Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
51 pending office actions • 21 art units • 48 examiners • 0 of 51 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 139 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 | 2 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 7 (14%) |
| §103 only | 22 (43%) |
| §102 only | 2 (4%) |
| §112 only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (22%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | 2 | 65.7% | +19.7% |
| SCHELL, JOSEPH O | 2 | 87.2% | +8.7% |
| NANO, SARGON N | 2 | 80.7% | -1.6% |
| OBERLY, VAN HONG | 1 | 75.2% | +15.6% |
| WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | 1 | 35.9% | +26.1% |
| BUTLER, SARAI E | 1 | 88.1% | +10.8% |
| MACKALL, LARRY T | 1 | 85.1% | +8.1% |
| LI, SIDNEY | 1 | 79.6% | +6.3% |
| MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 89.2% | +9.2% |
| KRIEGER, JONAH C | 1 | 85.5% | +6.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212048 | DATA FLOW BOTTLENECK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES USING CACHING MECHANISMS IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS | MACKALL, LARRY T | — |
| 19204670 | ON-DEMAND SERVERLESS DISASTER RECOVERY | MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 19190994 | METHODS FOR HANDLING INPUT-OUTPUT OPERATIONS IN ZONED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND DEVICES THEREOF | KRIEGER, JONAH C | — |
| 18926934 | Multi-Controller Drive Recovery | SCHELL, JOSEPH O | — |
| 18646119 | AUTOMATED REMEDIATION OF DEVIATIONS FROM BEST PRACTICES IN A DATA MANAGEMENT STORAGE SOLUTION | SCHELL, JOSEPH O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18053126 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 44d overdue |
| 18194874 | REBALANCING SCANNER FOR USE IN REBALANCING FILES IN A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS | BAKER, IRENE H | 42d overdue |
| 18785773 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO HANDLE DEPENDENT DATA, CONFLICTING DATA, OR METADATA OPERATIONS ON A DUAL COPY CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SIMULATANEOUS READ-WRITE ABILITY ON EACH COPY | SOMERS, MARC S | 26d overdue |
| 18917175 | READ AMPLIFICATION REDUCTION IN A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM WHEN COMPRESSION IS ENABLED FOR A ZONED CHECKSUM SCHEME | WONG, HUEN | 16d overdue |
| 18304950 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 50d |
| 19238819 | KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | — |
| 19223319 | FLEXIBLE OBJECT SELECTION FOR SNAPSHOT OPERATIONS | WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | — |
| 19223277 | INSTANT AND IMMEDIATELY CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT RESTORE FROM A CLIENT PERSPECTIVE | BUTLER, SARAI E | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING STORAGE SYSTEM MONITORING DATA | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | 1d overdue |
| 19275261 | NON-DISRUPTIVE FILE MOVEMENT WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 19238819 | KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | — |
| 19223319 | FLEXIBLE OBJECT SELECTION FOR SNAPSHOT OPERATIONS | WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | — |
| 19223277 | INSTANT AND IMMEDIATELY CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT RESTORE FROM A CLIENT PERSPECTIVE | BUTLER, SARAI E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2154 | 3 |
| 2114 | 3 |
| 2443 | 3 |
| 2139 | 3 |
| 2152 | 3 |
| 2100 | 3 |
| 2132 | 2 |
| 2168 | 2 |
| 2438 | 2 |
| 2113 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19275261 | NON-DISRUPTIVE FILE MOVEMENT WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — | DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19238819 | KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19223319 | FLEXIBLE OBJECT SELECTION FOR SNAPSHOT OPERATIONS | WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19223277 | INSTANT AND IMMEDIATELY CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT RESTORE FROM A CLIENT PERSPECTIVE | BUTLER, SARAI E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19212048 | DATA FLOW BOTTLENECK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES USING CACHING MECHANISMS IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS | MACKALL, LARRY T | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19209081 | METHODS AND STORAGE NODES TO DECREASE DELAY IN RESUMING INPUT OUTPUT (I/O) OPERATIONS AFTER A NON-DISRUPTIVE EVENT FOR A STORAGE OBECT OF A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM BY UTILIZING ASYNCHRONOUS INFLIGHT REPLAY OF THE I/O OPERATIONS | LI, SIDNEY | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19204670 | ON-DEMAND SERVERLESS DISASTER RECOVERY | MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19190994 | METHODS FOR HANDLING INPUT-OUTPUT OPERATIONS IN ZONED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND DEVICES THEREOF | KRIEGER, JONAH C | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19183981 | SELECTIVELY BYPASSING AN EXTERNAL CACHE OF A STORAGE SYSTEM FOR LARGE READS BASED ON SATURATION LATENCY AND THROUGHPUT OF THE EXTERNAL CACHE | PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A | 2132 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19096560 | STORAGE TIER VERIFICATION CHECKS | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | Other | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19094923 | SNAPSHOT CREATION WITH SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2025 |
| 19074396 | FASTER REPLAY OF METADATA AND DATA OPERATIONS USING INODE NUMBER BASED DEPENDENCY GRAPH | KUNJITHAPATHAM, ANUGEETHA | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2025 |
