAO G 2461 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Jan 24, 2023

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