Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
1,994 pending office actions • 253 art units • 1005 examiners • 603 of 1,994 (30%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4,204 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qualcomm Incorporated has 2021 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The docket spans 1013 distinct examiners and 252 distinct art units, demonstrating broad allocation across examination personnel while retaining substantial recurrence within the art-unit structure. The scale supports organizational segmentation by technical group, prosecution stage, and examiner relationship rather than a single portfolio-wide workflow.
PARK, CHONGSUH is the busiest examiner, with 12 pending matters. That is a meaningful focal point for examiner-specific review, but the broader distribution requires parallel management across many other examination paths. Practitioners may benefit from shared claim-development standards, coordinated prior-art analysis, and escalation procedures for recurring art-unit issues, while preserving flexibility for individual examiner practice.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 433 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. 433 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 | 16 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 110 (6%) |
| §103 only | 1,044 (52%) |
| §102 only | 145 (7%) |
| §112 only | 31 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 18 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 8 (0%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 607 (30%) |
| No statute on record | 15 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAM, YEE F | 13 | 77.2% | +21.1% |
| OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 10 | 75.0% | +15.7% |
| CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | 10 | 83.3% | +24.0% |
| PARK, CHONGSUH | 10 | 59.8% | +18.2% |
| WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 10 | 63.6% | +14.7% |
| KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 9 | 55.8% | +11.6% |
| CHRISS, ANDREW W | 9 | 73.4% | +25.2% |
| MENSAH, PRINCE AKWASI | 8 | 77.8% | +17.4% |
| VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | 8 | 82.9% | +36.5% |
| CLAWSON, STEPHEN J | 8 | 79.4% | +18.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18441979 | Cell Discontinuous Transmission and Reception Control for Multiple Transmission Reception Points | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | 28d overdue |
| 18447060 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH POWER STATE TRANSITIONS | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | 27d |
| 18959253 | TIMER MANAGEMENT IN ENERGY EFFICIENT SCHEDULING | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | — |
| 18938052 | EXCHANGING LOCAL ADDRESS INFORMATION FOR PDU SETS OF A MEDIA COMMUNICATION SESSION | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | — |
| 18838509 | TECHNIQUES FOR TIME-DOMAIN CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION REPORTING RELATIVE TO A REFERENCE RESOURCE | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | — |
| 18768429 | BEAM SEARCH PROCEDURES FOR MULTIPLE SPATIAL STREAMS | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | — |
| 18674061 | MULTI-BAND BANDWIDTH PART (BWP) FOR A VIRTUAL CELL | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | — |
| 18654428 | MEASUREMENT SAMPLING BASED ON NETWORK ENTITY MOBILITY | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17964639 | NON-NUMERIC FEEDBACK TIMING INDICATORS FOR HARQ-ACK | POKRZYWA, JOSEPH R | 261d overdue |
| 18186805 | GENERATING A COMPOSITE IMAGE BASED ON REGIONS OF INTEREST | GARCIA, GABRIEL I | 216d overdue |
| 18454940 | UPSAMPLING FOR POINT CLOUD FEATURES | LEE, TOMMY D | 169d overdue |
| 18403183 | DEVICE INCLUDING ACTIVE AIR-MOVING DEVICE WITH POP-OUT MODE FOR IMPROVED COOLING AND RELATED METHODS | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 160d overdue |
| 18506831 | NETWORK RECOMMENDED SEAMLESS ROAMING | GAO, JING | 71d overdue |
| 18339529 | PROVIDING PHYSICAL REGISTER (PR) SWAP MEMORY RENAMING IN PROCESSOR-BASED DEVICES | LINDLOF, JOHN M | 49d overdue |
| 17648415 | CROSS-DOMAIN ADAPTIVE LEARNING | GIROUX, GEORGE | 46d overdue |
| 17995537 | PIGGYBACKING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (DCI) FOR SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING | SMITH, MARCUS | 44d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681027 | UCI MULTIPLEXING FOR SIMULTANEOUS PUSCH TRANSMISSION | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | 32d overdue |
| 18441979 | Cell Discontinuous Transmission and Reception Control for Multiple Transmission Reception Points | CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL | 28d overdue |
