Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Pure Storage Inc.

Technology area: Computing & Software

93 pending office actions • 33 art units • 77 examiners • 0 of 93 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 173 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

93
Total Pending OAs
52
Non-Final OAs
40
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
8
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (8)

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.

32
Hard (34%)
54
Medium (58%)
7
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§101 + other11 (12%)
§103 only43 (46%)
§102 only6 (6%)
§112 only4 (4%)
Double-patenting only3 (3%)
Double-patenting + other5 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)20 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
64
Information Tech
69% of docket
1
Communications
1% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
1% of docket
27
Business / Other
29% 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.

930 h
Manual time on pending OAs
186 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
326 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
8.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MENG, JAU SHYA 4 79.3% +33.9%
SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 3 77.3% +13.0%
PARK, GRACE A 2 76.3% +17.6%
CHOE, YONG J 2 92.3% +4.5%
MOBIN, HASANUL 2 75.3% +38.8%
ZHAO, YU 2 52.6% +40.7%
CARDWELL, ERIC 2 88.0% +11.7%
KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 2 79.4% +24.0%
DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 2 84.0% +10.5%
FRANKLIN, RICHARD B 2 83.4% +0.6%

Quick Wins (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18808651 Cost-Efficient Disaster Recovery Using Cloud Computing Environments FRANKLIN, RICHARD B 50d overdue
18333494 Variable Redundancy For Metadata In Storage Systems CARDWELL, ERIC 19d overdue
19287273 POLICY-BASED OBJECT CACHING IN MULTITENANT STORAGE SYSTEMS BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS CHOE, YONG J —
19198976 Data Migration Across Different Parity Configurations Within A Unified Storage Element CARDWELL, ERIC —
19019767 Queueing Storage Operations DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY —
19016448 NETWORK CONNECTED STORAGE SYSTEM FRANKLIN, RICHARD B —

Hard Cases (32)

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
18923309 Leveraging a Large Language Model (‘LLM’) for Managing a Fleet of Storage Systems MEHEDI, MORSHED 15d
16907514 USING DATA CHARACTERISTICS TO OPTIMIZE GROUPING OF SIMILAR DATA FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION LE, JESSICA N 29d
18758152 Configurable Realms To Support Multi-Tenancy For Storage Resources DINH, KHANH Q 34d
19010790 Pod-Level Snapshot Replication HOANG, SON T 36d
18999538 Projecting Capacity Utilization For Snapshots VERDERAMO III, RALPH A 39d
18821723 Intelligent Snapshot Management MENG, JAU SHYA 56d
19423524 FLASH SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LOG ANALYTICS AND ANOMALY DETECTION PARK, GRACE A —
19287535 ADAPTIVE WORKLOAD ALLOCATION USING STORAGE SYSTEM UTILIZATION PATTERNS SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J —

Interview Candidates (19)

