Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Red Hat Inc.

80 pending office actions • 39 art units • 71 examiners • 0 of 80 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 241 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

80
Total Pending OAs
52
Non-Final OAs
25
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 79 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

42
Overdue
1
Due this week
24
Due this month
8
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 79 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (42)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (24)Due ≤ 60 days (8)Due later (4)

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.

6
Hard (8%)
68
Medium (85%)
0
Easy (0%)
6
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only6 (8%)
§103 only67 (84%)
§102 only1 (1%)
No statute on record6 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
73
Information Tech
91% of docket
2
Communications
2% of docket
2
Semiconductors
2% of docket
3
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.

800 h
Manual time on pending OAs
160 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
280 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HEADLY, MELISSA A 3 75.0% +40.1%
PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN 2 93.8% -3.9%
RAMPURIA, SATISH 2 88.9% +25.0%
GOORAY, MARK A 2 76.3% +62.1%
AYERS, MICHAEL W 2 70.2% +53.7%
DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA 2 72.7% +54.2%
TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 2 33.3% +100.0%
MAYE, AYUB A 2 57.7% +41.7%
CYGIEL, GARY W 1 76.1% +9.5%
RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 1 69.1% +38.2%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18307324 SECURE TRANSMISSION OF CONTENT UPDATES VIA QKD NETWORKS RAMPURIA, SATISH 9d overdue

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17685021 MANAGING ACCESS TO QUANTUM SERVICES IN QUANTUM COMPUTING DEVICES WAI, ERIC CHARLES 44d overdue
18486613 TEST METHOD VALIDATION USING QUANTUM ALGORITHMS LEE, PAUL D 19d overdue
18603089 COMMIT GENERATION IN CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION (CI) ENVIRONMENTS DAO, THUY CHAN 3d overdue
18643992 COMPILER PLUGIN FOR ENFORCING SAFETY AGREEMENTS RAMPURIA, SATISH 28d
18167382 BALANCING DATA PARTITIONS AMONG DYNAMIC SERVICES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT NANO, SARGON N 28d
18326797 INTRA-VEHICLE OVER-THE-AIR UPDATES INCORPORATING UPDATE COMPATIBILITY LUU, CUONG V 57d

Interview Candidates (16)