| 18169179 | POWER SAVINGS AND MULTI-SET INDICATION WITH SPS OCCASION FOR MULTI-PDSCH TRANSMISSIONS | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 15d overdue |
| 18495335 | TRIGGERING ESTIMATION OF NON-LINEAR CHARACTERISTICS OF A POWER AMPLIFIER | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 9d overdue |
| 18357969 | EFFICIENT SCHEME FOR SUPPRESSION OF BASE STATION NON-LINEARITY | CLAWSON, STEPHEN J | 2d overdue |
| 18052451 | INDICATION OF UPLINK TRANSMISSION PRECODING PARAMETER CHANGE | WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 6d |
| 18491664 | DYNAMIC INDICATIONS FOR PARTIAL UL SKIPPING | WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 7d |
| 18531435 | RESOURCE SCHEDULING FOR SPARSE NON-ORTHOGONAL TRANSMISSIONS | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2461 | 58 |
| 2472 | 57 |
| 2478 | 54 |
| 2411 | 54 |
| 2469 | 52 |
| 2476 | 48 |
| 2477 | 47 |
| 2465 | 41 |
| 2412 | 40 |
| 3648 | 39 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19409627 | MULTI-USER EXTENDED-REALITY CONTENT | SHARIFI-TAFRESHI, KOOSHA | 2628 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2025 |
| 19394801 | DETERMINING CORRECT LOCATION IN THE PRESENCE OF GNSS SPOOFING | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 19385063 | FALSE WAKEUP REDUCTION FOR FINGERPRINT SENSORS | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 2621 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19364913 | MULTI-CAPACITOR ENERGY HARVESTING | GUDORF, LAURA A | 2876 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19348069 | OVERLAPPED BLOCK MOTION COMPENSATION FOR VIDEO CODING | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | 2482 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19168725 | RENDERING MULTI-LEVEL IMAGE QUALITY IN MULTI-USER SPLIT XR SYSTEMS | KOHLMAN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2628 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19323981 | MOBILITY ENHANCEMENTS AND POWER SAVING FOR USER EQUIPMENT COMMUNICATION | SINKANTARAKORN, PAWARIS | 2469 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19323957 | GENERATING INTERPOLATED IMAGE DATA | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 2424 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19291197 | RESERVING A SECURE ADDRESS RANGE | PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 2138 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19286028 | DYNAMIC DIE-TO-DIE SERIAL LANE CONFIGURATION | RIAD, AMINE | 2113 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19270994 | TEMPLATE SELECTION FOR INTRA PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING | KIR, ALBERT | 2485 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19268716 | LOWER LAYER SECURITY FOR GROUPCAST COMMUNICATION | GADALLA, HANY S | 2493 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19267436 | MITIGATING THE EFFECTS OF ROGUE ACTORS IN VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE PERCEPTIVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | CORUM JR, WILLIAM A | 2433 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19146474 | HARDWARE WAKE FOR DISPLAY PANEL | AU, SCOTT D | 2624 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19261123 | NON-SEPARABLE TRANSFORM KERNEL SELECTION BASED ON PREDICTION TYPE IN VIDEO CODING | TARKO, ASMAMAW G | 2482 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19258185 | NN-BASED IN LOOP FILTER (ILF) ARCHITECTURES WITH REDUCED COMPLEXITY INPUT FEATURES EXTRACTION | PHAM, NAM D | 2487 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19145168 | HARDWARE-BASED DATA PROTECTION FOR REPLAY PROTECTED DATA | SONG, HOSUK | 2435 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19145165 | DATA SECURITY FOR REPLAY PROTECTED MEMORY BLOCK (RPMP) | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 2444 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19251742 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE USING A STREAMING MANIFEST INCLUDING A PROFILE INDICATION | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 2447 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19246171 | RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE, RIS, AIDED AND NON-RIS-AIDED SIGNAL TIMING | ALI, SHAWKAT M | 2633 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19240621 | HYBRID INTER BI-PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING | KIR, ALBERT | 2485 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19237729 | CAPABILITY FOR MULTIPLE BEAMFORMING CODEBOOKS | MALEK, LEILA | 2632 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19138061 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING FEATURES WITHIN IMAGES | PATTON, SPENCER D | 3661 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19232644 | MULTI-VECTOR RENAMING TO AVOID BANK WRITE CONFLICTS | HUISMAN, DAVID J | 2183 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19232159 | SYNCHRONIZING ENHANCED AUDIO TRANSPORTS WITH BACKWARD COMPATIBLE AUDIO TRANSPORTS | SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J | 2459 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19226954 | HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEM WITH INCREASED BANDWIDTH | KNAPP, JUSTIN R | 2112 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19225992 | LIMITED OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION FOR MATRIX INSTRUCTIONS | ALROBAYE, IDRISS N | 2181 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19221233 | SIGNALING SUB-PREDICTION UNIT MOTION VECTOR PREDICTOR | ABOUZAHRA, HESHAM K | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19217327 | CENTRALIZED BEAM DETERMINATION FOR FULL DUPLEX COMMUNICATIONS | PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | 2635 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19214784 | REFERENCE PICTURE SELECTION IN VIDEO CODING | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19206809 | POLAR CODING TECHNIQUES FOR HIGHER-ORDER MODULATION | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | 2112 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19206465 | FAST CONVERGING LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK TECHNIQUES | FEATHERSTONE, MARK D | 2111 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19128928 | MANAGING A DATA STREAMING SESSION | WALSH, JOHN B | 2451 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19195261 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH DYNAMIC UL GAIN CORRECTION | AGHDAM, FRESHTEH N | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19193343 | BLOCK VECTOR DIFFERENCE BINARIZATION AND CODING IN VIDEO CODING | JIANG, ZAIHAN | 2488 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19123136 | AUTOMATED ECHO CONTROL | SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19184665 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING POLAR CODES | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | 2112 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19175787 | AUTHENTICATING AVATAR DATA DURING AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) COMMUNICATION SESSIONS | JHAVERI, JAYESH M | 2433 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19175694 | CONTROLLING REMOTE ANTENNA SYSTEMS | LEE, WILSON | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19174747 | DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL GROUPING FOR FULL DUPLEX WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | LE, BRIAN T | 2479 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19174146 | ADAPTIVE COST FUNCTION SELECTION IN MERGE MODE IN VIDEO CODING | LEE, JIMMY S | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19171928 | MERGING INTRA PREDICTION DATA FOR VIDEO CODING | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | 2485 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19169616 | UPLINK AND DOWNLINK SPATIAL DIRECTION INDICATION DURING RANDOM ACCESS | NASSER, JAWAD J | 2461 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19118249 | DYNAMIC, LOCALIZED SCREEN INTENSITY REDUCTION FOR UNDER-DISPLAY AMBIENT LIGHT SENSOR | CHOWDHURY, AFROZA Y | 2628 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19098675 | MAPPING NETWORKED DEVICES | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 2685 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19093654 | DETECTION OF VIOLATIONS AND POTENTIAL ACTIONS FOR AERIAL DEVICES | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 2689 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19091308 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-NATIVE FLOW-TO-BEARER MAPPING | ANYAN, BARBARA BURGESS | 2457 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19115172 | DEVICE INTERACTIONS FOR SMART RETAIL APPLICATIONS | POND, ROBERT M | 3688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19088805 | DDR FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT IN CHIPLET-BASED SYSTEM | OTTO, ALAN | 2132 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19088423 | PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY (PIM) BASED MEMORY SCHEDULING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONCURRENT TRANSACTIONS | LI, SIDNEY | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialQualcomm Incorporated has 1,994 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 253 art units and 1005 examiners.
Yee F Lam has the most, with 13 of Qualcomm Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
