Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Mellanox Technologies Ltd.

91 pending office actions • 59 art units • 89 examiners • 0 of 91 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 164 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

91
Total Pending OAs
54
Non-Final OAs
33
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
3
Due this week
4
Due this month
4
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (4)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.

35
Hard (38%)
51
Medium (56%)
5
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (2%)
§101 + other8 (9%)
§103 only44 (48%)
§102 only5 (5%)
Double-patenting only5 (5%)
Double-patenting + other2 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)25 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
60
Information Tech
66% of docket
6
Communications
7% of docket
11
Semiconductors
12% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
14
Business / Other
15% 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.

910 h
Manual time on pending OAs
182 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
318 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
8.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KASSA, ELIZABETH 2 80.2% -6.3%
HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2 80.3% +17.0%
HO, ANDREW N 1 61.1% +31.0%
MACKALL, LARRY T 1 85.1% +8.1%
WOO, ANDREW M 1 82.6% +44.4%
TSAI, SHENG JEN 1 70.4% +13.6%
JAGAN, MIRELLYS 1 82.9% +5.7%
MYERS, PAUL R 1 79.3% +13.4%
KAPLAN, BENJAMIN A 1 88.7% +11.8%
COUSINS, JOSEPH M 1 63.5% +19.4%

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
19052934 THERMAL SENSOR INTEGRATION FOR SYSTEM TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT JAGAN, MIRELLYS
19029733 AI-SUPPORTED NETWORK TELEMETRY USING DATA PROCESSING UNIT KAPLAN, BENJAMIN A
18624176 Maximum Compare-and-Swap Remote Direct Memory Operation (RDMO) KASSA, ELIZABETH
18516833 LATENCY-DRIVEN SHARED BUFFER ALGORITHM HASSAN, AURANGZEB
18240549 DATA PACKETS WITH MEMORY ACCESS PROTOCOLS IN HIGH-SPEED PACKET NETWORKS HASSAN, AURANGZEB

Hard Cases (35)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17876245 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN OPTICAL SIGNAL EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 23d overdue
18627972 ALLOCATING POWER BETWEEN INTERCONNECT DEVICES CHAN, DANNY 18d overdue
18787408 SUB-IMAGE STREAMING AND PROCESSING BROWN, SHEREE N 10d overdue
18595475 Network device with datagram transport layer security VAUGHAN, MICHAEL R 5d overdue
18491820 Remote Memory Filling UNELUS, ERNEST 4d overdue
17709458 Efficient Semiconductor Metrology Using Machine Learning GREEN, TELLY D 4d overdue
17500598 VECTOR ACTIVATION FUNCTION TO SUPPORT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AND OTHER PROCESSES BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 7d
18485368 Estimating ambient airflow based on temperature sensing LE, JOHN H 14d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
19208832 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR MEMORY SYSTEM DETERMINATION AND DUPLICATIVE DATA WRITE PREVENTION HO, ANDREW N
19174316 DYNAMIC FABRIC REACTION FOR OPTIMIZED COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATION WOO, ANDREW M
19056784 Confidential computing with device memory isolation TSAI, SHENG JEN
19030411 DATA SHUFFLE OFFLOAD MYERS, PAUL R
19029733 AI-SUPPORTED NETWORK TELEMETRY USING DATA PROCESSING UNIT KAPLAN, BENJAMIN A
19028356 STATISTICAL HIGH BANDWIDTH AND PACKET RATE CROSSBAR WITH LOW CELL COUNT COUSINS, JOSEPH M
18516833 LATENCY-DRIVEN SHARED BUFFER ALGORITHM HASSAN, AURANGZEB
18240549 DATA PACKETS WITH MEMORY ACCESS PROTOCOLS IN HIGH-SPEED PACKET NETWORKS HASSAN, AURANGZEB