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
17873860 CONTAINER IMAGE MANAGEMENT TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 37d overdue
18240085 CONTEXT SWITCH REDUCTION FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE EXITS AYERS, MICHAEL W 36d overdue
18911054 DEDUPLICATION OF CONTAINER IMAGE FILES RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 19d overdue
18205146 PROFILING AND OPTIMIZATION OF COMPILER-GENERATED CODE DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA 18d overdue
18362617 RACE FREE VIRTUAL MACHINE SNAPSHOTS AYERS, MICHAEL W 10d overdue
18307324 SECURE TRANSMISSION OF CONTENT UPDATES VIA QKD NETWORKS RAMPURIA, SATISH 9d overdue
18069733 AUTOMATICALLY INJECTING SHIMS INTO RUNNING CONTAINERS TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 4d overdue
18145999 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING NEW DATA FOR USE BY AN APPLICATION IN RESPONSE TO A FORK OF A VIRTUAL MACHINE HEADLY, MELISSA A 5d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2197 8
2196 7
2193 6
2195 6
2199 5
2192 4
2191 4
2175 3
2436 3
2445 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18935262 SHARING NODE STORAGE RESOURCES WITH THE ENTIRE CLUSTER CYGIEL, GARY W 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2024
18911054 DEDUPLICATION OF CONTAINER IMAGE FILES RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2163 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2024
18906939 MONITORING ENERGY CONSUMPTION ASSOCIATED WITH TENANTS OF A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM USING TRACING PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN 2175 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Oct 04, 2024
18906704 FAILURE DETECTION FOR PACKET TRANSMISSION IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS NAOREEN, NAZIA 2458 Other Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2024
18884681 EMBEDDING SECURITY REQUIREMENTS IN CONTAINER IMAGES JEUDY, JOSNEL 2438 Other Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2024
18783023 DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING RESPONSE PARAMETERS OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL DURING AN INTERACTION WITH A USER SERROU, ABDELALI 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 24, 2024
18749033 DOMAIN AGNOSTIC SYSTEM CONFIGURATION PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN 2175 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18744881 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING AND MITIGATING RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH INSTALLING A SOFTWARE PACKAGE ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM DOAN, TAN 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18732142 FLEETWIDE SERVERLESS FUNCTIONAL SAFETY PROTECTION FOR HYBRID CLOUD INTEROPERABILITY PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2024
18668738 SIGNAL AUTHENTICATED ACTIVATION SINGH, HIRDEPAL 2631 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18666971 MODIFICATION OF CLUSTER CONFIGURATION SETTINGS USING MACHINE LEARNING BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D 2445 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending May 17, 2024
18660839 NODE FAILURE SOURCE DETECTION IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS USING MACHINE LEARNING CHOWDHURY, INDRANIL 2114 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18643992 COMPILER PLUGIN FOR ENFORCING SAFETY AGREEMENTS RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 23, 2024
18639683 TECHNIQUES FOR VALIDATING SAFETY AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE USING SBOMS GOORAY, MARK A 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 18, 2024
18623231 AUTOMATED DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION OF PACKAGE CHANGES FOR SOFTWARE UPDATES IN A COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT BUI, HANH THI MINH 2192 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 01, 2024
18618115 ERROR CODE GENERATION FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATION EXECUTIONS WHEATON, BRADFORD F 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18606037 CONTROLLING DEPLOYMENT OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS BY SOFTWARE EXTENSIONS HURUY, FEVEN HABTEMARIAM 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18603089 COMMIT GENERATION IN CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION (CI) ENVIRONMENTS DAO, THUY CHAN 2192 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18597262 QUANTUM SERVICE VERSION REQUEST ROUTING DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18595855 TECHNIQUES FOR SUPPORTING CONTENT CREATION IN DEVELOPER ENVIRONMENTS NGUYEN, PHILLIP H 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18581152 APPLICATION OPTIMIZATION THROUGH CONTAINER IMAGE WASM CONVERSION MORRISON, JAY A 2151 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Feb 19, 2024
18442315 AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF A TARGET SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SAFETY REQUIREMENTS VU, TUAN A 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18407704 OVERLAY CONTAINER STORAGE DRIVER FOR MICROSERVICE WORKLOADS AQUINO, WYNUEL S 2199 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2024
18540285 OBJECT SIZE ANNOTATIONS FOR MEMORY SAFETY APONTE, FRANCISCO JAVIER 2151 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18538257 UPGRADE OF DISTRIBUTED DATA GRID WITH NO STATE TRANSFER MENDEL, JULIAN SCOTT 2133 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Dec 13, 2023
18520890 DEPLOYING FUNCTIONAL SAFETY TESTING ENVIRONMENTS FOR A TEST SUITE AGUILERA, TODD 2192 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2023
18520296 AUTOMATED OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) INSTALLER PRE-BOOTING RAHMAN, FAHMIDA 2175 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18507440 DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNITS FOR VECTORIZED OPERATIONS PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW 2183 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18388675 SAFETY COMPLIANCE FOR VIRTUALIZED AUTOMOTIVE COMPUTING TOLENTINO, RODERICK 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18502529 AUTOMATED DISTRIBUTION OF PROCESSING NODES OF A RULES-BASED APPLICATION ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPUTE INSTANCES SWIFT, CHARLES M 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2023