| 19068324 | SPACE BALANCING WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM USING DISAGGREGATED STORAGE | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 2132 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19054557 | REBALANCING ENGINE FOR USE IN REBALANCING FILES IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMS | TO, BAOQUOC N | 2154 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19054594 | PROACTIVELY TAKING ACTION RESPONSIVE TO EVENTS WITHIN A CLUSTER BASED ON A RANGE OF NORMAL BEHAVIOR LEARNED FOR VARIOUS USER ROLES | STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19036275 | FACILITATING NETWORK DATA PACKET THROUGHPUT WITH IMMEDIATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RESENT NETWORK DATA PACKETS | HOSSAIN, KAMAL M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19029493 | CROSS-SITE HIGH-AVAILABILITY DISTRIBUTED CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM TO MONITOR VIRTUAL CHANNELS BETWEEN STORAGE NODES AND PREVENT CHANNEL SHARING OF A RECEIVE QUEUE | BUI, JONATHAN A | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029599 | PREFETCHING KEYS FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION | OTTO, ALAN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18980516 | Cross-Shelf Data Replication | MCNAMARA, SEAN KEVIN | 2113 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18926934 | Multi-Controller Drive Recovery | SCHELL, JOSEPH O | 2114 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18921168 | CONFIGURABLE QUALITY OF SERVICE PROVIDER PIPELINE | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 2441 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18917175 | READ AMPLIFICATION REDUCTION IN A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM WHEN COMPRESSION IS ENABLED FOR A ZONED CHECKSUM SCHEME | WONG, HUEN | 2168 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18898991 | SYSTEM CRASH ANALYSIS MECHANISM | VANG, MENG | 2443 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18897976 | Fan Control Setting Generation Using Machine Learning | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 2116 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18821335 | INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS PER SECOND (IOPS) AND THROUGHPUT MONITORING FOR DYNAMIC AND OPTIMAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION | UNELUS, ERNEST | — | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18799034 | Data Storage System Drive Utilization | KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R | 2114 | §103 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18790854 | METHODS FOR MANAGING STORAGE OPERATIONS FOR MULTIPLE HOSTS COUPLED TO DUAL-PORT SOLID-STATE DISKS AND DEVICES THEREOF | SADLER, NATHAN | 2139 | §102 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18787306 | Systems And Methods For Resource Lifecyle Management | LIN, HSING CHUN | 2195 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18785888 | Data Exfiltration Monitoring Using Hash Values | HERZOG, MADHURI R | 2438 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785537 | Ransomware Detecting Using Decoy Files | LIU, ZHE | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785773 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO HANDLE DEPENDENT DATA, CONFLICTING DATA, OR METADATA OPERATIONS ON A DUAL COPY CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SIMULATANEOUS READ-WRITE ABILITY ON EACH COPY | SOMERS, MARC S | 2159 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785783 | METHODS TO MAINTAIN READ-WRITE CONSISTENCY AND DEPENDENT WRITE ORDER CONSISTENCY WITHIN A CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM | HUANG, BRYAN PAI SONG | 2114 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18740944 | Hybrid Model Of Fine-Grained Locking And Data Partitioning | ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 2152 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18661835 | REMOTE CLONING OF FILES IN DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS | DWIVEDI, MAHESH H | 2168 | §112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18646119 | AUTOMATED REMEDIATION OF DEVIATIONS FROM BEST PRACTICES IN A DATA MANAGEMENT STORAGE SOLUTION | SCHELL, JOSEPH O | 2100 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18617356 | ONLINE MIGRATION OF A STORAGE APPLIANCE FROM ONE DISK TYPE TO ANOTHER | TSAI, SHENG JEN | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18601726 | Methods And Systems For Moving Virtual Logical Storage Units Between Data Center Management Servers | PATEL, HIREN P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18585250 | METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL PROPAGATION IN TREE STRUCTURES AND DEVICES THEREOF | HERSHLEY, MARK E | 2164 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18423922 | Multi-Level Ransomware Detection | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L | 2495 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18424122 | Cloud Ransomware Detection | JEUDY, JOSNEL | 2438 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18424368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING STORAGE SYSTEM MONITORING DATA | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | 2152 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18392807 | AUTOMATED REMEDIATION OF ISSUES ARISING IN A DATA MANAGEMENT STORAGE SOLUTION | RUSIN, KAYO LISA | 2100 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18304950 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 2443 | §101 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18301091 | AUTOMATED REMEDIATION OF ISSUES ARISING IN A DATA MANAGEMENT STORAGE SOLUTION | SHELTON, GABRIELLA KANANI | 2100 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18194874 | REBALANCING SCANNER FOR USE IN REBALANCING FILES IN A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS | BAKER, IRENE H | 2152 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18194332 | Write-Back Caching Across Clusters | HO, AARON D | 2139 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18112996 | Methods and Systems for Protecting and Restoring Virtual Machines | CHEN, ZHI | 2196 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 18168739 | CREATION AND RETENTION OF IMMUTABLE SNAPSHOTS TO FACILITATE RANSOMWARE PROTECTION | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2439 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18160653 | SELF-BALANCING STORAGE SYSTEM | KIM, ELIAS YOUNG | 2135 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 18053126 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 2443 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
| 17660900 | OBJECT STORAGE CACHE PREWARMING | MOTTER, JORDAN SCOTT | 2198 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
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