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2184 4
2457 4
2449 3
2194 3
2828 3
2634 2
2635 2
2478 2
2195 2
2181 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19208832 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR MEMORY SYSTEM DETERMINATION AND DUPLICATIVE DATA WRITE PREVENTION HO, ANDREW N 2169 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2025
19198048 Network Adapter Providing Address Translation as a Service MACKALL, LARRY T §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 04, 2025
19174316 DYNAMIC FABRIC REACTION FOR OPTIMIZED COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATION WOO, ANDREW M §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 09, 2025
19056784 Confidential computing with device memory isolation TSAI, SHENG JEN 2437 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 19, 2025
19052934 THERMAL SENSOR INTEGRATION FOR SYSTEM TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT JAGAN, MIRELLYS DP Non-Final OA Pending Feb 13, 2025
19030411 DATA SHUFFLE OFFLOAD MYERS, PAUL R §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19029733 AI-SUPPORTED NETWORK TELEMETRY USING DATA PROCESSING UNIT KAPLAN, BENJAMIN A DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19028356 STATISTICAL HIGH BANDWIDTH AND PACKET RATE CROSSBAR WITH LOW CELL COUNT COUSINS, JOSEPH M §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19026299 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INITIATING RETRANSMISSION REQUESTS NGUYEN, THIEN DANG 2111 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
19016091 SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATION OF NETWORK RESOURCES FOR OPTIMIZED DATA COMMUNICATION IN HIERARCHICAL NETWORKS NGUYEN, LINH T §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2025
19015129 LIVE MIGRATION FOR CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTE ENVIRONMENTS GADALLA, HANY S 4100 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 09, 2025
19012523 SESSION SHARING WITH REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS CONNECTIONS WANG, LIANG CHE A 2447 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 07, 2025
18988345 INTERRUPT EMULATION ON NETWORK DEVICES DANG, PHONG H 2184 §102Other Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2024
18937436 TRANSCEIVER RESILIENCY FOR EMBEDDED OPTICAL DEVICES PHAN, HANH 2634 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 05, 2024
18935698 Data Processing Performance Optimization Under Power Budgeting Constraints REHMAN, MOHAMMED H 2176 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 04, 2024
18932660 Multicore Network Adapter BAROT, BHARAT 2453 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18915400 Packet Transmission with Implicit Loss Indication (ILI) SCHEIBEL, ROBERT C 2467 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 15, 2024
18911312 Fast In-Service Software Updating using Multi-Layer Memory KENDALL, CHUCK O DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2024
18889952 OPTICAL CONNECTORS AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME WONG, ERIC K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 19, 2024
18808849 ASYMMETRICAL SCALING OF CO-PACKAGED OPTICS ISMAIL, OMAR S 2635 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 19, 2024
18787408 SUB-IMAGE STREAMING AND PROCESSING BROWN, SHEREE N 2612 §103§112 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18782396 ENHANCED ROUTING PERFORMANCE YU, XIANG 2455 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2024
18781879 REMOTE FAULT LINKS PROPAGATION DABIPI, DIXON F 2451 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jul 23, 2024
18778392 ACCESS CONTROL FOR SHARED RESOURCES DALENCOURT, YVES 2457 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18766798 Efficient flow aging WHITAKER, JUSTIN MICHAEL 2415 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2024
18756506 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DUPLICATE DELIVERY PREVENTION FOR DYNAMICALLY CONNECTED TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT 2458 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2024
18756760 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PACKET ORDERING IN DYNAMICALLY CONNECTED TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS BARKER, TODD L 2449 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2024
18752540 SHARED HARDWARE INTERFACE FOR OPTIMIZING CROSSBAR CHEN, CAI Y 2425 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2024
18747252 NETWORK DEVICES ASSISTED BY MACHINE LEARNING TURCHEN, JAMES R 2439 DP Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18744636 Cross network bridging ZAIDI, IQBAL §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 16, 2024
18680404 CONNECTIVITY INDICATORS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID 2635 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 31, 2024