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
18333494 Variable Redundancy For Metadata In Storage Systems CARDWELL, ERIC 19d overdue
19194679 Virtual Drive Layer Storage And Replication Of External Datasets In A Cloud Environment MOBIN, HASANUL 12d
18311104 Optimizing I/O For Client Devices Using Different Computing Resources Of A Storage System SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 22d
18946188 PROVIDING MULTITENANT ENCRYPTION IN A MANAGED FLASH STORAGE DEVICE STORAGE SYSTEM SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 33d
18821723 Intelligent Snapshot Management MENG, JAU SHYA 56d
19425066 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFRASTRUCTURE WITH GPU-INITIATED STORAGE OPERATIONS PARK, GRACE A —
19423524 FLASH SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LOG ANALYTICS AND ANOMALY DETECTION PARK, GRACE A —
19287535 ADAPTIVE WORKLOAD ALLOCATION USING STORAGE SYSTEM UTILIZATION PATTERNS SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2139 8
2137 6
2168 5
2184 4
2169 4
2181 4
2114 3
2138 3
2144 2
2112 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19425066 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFRASTRUCTURE WITH GPU-INITIATED STORAGE OPERATIONS PARK, GRACE A 2144 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 18, 2025
19423524 FLASH SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LOG ANALYTICS AND ANOMALY DETECTION PARK, GRACE A 2144 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 17, 2025
19295835 Storage Unit Error Identification in a Storage Network RUSIN, KAYO LISA 2114 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 11, 2025
19287273 POLICY-BASED OBJECT CACHING IN MULTITENANT STORAGE SYSTEMS BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS CHOE, YONG J — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2025
19287611 SIMILARITY-BASED GLOBAL DATA REDUCTION ACROSS VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEMS HARPER, ELIYAH STONE — §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2025
19286828 REPLICATING DATA USING A VIRTUAL VOLUME DATASTORE BERTRAM, RYAN — §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2025
19287535 ADAPTIVE WORKLOAD ALLOCATION USING STORAGE SYSTEM UTILIZATION PATTERNS SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2025
19285396 STORAGE CLASS SELECTION BASED ON PREDICTED DATA LONGEVITY DUDEK JR, EDWARD J — §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 30, 2025
19282748 DATA REPLICATION WITH ADAPTIVE MODE SWITCHING MENG, JAU SHYA — §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 28, 2025
19278349 Cloud-Based Data Storage and Recovery System with Tiered Storage Management MOBIN, HASANUL — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 23, 2025
19271388 OPTIMIZING DATA STORAGE IN A DISTRIBUTED FLASH SYSTEM WONG, NANCI N — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 16, 2025
19263692 Storing and Processing Encrypted Data ZHAO, YU — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 09, 2025
19251315 FORMING AVAILABLE STORAGE UNITS HAVING DIFFERING EFFECTIVE CAPACITIES GU, SHAWN X 2139 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 26, 2025
19249778 Using a Data Structure to Manage Directory-Tree Operations in File Storage KRIEGER, JONAH C 2139 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 25, 2025
19249286 Storage System Optimization Operations Coordinated by a Container Storage Interface Filter Driver OBERLY, ERIC T 2184 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 25, 2025
19244944 MANAGING DIFFERING ERASE BLOCK SIZES KHAN, MASUD K 2139 §102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 20, 2025
19242159 UTILIZING DATA PROCESSING UNITS TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF AN ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE STORAGE SYSTEM CHERY, MARDOCHEE — §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 18, 2025
19237589 Monitoring And Configuring Storage Systems Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) FARROKH, HASHEM 2138 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 13, 2025
19220856 Verifying Transactions via Block Chains in a Distributed Computer System CHOUAT, ABDERRAHMEN — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 28, 2025
19214218 Optimizing Storage Device Utilization Based on Background Operations MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C — §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 21, 2025
19210986 OPTIMIZING SUBSEGMENT HEIGHT IN A HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE SYSTEM ALSIP, MICHAEL — DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2025
19208316 UTILIZING INCREMENTAL PARITY TO OPTIMIZE FLASH MEMORY STORAGE ROSSITER, SEAN D — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending May 14, 2025
19205052 Method for Using Availability Polling in a Distributed Storage System ZHAO, YU 2169 §102§103DP Final Rejection — Pending May 12, 2025
19198976 Data Migration Across Different Parity Configurations Within A Unified Storage Element CARDWELL, ERIC — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 05, 2025
19194679 Virtual Drive Layer Storage And Replication Of External Datasets In A Cloud Environment MOBIN, HASANUL 2168 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 30, 2025
