Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rakuten Mobile Inc.

45 pending office actions • 35 art units • 45 examiners • 0 of 45 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 126 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

45
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 43 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

25
Overdue
3
Due this week
10
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 43 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (25)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (2)

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.

1
Hard (2%)
43
Medium (96%)
1
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§103 only39 (87%)
§102 only4 (9%)
§112 only1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
36
Information Tech
80% of docket
7
Communications
16% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
4% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

450 h
Manual time on pending OAs
90 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
158 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1 85.4% +14.0%
BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 1 84.4% +5.1%
DENNISON, JERRY B 1 72.9% +15.7%
ABDULLAEV, ERKIN SHAVKATOVICH 1 83.3% +25.0%
MUSA, ABDELNABI O 1 83.9% +21.2%
SOE, KYAW Z 1 89.6% +9.6%
BHATTI, HASHIM S 1 86.1% +6.2%
TRAN, PHUC H 1 91.6% +2.4%
YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 1 76.6% +22.1%
CHEN, WUJI 1 71.4% +37.9%

Quick Wins (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18577318 PROVISION OF DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION CELL IN ACCORDANCE WITH INSUFFICIENT COMMUNICATION QUALITY TRAN, PHUC H 30d overdue
18684837 HANDOVER CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION DEVICE IN AT LEAST TWO LAYERS ABDULLAEV, ERKIN SHAVKATOVICH 26d overdue
18580438 INTERFERENCE CONTROL CONCERNING DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION CELL SOE, KYAW Z 19d overdue
18959616 LOG ANALYSIS WHEN FAILURE OCCURS IN VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 3d overdue
18682022 SETTING OF COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROCEDURE CONCERNING COMMUNICATION CONTROL MODEL MUSA, ABDELNABI O 7d
18579721 RECONFIGURATION OF COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT OF O-RU BHATTI, HASHIM S 9d
18692403 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING WRITING CONFIGURATION CHANGES IN A NON-REAL-TIME RADIO ACCESS NETWORK INTELLIGENCE CONTROLLER (NRT-RIC) ARCHITECTURE WITHIN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 12d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18568843 REPLACE SYSTEM AND REPLACE METHOD WEI, ZENGPU 25d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18684837 HANDOVER CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION DEVICE IN AT LEAST TWO LAYERS ABDULLAEV, ERKIN SHAVKATOVICH 26d overdue
18959616 LOG ANALYSIS WHEN FAILURE OCCURS IN VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 3d overdue
18574307 REPLACEMENT OF UNSTABLE APPLICATION YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 3d overdue
18682022 SETTING OF COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROCEDURE CONCERNING COMMUNICATION CONTROL MODEL MUSA, ABDELNABI O 7d
18645516 IMPACT-DRIVEN MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE REQUESTS IN MOBILE NETWORK DENNISON, JERRY B 13d
18572783 EXECUTION INITIATION CONTROL OF DETERMINATION PROCESS TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT TO EXECUTE ACTION ON ELEMENT INCLUDED IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CHEN, WUJI 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2648 2
2472 2
2471 2
2449 2
2474 2
2197 2
2453 2
2478 2
2458 2
2462 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18959616 LOG ANALYSIS WHEN FAILURE OCCURS IN VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 2441 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 26, 2024
18692403 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING WRITING CONFIGURATION CHANGES IN A NON-REAL-TIME RADIO ACCESS NETWORK INTELLIGENCE CONTROLLER (NRT-RIC) ARCHITECTURE WITHIN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 2457 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18645516 IMPACT-DRIVEN MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE REQUESTS IN MOBILE NETWORK DENNISON, JERRY B 2409 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Apr 25, 2024
18684837 HANDOVER CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION DEVICE IN AT LEAST TWO LAYERS ABDULLAEV, ERKIN SHAVKATOVICH 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2024
18682022 SETTING OF COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROCEDURE CONCERNING COMMUNICATION CONTROL MODEL MUSA, ABDELNABI O 2472 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18580438 INTERFERENCE CONTROL CONCERNING DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION CELL SOE, KYAW Z 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2024
18579721 RECONFIGURATION OF COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT OF O-RU BHATTI, HASHIM S 2475 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 16, 2024
18577318 PROVISION OF DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION CELL IN ACCORDANCE WITH INSUFFICIENT COMMUNICATION QUALITY TRAN, PHUC H 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18574307 REPLACEMENT OF UNSTABLE APPLICATION YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18572783 EXECUTION INITIATION CONTROL OF DETERMINATION PROCESS TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT TO EXECUTE ACTION ON ELEMENT INCLUDED IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CHEN, WUJI 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18572782 EASING RESTRICTION ON ROAMING CONNECTION DURING NORMAL TIME LE, LANA N 2648 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 21, 2023
