Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rakuten Symphony Inc.

49 pending office actions • 36 art units • 46 examiners • 0 of 49 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 173 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

49
Total Pending OAs
27
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
7
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 48 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

25
Overdue
0
Due this week
11
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
7
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. 48 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (25)Due ≤ 30 days (11)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (7)

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.

3
Hard (6%)
43
Medium (88%)
3
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (6%)
§103 only42 (86%)
§102 only1 (2%)
§112 only3 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
34
Information Tech
69% of docket
8
Communications
16% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

490 h
Manual time on pending OAs
98 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
172 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AYERS, MICHAEL W 2 70.2% +53.7%
BLACKBURN, CONNOR IMIOLA 2
DASCOMB, JACOB D 2 85.7% +21.8%
BARKER, TODD L 1 75.5% +23.4%
NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T 1 90.2% +5.5%
MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 1 25.8% +25.4%
HUYNH, DUNG B 1 80.5% +27.8%
NGUYEN, HAI V 1 82.5% +4.2%
CHRISS, ANDREW W 1 72.3% +24.2%
PARK, CHONGSUH 1 59.8% +18.2%

Quick Wins (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18689990 UE C-DRX INTERWORKING WITH LAYER1/LAYER2 TRIGGERED MOBILITY HUYNH, DUNG B 16d overdue
18687478 IMPLEMENTING A DYNAMICAL ANTENNA ARRAY RECONFIGURATION IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK NGUYEN, HAI V 9d overdue
18607781 ETHERNET DATA PACKET CAPTURE AND FORMAT TO PCAP STRUCTURE AT RADIO UNIT NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T 35d
18250870 Kubernetes Integrated Chargeback and Limits Management DASCOMB, JACOB D 62d
18250879 Batch Upgrade Management In Network Computing Environments DASCOMB, JACOB D 83d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18639971 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (KPI) NORMALIZATION FOR A SMART SERVICE ANALYZER BARKER, TODD L 45d overdue
18008511 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONVERGED UTILITIES BILLING MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 31d overdue
17789926 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER DUNNING MOORE, REVA R 26d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18639971 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (KPI) NORMALIZATION FOR A SMART SERVICE ANALYZER BARKER, TODD L 45d overdue
18008511 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONVERGED UTILITIES BILLING MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 31d overdue
18689990 UE C-DRX INTERWORKING WITH LAYER1/LAYER2 TRIGGERED MOBILITY HUYNH, DUNG B 16d overdue
18681859 CANDIDATE CELL RECONFIGURATION OF DISTRIBUTED UNIT (DU) AND UE DUE TO INTRA-DU TO INTER-DU STATUS CHANGE CHRISS, ANDREW W 4d overdue
18580925 DATA TRANSFER MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK PARK, CHONGSUH 14d
18496022 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIO ACCESS NETWORK BASEBAND WORKLOAD TRAFFIC PATTERN AWARE SCHEDULING AYERS, MICHAEL W 56d
18250870 Kubernetes Integrated Chargeback and Limits Management DASCOMB, JACOB D 62d
18250708 Persistent Multi-Instance GPU Partitions AYERS, MICHAEL W 82d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2198 3
2449 2
2477 2
2469 2
2472 2
2195 2
2194 2
2436 2
2199 2
2419 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18639971 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (KPI) NORMALIZATION FOR A SMART SERVICE ANALYZER BARKER, TODD L 2449 §101 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2024
18607781 ETHERNET DATA PACKET CAPTURE AND FORMAT TO PCAP STRUCTURE AT RADIO UNIT NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T 2477 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Mar 18, 2024
18008511 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONVERGED UTILITIES BILLING MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 3628 §101 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18689990 UE C-DRX INTERWORKING WITH LAYER1/LAYER2 TRIGGERED MOBILITY HUYNH, DUNG B 2469 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18687478 IMPLEMENTING A DYNAMICAL ANTENNA ARRAY RECONFIGURATION IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK NGUYEN, HAI V 2649 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18681859 CANDIDATE CELL RECONFIGURATION OF DISTRIBUTED UNIT (DU) AND UE DUE TO INTRA-DU TO INTER-DU STATUS CHANGE CHRISS, ANDREW W 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18580925 DATA TRANSFER MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK PARK, CHONGSUH 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 19, 2024
17911594 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION OF NODES IN A SERVER CLUSTER CHEN, WUJI 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2024
18539492 DISASTER ALERT DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT FOR NETWORKS TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M 2469 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18540114 Increasing Spectral Efficiency in Beam-Forming Cellular Communication Networks OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18523883 IMPROVING USER EXPERIENCE IN MULTI-FREQUENCY LAYER DEPLOYMENTS USING FREQUENCY BAND COMBINATION PRIORITY VALUE PATEL, NIMESH 2642 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18496022 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIO ACCESS NETWORK BASEBAND WORKLOAD TRAFFIC PATTERN AWARE SCHEDULING AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18496028 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIO ACCESS NETWORK BASEBAND WORKLOAD POOL RESIZING BLACKBURN, CONNOR IMIOLA 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18496041 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIO ACCESS NETWORK