18668320 Smart Serial Bus Interface Circuit WANG, HARRY Z 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18664347 Two-way time synchronization protocol on network device KIM, SUN JONG 2469 §103DP Final Rejection Pending May 15, 2024
18664340 Accelerated time synchronization follower SMARTH, GERALD A 2478 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2024
18649334 CONFIGURABLE AND DYNAMIC SERVICE FUNCTION CHAINING (SFC) INTERFACE MAPPING ON A DATA PROCESSING UNIT (DPU) AHMED, SYED MUZAKKIR 2466 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 29, 2024
18649319 NETWORK PIPELINE ABSTRACTION LAYER (NPAL) OPTIMIZED PIPELINE FOR NETWORK ACCELERATION LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18638254 NETWORK PACKET PROCESSING FLOW TESTS HACKENBERG, RACHEL J 2454 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 63d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18631846 AUTO NEGOTIATION OVER OPTICS MANNAVA, VIJAY KUMAR 2634 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 10, 2024
18629354 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING INTERCONNECT MODULES PAPE, ZACHARY §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2024
18627972 ALLOCATING POWER BETWEEN INTERCONNECT DEVICES CHAN, DANNY 2175 §102§103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18625738 SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR NETWORK DATA COLLECTION, TRANSMISSION, AND PROCESSING MENDAYE, KIDEST H 2457 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 03, 2024
18625745 TRAFFIC MONITORING AND CONTROL DURING LIVE MIGRATION KESSLER, GREGORY AARON §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 03, 2024
18624184 Append Remote Direct Memory Operation (RDMO) KASSA, ELIZABETH 2457 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 02, 2024
18624679 INTERRUPT MODERATION ONLOAD FOR ACCELERATED DATA PATHS DAO, TUAN C. §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 02, 2024
18624176 Maximum Compare-and-Swap Remote Direct Memory Operation (RDMO) KASSA, ELIZABETH 2457 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 02, 2024
18607830 High Frequency Telemetry NGUYEN, BRANDON A 2195 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 18, 2024
18595475 Network device with datagram transport layer security VAUGHAN, MICHAEL R 2431 §102§103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18441261 MULTI-MATERIAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL THERMAL CONDUCTIVE TRACES VARGHESE, ROSHN K 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18415878 SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATION OF NETWORK RESOURCES FOR EXECUTING DEEP LEARNING RECOMMENDATION MODEL (DLRM) TASKS BENGZON, GREG C 2444 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 18, 2024
18406261 Firmware code development method NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 2199 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Jan 08, 2024
18403208 VOLTAGE VARIATION SUPPRESSION USING PSRR BOOST IN LINEAR REGULATORS CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO 2838 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 03, 2024
18524624 ADAPTIVE PORT ROUTING NOTIFICATION NG, CHRISTINE Y 2464 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2023
18516833 LATENCY-DRIVEN SHARED BUFFER ALGORITHM HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2184 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2023
18491820 Remote Memory Filling UNELUS, ERNEST 2181 §103§112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18381608 DETERMINING OPTIMAL MULTIPATH NETWORK COST BASED ON TRAFFIC SEASONALITY TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 2446 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 18, 2023
18487086 Heat management in network switch CHOI, MICHAEL W 2116 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2023
18485368 Estimating ambient airflow based on temperature sensing LE, JOHN H 2857 §101§102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Oct 12, 2023
18475297 Accuracy monitoring of clock synchronized systems VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY 2475 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2023
18240549 DATA PACKETS WITH MEMORY ACCESS PROTOCOLS IN HIGH-SPEED PACKET NETWORKS HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2184 §102 Final Rejection Pending Aug 31, 2023
18229794 EXPLICIT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR UNRELIABLE TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS JAVAID, JAMAL 2412 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2023
18228505 PHYSICAL LAYER SYNCHRONIZATION SHARMA, POONAM 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18224258 STRIDED MESSAGE BASED RECEIVE BUFFER CHU, WUTCHUNG 2418 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 20, 2023
