Technology area: Computing & Software
654 pending office actions • 197 art units • 538 examiners • 99 of 654 (15%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1,673 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC has 666 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The portfolio spans 547 distinct examiners and 198 distinct art units, showing very broad prosecution activity across software and computing classifications.
ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S is the busiest examiner, with 4 pending matters. That cluster is small within the overall docket, which is distributed across hundreds of examiners. Counsel needs scalable portfolio controls, coordinated claim and technical positions, and detailed monitoring of art-unit and examiner patterns to manage the breadth of pending prosecution effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 197 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. 197 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 | 56 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 187 (29%) |
| §103 only | 241 (37%) |
| §102 only | 16 (2%) |
| §112 only | 8 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 11 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 8 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 125 (19%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 4 | 67.0% | +25.7% |
| HOANG, SON T | 3 | 83.7% | +34.4% |
| HASAN, SYED HAROON | 3 | 81.6% | +15.5% |
| ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 3 | 69.5% | +30.3% |
| WILCOX, JAMES J | 3 | 70.0% | +61.4% |
| BAKER, IRENE H | 3 | 53.2% | +26.6% |
| WU, QING YUAN | 3 | 90.9% | +10.8% |
| KANG, INSUN | 3 | 78.6% | +39.6% |
| DASCOMB, JACOB D | 3 | 85.2% | +21.1% |
| TANK, ANDREW L | 3 | 68.6% | +30.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19312499 | STORING ENTRIES IN AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION FROM AN EMBEDDING OBJECT MEMORY | HOANG, SON T | — |
| 18772084 | CUSTOMIZED LANDING ZONE CODE CONFIGURATION AND DEPLOYMENT | HASAN, SYED HAROON | — |
| 18760728 | RIGHTSIZING VIRTUAL MACHINE DEPLOYMENTS IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | DASCOMB, JACOB D | — |
| 18760785 | RIGHTSIZING VIRTUAL MACHINE DEPLOYMENTS IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | DASCOMB, JACOB D | — |
| 18666099 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEM ON A CHIP | WU, QING YUAN | — |
| 18665362 | HARDWARE THREAD ALLOCATION CONTROLLER | WU, QING YUAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17494206 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR OVER TIME ANALYTICS USING GRAPH INTELLIGENCE | SWARTZ, STEPHEN S | 132d overdue |
| 17474347 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR THE INTELLIGENT MONITORING AND DELIVERY OF PERSONALIZED HEALTH AND WELLBEING TOOLS | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 125d overdue |
| 17609686 | RECOMMENDING THEME PATTERNS OF A DOCUMENT | SHIBEROU, MAHELET | 118d overdue |
| 18828098 | TARGETING TECHNIQUES FOR PROMOTED JOB POSTINGS | SNIDER, SCOTT | 112d overdue |
| 18476038 | CONFIGURATION VERIFICATION USING VARIABLE INPUTS AND HASH FUNCTIONS | SHEPPERD, ERIC W | 97d overdue |
| 18456021 | MINING PATTERNS IN A HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SPARSE FEATURE SPACE | VUONG, CAO DANG | 86d overdue |
| 18678058 | HYBRID DATABASE ARCHITECTURE FOR CUSTOM SCALE-OUT | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 84d overdue |
| 18827600 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT OF AI AGENTS | BAKER, IRENE H | 72d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678058 | HYBRID DATABASE ARCHITECTURE FOR CUSTOM SCALE-OUT | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 84d overdue |
| 18827600 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT OF AI AGENTS | BAKER, IRENE H | 72d overdue |
| 17749772 | DATA STRUCTURE CORRECTION USING NEURAL NETWORK MODEL | BAKER, IRENE H | 52d overdue |
| 19084981 | OBSERVATION STREAM ENGINE IN A SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 16d overdue |
| 19190006 | SEARCH SUMMARY GENERATION BASED ON SEARCHER CHARACTERISTICS | HASAN, SYED HAROON | 11d overdue |
| 18634007 | SCALABLE PUBLIC TURING TEST USING ANIMATION CLIPS | WILCOX, JAMES J | 7d |
| 18208840 | USING AN ONTOLOGICALLY TYPED GRAPH TO ENHANCE THE ACCURACY OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL BASED ANALYSIS SYSTEM | ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 29d |
| 18649527 | AUTOMATIVE SEMANTIC TENANT INDEX ONBOARDING | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2154 | 12 |
| 2192 | 11 |
| 2198 | 11 |
| 2122 | 11 |
| 2142 | 11 |
| 3715 | 10 |
| 2193 | 10 |
| 2655 | 10 |
| 2143 | 10 |
| 2128 | 10 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19376996 | Using Fixed-Weight Language Models to Create and Interact with a Retrieval Index | ZHAO, YU | 2169 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2025 |
| 19348937 | LARGE-SCALE DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING | HOANG, SON T | 2169 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19346542 | DYNAMIC WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATIONS USING REAL-TIME EXECUTION FEEDBACK | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 2153 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19342148 | HASH-BASED ENCODER DECISIONS FOR VIDEO CODING | PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J | 2482 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19332214 | THREADING CHATS WITH APPLICATION ACTIVITY | LU, KUEN S | 2165 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19325411 | MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATED SEMANTIC EQUIVALENCE DETECTION | DAYE, CHELCIE L | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19325378 | SEAT-ASSIGNMENT BASED RESOURCE TRACKING | WARNER, PHILIP N | 3624 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19321157 | LOG-BASED BLOCK CACHE DE-STAGE AND BACKEND STORAGE | CHERY, MARDOCHEE | 2133 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19312499 | STORING ENTRIES IN AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION FROM AN EMBEDDING OBJECT MEMORY | HOANG, SON T | 2169 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19307555 | MOTION CORRECTION FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT DEPTH IMAGING | PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19300048 | PROACTIVE CONTEXTUAL AND PERSONALIZED SEARCH QUERY IDENTIFICATION | SINGH, AMRESH | 2159 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19298764 | REGULAR EXPRESSION DECOMPOSITION AND EVALUATION | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19294444 | GENERATION OF SYNTHETIC DATA FOR QUERY GENERATION | SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM | 2166 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19288463 | SIGNALING OF STATE INFORMATION FOR A DECODED PICTURE BUFFER AND REFERENCE PICTURE LISTS | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 2486 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19275483 | APPLICATION IDENTITY ACCOUNT COMPROMISE DETECTION | CHAO, MICHAEL W | 2492 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19270991 | PRIVACY AWARE SOURCE CODE | GUNDRY, STEPHEN T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19271198 | TRANSACTIONAL DATABASE LAYER ABOVE A DISTRIBUTED KEY/VALUE STORE | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19257794 | IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION OF PERFORMANCE ISSUES OF ENTITIES AND AUTOMATED COMPONENTS | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | 2161 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19257791 | MALICIOUS ACTIVITY PROBABILITY DETERMINATIONS FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS | SHIN, KYUNG H | 2447 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19252812 | SYNCHRONIZING FILE DATA BETWEEN COMPUTER SYSTEMS | TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS | 2447 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19253226 | GENERATING SECURITY LANGUAGE QUERIES | GAVRILENKO, VLADIMIR I | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19251107 | PERSONALIZED SERVICE SCHEDULING | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 2447 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19249928 | ADJUSTING QUANTIZATION/SCALING AND INVERSE QUANTIZATION/SCALING WHEN SWITCHING COLOR SPACES | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19246506 | GENERATING A MITIGATION WORKFLOW FOR MITIGATING A TECHNICAL ISSUE OF A COMPUTING SERVICE USING HISTORICAL MITIGATION WORKFLOWS | GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19246678 | DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF PREDEFINED SENSITIVE INFORMATION TYPES FROM ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS | SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN | 2168 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19242855 | PROCESSING OF VIDEO OPERATIONS AS SUBTASKS FOR VIDEO FRAGMENTS | BECKER, JOSEPH W | 2483 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19238899 | ALLOW LIST OF CONTAINER IMAGES BASED ON DEPLOYMENT CONFIGURATION AT A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION SERVICE | LOUIE, HOWARD H | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19226268 | Preventing Illicit Data Transfer and Storage | HO, DAO Q | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19225445 | MULTI-TASK TWO-TOWER NEURAL NETWORK FOR CONTENT GUIDELINE EVALUTATION | COX, NATISHA D | 2458 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19225703 | ACCELERATED FATAL SYSTEM ERROR RECOVERY OF CONTAINER HOST | WILSON, YOLANDA L | 2113 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19224763 | AUDIO DE-IDENTIFICATION | ZHU, RICHARD Z | 2654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2025 |
| 19223406 | LOCAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY EXPRESS VIRTUALIZATION DEVICE | OBERLY, ERIC T | 2184 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19223515 | ADAPTIVE CHANNEL EQUALIZATION FOR A DUO-BINARY TRANSCEIVER | HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y | 2632 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19220561 | SCALABLE SOCKETS FOR QUIC | DAILEY, THOMAS J | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19215973 | LOGICAL QUBIT ENCODING SURFACE | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19215119 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ACCESS CONTROL VERIFICATION IN KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS BY UTILIZING DYNAMIC NODE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL CACHES | GEE, JASON KAI YIN | 2495 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19215038 | NOTIFICATION SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION | TALIOUA, ABDELBASST | 2445 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19212202 | PRIVACY PRESERVING IDENTITY RESOLUTION VIA PAGE CONTENT | ZEE, EDWARD | 2435 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19209176 | RESOURCE ANOMALY DETECTION | MCBETH, WILLIAM C | 2449 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19208159 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING DARK CURRENT COMPENSATION BY WEIGHTED FILTERING | CUTLER, ALBERT H | 2637 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19207214 | TRACKING AND MITIGATION OF QUASIPARTICLE POISONING ERRORS IN MAJORANA QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEMS | KNAPP, JUSTIN R | 2112 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19197304 | PACKET PROCESSING FOR NETWORK SECURITY GROUPS | HOANG, HIEU T | 2449 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19125702 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING MALICIOUS APPLICATIONS | DAVIS, ZACHARY A | 2492 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19190327 | PROXY-BASED IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT FOR WEB APPLICATIONS | HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT | 2458 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19190411 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING CODEWORDS | MCMAHON, DANIEL F | 2111 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19190006 | SEARCH SUMMARY GENERATION BASED ON SEARCHER CHARACTERISTICS | HASAN, SYED HAROON | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19186622 | CODE SEARCH FOR EXAMPLES TO AUGMENT MODEL PROMPT | CAIADO, ANTONIO J | 2164 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19186241 | REAL-TIME REPORT GENERATION | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 2857 | DP | Final Rejection | 36d | AI Ready | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19180870 | DOCUMENT RE-FINDING SYSTEM | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | 2161 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19176043 | GENERATIVE SUMMARIZATION DIALOG-BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | LE, HUNG D | 2161 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
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Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
