Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Rakuten Symphony Inc.

36 pending office actions • 30 art units • 35 examiners • 0 of 36 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 165 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

36
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
14
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (5)

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.

12
Hard (33%)
23
Medium (64%)
1
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (8%)
§101 + other3 (8%)
§103 only23 (64%)
§112 only1 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
26
Information Tech
72% of docket
4
Communications
11% of docket
1
Semiconductors
3% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
2
Business / Other
6% 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.

360 h
Manual time on pending OAs
72 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
126 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 2 20.0% +75.0%
DONABED, NINOS 1 75.4% +66.3%
KASSIM, KHALED M 1 70.3% +38.3%
SUN, CHARLIE 1 91.3% +11.6%
BARKER, TODD L 1 75.6% +23.3%
RIVAS, SALVADOR E 1 81.6% +22.6%
MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 1 25.2% +24.6%
NAWAZ, ASAD M 1 50.0% +44.5%
LI, SHI K 1 73.5% +5.2%
PARK, CHONGSUH 1 59.8% +18.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18646156 Kernel Optimization in Radio Access Network SUN, CHARLIE
18698491 TECHNIQUES FOR DEFINING BEAM ASSOCIATION FOR EFFICIENT BEAM IDENTIFICATION AND PREDICTION RIVAS, SALVADOR E

Hard Cases (14)

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
18012038 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING AN ACCESS TOKEN USING A DISTRIBUTED CACHE SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD 73d overdue
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
18038027 METHOD OF PHONE NUMBER RECOGNITION AND SYSTEM FOR USING THE SAME GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE 15d overdue
18263697 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR X2 INTERFACE LINK DETECTION AND CONSTRUCTION BENGZON, GREG C 4d overdue
18250879 Batch Upgrade Management In Network Computing Environments DASCOMB, JACOB D 83d
18904175 PROCESSING OF NARROW BAND-INTERNET OF THINGS (NB-IoT) PHYSICAL RESOURCE BLOCK (PRB) DONABED, NINOS

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18580925 DATA TRANSFER MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK PARK, CHONGSUH 14d
18904175 PROCESSING OF NARROW BAND-INTERNET OF THINGS (NB-IoT) PHYSICAL RESOURCE BLOCK (PRB) DONABED, NINOS
18846662 TIMING ADVANCE (TA) ACQUISITION PROCEDURE BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT (UE) CAPABILITY IN WIRELESS NETWORKS KASSIM, KHALED M
18646156 Kernel Optimization in Radio Access Network SUN, CHARLIE
18698491 TECHNIQUES FOR DEFINING BEAM ASSOCIATION FOR EFFICIENT BEAM IDENTIFICATION AND PREDICTION RIVAS, SALVADOR E
18689399 SUPPORTING MULTIPLE BEARERS FOR UE WITH LIMITED LCIDs NAWAZ, ASAD M

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2478 2
2436 2
2643 2
2142 2
2475 1
2449 1
2413 1
3628 1
2463 1
2635 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18904175 PROCESSING OF NARROW BAND-INTERNET OF THINGS (NB-IoT) PHYSICAL RESOURCE BLOCK (PRB) DONABED, NINOS §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2024
18846662 TIMING ADVANCE (TA) ACQUISITION PROCEDURE BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT (UE) CAPABILITY IN WIRELESS NETWORKS KASSIM, KHALED M 2475 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18646156 Kernel Optimization in Radio Access Network SUN, CHARLIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 25, 2024
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
18698491 TECHNIQUES FOR DEFINING BEAM ASSOCIATION FOR EFFICIENT BEAM IDENTIFICATION AND PREDICTION RIVAS, SALVADOR E 2413 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2024
18008511 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONVERGED UTILITIES BILLING MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 3628 §101§112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18689399 SUPPORTING MULTIPLE BEARERS FOR UE WITH LIMITED LCIDs NAWAZ, ASAD M 2463 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2024
18683421 Determinsticly Parsable Reportiong of Radio Access Network Radio Unit Performance Information LI, SHI K 2635 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 13, 2024
18580925 DATA TRANSFER MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK PARK, CHONGSUH 2478 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jan 19, 2024
17802586 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR BILL MANAGEMENT USING VIRTUAL ACCOUNTS GART, MATTHEW S 3696 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 04, 2024
18541011 NEIGHBOR DATA MANAGEMENT TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 2446 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 15, 2023
18540114 Increasing Spectral Efficiency in Beam-Forming Cellular Communication Networks OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18388530 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICE BASED MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ENTITY SELECTION USING ENHANCED NAS NODE SELECTION FUNCTION (NNSF) ALGORITHM RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN 2471 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2023
18263697 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR X2 INTERFACE LINK DETECTION AND CONSTRUCTION BENGZON, GREG C 2444 §103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18271891 POLLUTION MONITORING USING INTEGRATED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION RODAK, LEE E 2858 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 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
18266727 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA USAGE REPORT IN A BEARER CONTEXT MODIFICATION REQUEST NGUYEN, THE HY 2478 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 12, 2023
18038027 METHOD OF PHONE NUMBER RECOGNITION AND SYSTEM FOR USING THE SAME GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE 2662 §102§103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending May 22, 2023
18251819 Agentless User Session Management for Remote Servers DO, KHANG D 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending May 04, 2023
18250879 Batch Upgrade Management In Network Computing Environments DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 §103§112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18250708 Persistent Multi-Instance GPU Partitions AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18029944 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO OPTIMIZE LATENCY FOR L1/L2 TRIGGERED MOBILITY PEI, PATRICK YIPAO 2473 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 03, 2023
18245787 Kubernetes Namespace Snapshot, Backup, and Restore Functionality WU, TONY 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Mar 17, 2023
18026852 ENHANCEMENTS TO CBRA AND CFRA L1/L2 TRIGGERED MOBILITY CAO, NAM PHUONG 2479 §112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 17, 2023
18043042 COMMON FILE ATTRIBUTE PROCESSING FOR ENHANCED LOADING TIME OF APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) FILES THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 2137 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 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
18020186 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AI/ML MODEL MONITORING DECKER, CASSANDRA L 2466 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2023
18018251 MIMO PANEL GAIN CALIBRATION LEMA LEMOS, LUIS GUILLERMO 2419 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
18005516 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK ENERGY SAVING BY TURNING OFF TRANSMIT CHAINS SEFCHECK, GREGORY B 2477 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Jan 13, 2023
18005112 DIGITAL TWIN FOR AI/ML TRAINING AND TESTING HAN, BYUNGKWON 2121 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 11, 2023
18012483 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING ABNORMAL ACTIVITY IN O-RAN NEAR REAL TIME RIC PLATFORM MAYE, AYUB A 2436 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2022
18012057 METHODS FOR DERIVING PERIODIC RAN NOTIFICATION AREA (RNA) UPDATE TIMER (T380) FOR RRC-INACTIVE UES MADANI, FARIDEH 2643 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 21, 2022
18012038 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING AN ACCESS TOKEN USING A DISTRIBUTED CACHE SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD 2432 §103§112 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
18010163 SYSTEM, METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR ENHANCED GRAPH-BASED NODE CLASSIFICATION MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 2142 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 13, 2022
17789926 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER DUNNING MOORE, REVA R 3627 §101 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2022
17580734 FEATURE IDENTIFICATION METHOD FOR TRAINING OF AI MODEL MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 2142 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 21, 2022

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