Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
96 pending office actions • 33 art units • 80 examiners • 0 of 96 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 169 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pure Storage Inc. is managing 96 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 80 distinct examiners, which suggests a high degree of variety in the examiner perspectives the company must address. The prosecution activity is distributed across 33 distinct art units, reflecting a broad range of technical challenges and administrative environments within the computing sector.
MENG, JAU SHYA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 4 busiest examiner pending actions. While this is the highest number of cases assigned to one person, it represents a portion of the 96 pending office actions. The involvement of 80 distinct examiners across 33 distinct art units indicates that the company's patent strategy must be flexible enough to handle many different reviewers. Practitioners should focus on the specific trends within each of the 33 distinct art units to effectively manage the 96 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 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. 23 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 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 12 (12%) |
| §103 only | 45 (47%) |
| §102 only | 6 (6%) |
| §112 only | 3 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 20 (21%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENG, JAU SHYA | 4 | 79.3% | +33.9% |
| SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J | 3 | 77.4% | +12.9% |
| FRANKLIN, RICHARD B | 3 | 83.4% | +0.6% |
| PARK, GRACE A | 2 | 76.3% | +17.6% |
| CHOE, YONG J | 2 | 92.3% | +4.5% |
| MOBIN, HASANUL | 2 | 75.3% | +38.8% |
| CARDWELL, ERIC | 2 | 88.0% | +11.7% |
| KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES | 2 | 79.4% | +24.0% |
| DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY | 2 | 84.0% | +10.5% |
| HOANG, SON T | 2 | 83.7% | +34.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| 18974112 | Replicating Multiple Storage Systems Utilizing Coordinated Snapshots | HOANG, SON T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18817926 | MULTIPLE THRESHOLDS FOR MANAGING FLASH MEMORY | ALSHACK, OSMAN M | 60d |
| 19423524 | FLASH SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LOG ANALYTICS AND ANOMALY DETECTION | PARK, GRACE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 19010790 | Pod-Level Snapshot Replication | HOANG, SON T | 36d |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2139 | 8 |
| 2137 | 6 |
| 2168 | 5 |
| 2181 | 5 |
| 2184 | 4 |
| 2114 | 3 |
| 2159 | 3 |
| 2138 | 3 |
| 2112 | 3 |
| 2169 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 19287505 | REUSE OF TRANSFORMED DATASETS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PIPELINES VIA FINGERPRINT-BASED SELECTION | SHIN, KYUNG H | — | §103 | 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 |
| 19287273 | POLICY-BASED OBJECT CACHING IN MULTITENANT STORAGE SYSTEMS BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS | CHOE, YONG J | — | §102 | 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 |
| 19237174 | Coordinating Snapshot Replication Using Metadata Mapping | SPIELER, WILLIAM | 2159 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 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 |
| 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 |
| 19022129 | VOLTAGE THRESHOLD ADJUSTMENT OF STORAGE DEVICES BY AN EXTERNAL CONTROLLER | ALROBAIE, KHAMDAN N | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 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 |
| 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 |
| 18950945 | Security Policy Analysis And Updating Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) | SARKER, SANCHIT K | 2495 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18951383 | PROTECTING AGAINST LATENT ERRORS USING INTRA-DEVICE PROTECTION DATA | PERRY, VICTOR NICHOLAS | 2111 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPure Storage Inc. has 96 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 33 art units and 80 examiners.
Jau Shya Meng has the most, with 4 of Pure Storage Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.