BASEBAND WORKLOAD PARTITIONING BLACKBURN, CONNOR IMIOLA 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18495766 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FRONTHAUL TRAFFIC SHAPING GEBRE, MESSERET F 2445 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18263697 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR X2 INTERFACE LINK DETECTION AND CONSTRUCTION BENGZON, GREG C 2444 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18262729 KAFKA HEADER BASED SCHEMA MANAGEMENT IN ENCODING AND DECODING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (PM)/FAULT MANAGEMENT (FM) DATA MORRISON, JAY A 2151 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18259395 SECURE APPLICATION BRING-UP WITH HASH CREATION DURING SECURE DOWNLOAD APPARATUS AND METHOD CARNES, THOMAS A 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18038027 METHOD OF PHONE NUMBER RECOGNITION AND SYSTEM FOR USING THE SAME GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE 2662 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending May 22, 2023
18035966 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GEOLOCATION-BASED KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR VISUALIZATION IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SAMS, MATTHEW C 2646 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending May 09, 2023
18251831 Container Emulator for Kubernetes MOTTER, JORDAN SCOTT 2198 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 04, 2023
18251819 Agentless User Session Management for Remote Servers DO, KHANG D 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending May 04, 2023
18251067 Provisioning Tasks Across a Plurality of Clusters Based on Priority and Geographic Proximity NGUYEN, VAN H 2199 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Apr 28, 2023
18250879 Batch Upgrade Management In Network Computing Environments DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18250870 Kubernetes Integrated Chargeback and Limits Management DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18250702 Injecting Network Environmental Variables Into Containers KHAN, HASSAN ABDUR-RAHMAN 2451 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023
18250704 Fractional CPU Allocation BAKHIT, CHRISTIAN MAMDOUH 2199 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 26, 2023
18250708 Persistent Multi-Instance GPU Partitions AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18248243 CELL RESELECTION POLICY METHOD, SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM NELSON, RYA TEON 2419 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Apr 07, 2023
18247270 SYSTEM AND METHOD MEMORY OPTIMIZATION FOR MULTI-USER RLC CUMMING, WILLIAM D 2645 §112 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18192883 SYSTEM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT THROUGH AUTOMATED HARDWARE DECOMMISSIONING AND COMMISSIONING HUA, QUAN M 2645 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18247241 Security Scan With Backup NGUYEN, TRONG H 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
18245787 Kubernetes Namespace Snapshot, Backup, and Restore Functionality WU, TONY 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Mar 17, 2023
18023444 PREDICTING LOCATION OF UE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK AHSAN, UMAIR 2647 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Feb 27, 2023
18023243 REAL-TIME RAN INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE MOUTAOUAKIL, MOUNIR 2476 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18022653 NETWORK SERVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND NETWORK SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD KIM, DONG U 2197 §112 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2023
18041781 Software License Enforcement ZHANG, DUAN 3697 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18041568 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR MOBILE NETWORK EXPANSION USING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE BARRY, JUSTIN ARTHUR 2643 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2023
18020363 SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MANAGING INFORMATION IN MARKETPLACE LEVINE, ADAM L 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 08, 2023
18020327 WAKE-UP SIGNAL FRAME DESIGN LO, DIANE LEE 2466 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Feb 08, 2023
18018451 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RULE-BASED APPROVAL OF REQUEST RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 3626 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 27, 2023
18018251 MIMO PANEL GAIN CALIBRATION LEMA LEMOS, LUIS GUILLERMO 2419 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
18006982 Optimizing Processor Unit Frequency LEE, PHILIP C 2447 §103 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
18017806 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LONG-TERM COMPILATION AND RETRIEVAL OF PAST DATA IN NETWORK PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS RECEK, JASON D 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jan 24, 2023
18017568 CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF AN AUTOMATED TEST EQUIPMENT SYSTEM USING COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF SERVERS NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A 2858 §103 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2023
18005516 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK ENERGY SAVING BY TURNING OFF TRANSMIT CHAINS SEFCHECK, GREGORY B 2477 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jan 13, 2023
18012038 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING AN ACCESS TOKEN USING A DISTRIBUTED CACHE SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD 2432 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17917178 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SOCIAL PLATFORM INFORMATION PRE-PROCESSING SHORTER, RASHIDA R 3626 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2022
17789926 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER DUNNING MOORE, REVA R 3627 §101 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2022

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