18572184 ESTIMATING CONGESTION BASED ON BOTH COMMUNICATION AND NON-COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVES BELUR, DEEPA 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18571724 RECOGNITION OF SENSING CAPABILITY OF SENSOR GROUP IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK THIER, MICHAEL 2474 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2023
18570068 HANDLING DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT SCHEMES FOR COMMUNICATION CONTROL MODEL NOWLIN, ERIC 2474 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18569762 EMERGENCY INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION BY MOVING STATION LEE, SIU M 2632 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Dec 13, 2023
18568843 REPLACE SYSTEM AND REPLACE METHOD WEI, ZENGPU 2197 §101 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2023
17912180 CONTROL PLANE TRANSPORT SLICE IDENTIFIER FOR END-TO-END 5G NETWORK SLICING BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2419 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2023
18562169 MANAGEMENT OF INTEROPERABILITY TEST PROFILE IN M-PLANE OF O-RAN BAROT, BHARAT 2453 §102 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18560399 CUSTOMER PREMISE EQUIPMENT (CPE) WAN MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (CWMP) CELLULAR DIAGNOSTICS DIVITO, WALTER J 2465 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18288220 IMPROVEMENT OF SERVICE CONTINUITY IN DIFFERENT NETWORKS CHOUDHURY, FAISAL 2478 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18270536 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR EVALUATING NETWORK CONDITIONS HUDA, MUHAMMAD AINUL 2467 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18259778 CONTROL OF CLOSED NETWORK USING NETWORK SLICE CARDONE, JASON D 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jun 29, 2023
18250980 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE NON-EXPIRING URLS REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2023
18248690 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT TESTING OF CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS RUSIN, KAYO LISA 2114 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
18247646 EDGE-MASKING GUIDED NODE PRUNING BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18027011 GRAPH DATABASE REPORTING WHITAKER, ANDREW B 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18026747 GROUPING OF A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES FOR ENERGY SAVING MODE NGUYEN, TU X 2642 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Mar 16, 2023
18044079 JOB CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF HEADLY, MELISSA A 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Mar 06, 2023
18012713 CENTRALIZED SERVICE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM BASED ON A TICKET HIERARCHY FRAMEWORK HO, THOMAS Y 3624 §102 Non-Final OA 131d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022
18012353 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MANAGING DATA PACKETS BETWEEN NETWORK NODES CHAKRAVARTHY, LATHA 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022
18012333 AUTOMATED NETWORK INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM NGUYEN, VINH 2453 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022
18012039 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI/ML WORKFLOW SERVICES AND CONSUMPTION IN O-RAN BY SMO NON-RT RIC LOUIS-FILS, NICOLE M 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Dec 21, 2022
17999559 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGN OF A NETWORK SLICE GARCIA-CHING, KARINA J 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022
17997925 EXPANSION CONTROL WITH A MOVING RELAY STATION DENG, JIA H 2462 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2022
17921662 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE HANDOVER ON A MOBILE NETWORK WHITAKER, JUSTIN MICHAEL 2415 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 27, 2022
17996619 COMMUNICATION CONTROL BASED ON SERVICE QUALITY DETERMINATION AJAYI, JOEL 2646 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Oct 20, 2022
17918838 MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM NGUYEN, THUONG 2416 §103 Final Rejection 191d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2022
17917239 DETERMINING COMMUNICATION RATIO BASED ON NON-TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION QUALITY INFORMATION DEAN, RAYMOND S 2645 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2022
17916797 CONNECTABILITY JUDGMENT FOR TERRESTRIAL AND NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS YEA, JI-HAE P 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2022
17906746 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD SIDDIQUEE, INTEKHAAB AALAM 2462 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 19, 2022
17910019 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE RACH FLOW OPTIMIZATION SAMLUK, JESSE PAUL 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 08, 2022
17800887 SERVER APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD WHEATON, BRADFORD F 2193 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022
17799183 TRANSLATION MATRIX USER PORTAL TO SIMPLIFY ONBOARDING SLICES SCIACCA, SCOTT M 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2022
17758030 NETWORK DEVICE TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD HACKENBERG, RACHEL J 2454 §103 Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2022
17757772 COMPUTERIZED NETWORK CHANGES MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS TALIOUA, ABDELBASST 2445 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2022

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