19189344 Coordinating Access To A Single-Ported Storage Device In Multi-Controller Storage Systems SUN, MICHAEL — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2025
19187730 HIERARCHICAL QUEUES IN A STORAGE SYSTEM BELKHAYAT, ZAKARIA MOHAMMED 2139 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 23, 2025
19086624 Storage System-based Enhancement of a Network Monitoring Service that Monitors for Anomalous Outgoing Network Traffic from Within a Managed Network GRACIA, GARY S — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 21, 2025
19081870 Orchestrating Storage Provisioning Policies Using Declared Storage Objectives PATEL, NIMESH G — §102DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2025
19067578 ESTIMATING A REMAINING LIFESPAN OF A STORAGE DEVICE KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 2139 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 28, 2025
19053874 Providing Non-Volatile Storage To Cloud Computing Services CHOE, YONG J — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2025
19053323 ADAPTIVE BUFFER FOR MANAGED FLASH SYSTEM CHOI, CHARLES J — §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2025
19039493 MANAGING DATA CONFIGURATION INFORMATION ACROSS DATA REPOSITORIES MENG, JAU SHYA 2168 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 28, 2025
19027992 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOLID STATE MEMORY REFRESH ABRAHAM, ESAW T — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19030295 Identifying a Resource of a Storage Network for Data Retrieval NGUYEN, PHUOC H — §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19021479 Rebuilding Encoded Data Slices in Accordance with a Reduced Rebuild Threshold NGUYEN, THIEN DANG 2137 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2025
19022129 VOLTAGE THRESHOLD ADJUSTMENT OF STORAGE DEVICES BY AN EXTERNAL CONTROLLER ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2025
19019767 Queueing Storage Operations DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 2184 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
19020747 MODIFYING PROTOCOLS FOR MULTI-PORTED STORAGE DEVICES OF A STORAGE SYSTEM DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 2184 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
19016448 NETWORK CONNECTED STORAGE SYSTEM FRANKLIN, RICHARD B 2181 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Jan 10, 2025
19014578 Notification of an Unfavorable Access Pattern in a Storage Network KNAPP, JUSTIN R 2112 §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 09, 2025
19010790 Pod-Level Snapshot Replication HOANG, SON T 2169 §101§103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Jan 06, 2025
19003649 COORDINATING WRITES OF DATA BETWEEN STORAGE CONTROLLERS OF A STORAGE SYSTEM CYGIEL, GARY W 2137 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 27, 2024
18999538 Projecting Capacity Utilization For Snapshots VERDERAMO III, RALPH A 2139 §102§103Other Final Rejection 39d Pending Dec 23, 2024
18974112 Replicating Multiple Storage Systems Utilizing Coordinated Snapshots HOANG, SON T 2169 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18970070 Using Metadata Servers in a Distributed Storage System YU, HENRY W 2181 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Dec 05, 2024
18958952 COORDINATION SNAPSHOTS IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 2139 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 25, 2024
18951383 PROTECTING AGAINST LATENT ERRORS USING INTRA-DEVICE PROTECTION DATA PERRY, VICTOR NICHOLAS 2111 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2024
18950945 Security Policy Analysis And Updating Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) SARKER, SANCHIT K 2495 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18946188 PROVIDING MULTITENANT ENCRYPTION IN A MANAGED FLASH STORAGE DEVICE STORAGE SYSTEM SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Nov 13, 2024
18945120 Verifying Data Integrity End-to-End in a Storage System YOON, ALEXANDER J 2135 §103§112DP Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18944637 End-to-End Data Integrity in a Storage System BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA 2112 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18942265 Efficient Storage of a Data Object in a Storage Network KASSA, ELIZABETH — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024
18933936 Storage Resource Backup Using Snapshot Deltas PATEL, KAMINI B 2114 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 31, 2024
18928534 Consensus Based Data Deletion in a Distributed Storage Network CHANG, JUNGWON — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2024
18924264 Using Large Language Models (‘LLMs’) For Code Hardening In A Storage System KABIR, MOHAMMAD H 2181 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 23, 2024
18923309 Leveraging a Large Language Model (‘LLM’) for Managing a Fleet of Storage Systems MEHEDI, MORSHED 2408 §101§103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Oct 22, 2024
18915761 Encryption of Encoded Data in a Storage Network CAREY, FORREST L 2491 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 15, 2024
18900120 Data Storage System with Dynamic Logging Capabilities ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18890652 UTILIZING POWER MANAGEMENT STATISTICS TO IMPROVE STORAGE SYSTEM EFFICIENCY RAHMAN, FAHMIDA 2175 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2024