18347658 High frequency event-based hardware diagnostics MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA 2114 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 06, 2023
18203679 ELECTRONIC SUB-ASSEMBLY INCLUDING CERAMIC SUBSTRATE WITH CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURES PASSING THERETHROUGH MAIGA, SIDI MOHAMED 2847 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2023
18311489 QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND OPTIMIZATION IN CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS ZONG, HELEN 2683 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18141595 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE OR DATA AGGREGATION IN COMPUTER NETWORKS ONAT, UMUT 2194 §101§103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 01, 2023
18119714 DETECTING POTENTIAL MALWARE IN HOST MEMORY RASHID, HARUNUR 2497 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Mar 09, 2023
18117667 COMBINED SESSION NEGOTIATIONS SRIRAM, ADITYA 2491 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2023
18113282 EFFICIENT USE OF HASH BITS FOR FULL NETWORK FORWARDING SCHEME ASRES, HERMON 2449 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 23, 2023
18109729 ACCELERATED EMULATION DEVICE BACKEND SOFTWARE UPDATE WITH SHORT DOWNTIME MILLS, FRANK D 2194 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 14, 2023
18106933 RATIONAL VALUE RATE LIMITER NANO, SARGON N 2443 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2023
18100296 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROACTIVE THERMAL MANAGEMENT AND PROCESSING CORE SELECTION AKBARI, FARAZ TIMA 2196 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 23, 2023
18093478 SWITCH PORT AGGREGATION IN CENTRALIZED SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS (SDN) LI, GUANG W 2478 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 05, 2023
18085858 NETWORK DEVICES WITH USER-DEFINED MANAGEMENT OF OPERATING PARAMETERS GHAFFARI, ABU Z 2195 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2022
18074563 Selective aggregation of messages in collective operations KE, PENG 2194 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2022
18073662 SEGREGATED FABRIC CONTROL PLANE SWIFT, CHARLES M 2196 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 02, 2022
17984424 SCALABLE NETWORKING SYSTEMS AND PATCH PANELS MUNDUR, PADMAVATHI V 2441 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2022
17955591 Flow-based management of shared buffer resources WU, JIANYE 2462 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2022
17892283 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING TEMPERATURE IN A SERVER BADERMAN, SCOTT T 2118 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2022
17887642 PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE RECOMMENDATION THROUGH COMPONENT CONDITION DATA MONITORING LEE, BYUNG RO 2858 §101§102 Final Rejection Pending Aug 15, 2022
17883045 HIGH-SPEED QUATERNARY MATERIAL-BASED PHOTODETECTOR KOLAHDOUZAN, HAJAR 2898 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2022
17876245 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN OPTICAL SIGNAL EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 2828 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2022
17812796 MESA/TRENCH FREE VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER (VCSEL) NELSON, HUNTER JARED 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 15, 2022
17844461 DATA REFORMAT OPERATION ABAD, FARLEY J 2181 §103Other Final Rejection 33d Pending Jun 20, 2022
17713251 PACING SERVING OF CONTENT TRANSFER REQUESTS KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 05, 2022
17709458 Efficient Semiconductor Metrology Using Machine Learning GREEN, TELLY D 2898 §102§103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
17519411 Integrated Optical Switch Having Doped Fiber/Waveguide Amplifiers Packaged in A Transposer CHU, CHRIS H 2874 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 04, 2021
17500598 VECTOR ACTIVATION FUNCTION TO SUPPORT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AND OTHER PROCESSES BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §103§112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Oct 13, 2021
17499580 MATRIX AND VECTOR MANIPULATION TO SUPPORT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AND OTHER PROCESSES LE, PHAT NGOC 2182 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 12, 2021
17346093 SECURE NETWORK ACCESS DEVICE RAZA, MUHAMMAD A 2449 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 11, 2021
16890149 VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER WITH CHARACTERISTIC WAVELENGTH OF 910 NM HAGAN, SEAN P 2828 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 02, 2020

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