18888010 INTELLIGENT SCHEDULING OF OPERATIONS IN A STORAGE SYSTEM CHAN, TRACY C 2138 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 17, 2024
18825359 Balancing throughput and response time quality of service SHIU, HO T 2443 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 05, 2024
18821723 Intelligent Snapshot Management MENG, JAU SHYA 2168 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18809413 Predicting Write Lifetimes For Data Using Machine Learning OTTO, ALAN 2132 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18808651 Cost-Efficient Disaster Recovery Using Cloud Computing Environments FRANKLIN, RICHARD B 2181 §103Other Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2024
18809094 Non-Disruptively Scaling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Hyperscale Infrastructures CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A 2444 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 19, 2024
18794261 Configuring Serverless Function Access to External Storage PEUGH, BRIAN R 2133 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 05, 2024
18786923 On-Demand Generation of Audit Log Data ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18758152 Configurable Realms To Support Multi-Tenancy For Storage Resources DINH, KHANH Q 2458 §102§103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18745946 Filling Out The Space Of RAID Format Changes During Drive Capacity And Count Changes THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 2137 §102 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18670890 Performing Administrator Operations On Separate Namespaces PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 2492 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 22, 2024
18627730 Implementing Volume-Level Access Policies In Storage Systems MENG, JAU SHYA 2168 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 05, 2024
18593140 DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE STORAGE SYSTEM PHAN, TUANKHANH D 2154 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 01, 2024
18593745 OPTICAL SPLITTER COMPONENT LEE, JAI M 2634 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18593468 AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION OF MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION LAYERS OF A STORAGE SYSTEM SHOLEMAN, ABU S 2496 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 01, 2024
18587370 Using Managed Directories to Control Access to File System Content MORRIS, JOHN J 2152 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 26, 2024
18431284 Storage Network Processing System with System Registry File Verification BREENE, PAUL J — §101§102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 02, 2024
18427031 Performance Improvement For Storage Devices MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D 2113 §103Other Final Rejection 54d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18415257 Facilitating Virtual Machines in a Container System PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M 2138 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 17, 2024
18394893 Performing Coalesced Storage Operations MAMO, ELIAS 2184 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18545479 Data Recovery In a Multi-Device Storage System TRUONG, LOAN 2114 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Dec 19, 2023
18514539 Data Loss Management for Cloud-Based Storage Systems GIARDINO JR, MARK A 2135 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2023
18480200 Application-Driven Storage Workload Optimization KAZIMI, HANI M 3691 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 03, 2023
18333494 Variable Redundancy For Metadata In Storage Systems CARDWELL, ERIC 2139 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2023
18311104 Optimizing I/O For Client Devices Using Different Computing Resources Of A Storage System SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 2137 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending May 02, 2023
18192335 Managing Correlated Outages in a Dispersed Storage Network DARE, RYAN A 2132 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2023
17816928 Selecting a Processing Unit Based on a Data Type of an Access Request THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 02, 2022
17877102 Managing Error Recovery Data in a Dispersed Storage Network DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P 2166 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 29, 2022
17712841 MAPPING IN A STORAGE SYSTEM WASSUM, LUKE S 3992 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 04, 2022
17514702 Snapshot-Based Hydration Of A Cloud-Based Storage System LIN, ALLEN S 2153 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 29, 2021
17501391 Configuring And Maintaining An Environment Using Configuration Templates CAO, DIEM K 2196 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 14, 2021
17487208 Providing Data Services During Migration BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN 2168 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Sep 28, 2021
16907514 USING DATA CHARACTERISTICS TO OPTIMIZE GROUPING OF SIMILAR DATA FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION LE, JESSICA N 2169 §103§112 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 22, 2020

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