18493210 AUTOMATED DISTRIBUTION OF PROCESSING NODES OF A RULES-BASED APPLICATION ACROSS A CLUSTER OF COMPUTING DEVICES KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18486613 TEST METHOD VALIDATION USING QUANTUM ALGORITHMS LEE, PAUL D 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18470928 CLAIM CHECK MECHANISM FOR A MESSAGE PAYLOAD IN AN ENTERPRISE MESSAGING SYSTEM MCBETH, WILLIAM C 2449 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18463828 SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION FOR CONTAINERIZED INSTANCES NGUYEN, BRANDON A 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18242102 THERMAL THROTTLING TO REGULATE VIRTUAL PROCESSING DEVICE USAGE KIM, DONG U 2197 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2023
18240085 CONTEXT SWITCH REDUCTION FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE EXITS AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2023
18240172 MACHINE STATE RECORDER FOR SOFTWARE DIAGNOSTICS GOORAY, MARK A 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18449459 TECHNIQUES FOR TASK AUTOMATION UTILIZING VERSION CONTROL LANE, JOSEPH MAXEN 2196 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2023
18362617 RACE FREE VIRTUAL MACHINE SNAPSHOTS AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18362648 EFFICIENT INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) FOR NESTED VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH MEMORY OVERCOMMIT BLACKBURN, CONNOR IMIOLA 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18216876 AUTOMATIC REBUILD OF ARTIFACTS WITH CODE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18216130 STATE-AWARE CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION PAN, HANG 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jun 29, 2023
18341574 PULL BASED INNER-LOOP CODE DEPLOYMENT WEI, ZENGPU 2197 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2023
18334852 DYNAMIC ROUTING OF APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) CALLS TO A CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING VIRTUAL MACHINE DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
18332035 META-OPERATORS FOR MANAGING OPERATOR GROUPS SUN, ANDREW NMN 2195 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 09, 2023
18205146 PROFILING AND OPTIMIZATION OF COMPILER-GENERATED CODE DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA 2191 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18326797 INTRA-VEHICLE OVER-THE-AIR UPDATES INCORPORATING UPDATE COMPATIBILITY LUU, CUONG V 2192 §101 Final Rejection 57d Pending May 31, 2023
18322315 COPY-ON-WRITE FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH ENCRYPTED STORAGE HEADLY, MELISSA A 2197 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending May 23, 2023
18307324 SECURE TRANSMISSION OF CONTENT UPDATES VIA QKD NETWORKS RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023
18306698 USING VIRTUAL MACHINE PRIVILEGE LEVELS TO CONTROL WRITE ACCESS TO KERNEL MEMORY IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE AKBARI, FARAZ TIMA 2196 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 25, 2023
18305048 TECHNIQUES FOR COOPERATIVE HOST/GUEST NETWORKING FAAL, BABOUCARR 2138 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023
18135923 Asynchronous Caching for Stateful Applications PAULINO, LENIN 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Apr 18, 2023
18185503 MULTI-RUNTIME WORKLOAD FRAMEWORK LU, KEVIN X 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 17, 2023
18176191 Zero Trust Support for Secure Networks Via Modified Virtual Private Network JOHNSON, CARLTON 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18176340 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF MANAGING HYPERVISOR EFFICIENCY AND UPTIME HEADLY, MELISSA A 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 28, 2023
18175800 DYNAMIC QUANTUM INSTRUCTION FILE CUSTOMIZATION BAKER, EZRA JAMES 2126 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18167382 BALANCING DATA PARTITIONS AMONG DYNAMIC SERVICES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT NANO, SARGON N 2443 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending Feb 10, 2023
18157501 INITIATING EXECUTABLE CONTAINERS IN TRUSTED EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS KAWSAR, ABDULLAH AL 2127 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 20, 2023
18091586 DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE AUTOSCALING FOR OBJECT STORAGE NGUYEN, AN-AN NGOC 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 30, 2022
18145999 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING NEW DATA FOR USE BY AN APPLICATION IN RESPONSE TO A FORK OF A VIRTUAL MACHINE HEADLY, MELISSA A 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Dec 23, 2022
18069733 AUTOMATICALLY INJECTING SHIMS INTO RUNNING CONTAINERS TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
18085069 ROUTING FOR DATA GRID IN A COMPUTING CLUSTER HU, SELINA ELISA 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 20, 2022
18080535 AUTOMATED POLICY COMPLIANCE CRANDALL, RICHARD W. 3619 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Dec 13, 2022
18073196 SUPERDENSE NETWORK LINK OPTIMISER TO ADDRESS TRAFFIC PEAKS XIA, XUYANG 2143 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 01, 2022
17987688 TRANSFORMING CONTAINER IMAGES INTO CONFIDENTIAL WORKLOADS LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2022
17976951 RESOURCE ACCESS REQUEST HANDLING FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEMS ESPANA, CARLOS ALBERTO 2199 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Oct 31, 2022
17972837 COUNTERFACTUAL BACKGROUND GENERATOR COULSON, JESSE CHEN 2122 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2022
17970525 QUANTUM-CLASSICAL CLUSTER CREATION VIA CLUSTER MANAGEMENT SERVICE RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Oct 20, 2022
17948824 VOICE CALL IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION BASED ON APPLICATION USAGE KIM, TAE K 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2022
17898564 UNIKERNELS FOR PRIVATE/PUBLIC KEY DISTRIBUTION MAYE, AYUB A 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 30, 2022
17898689 PROTECTIONS AGAINST BROWSER-IN-BROWSER ATTACKS MAYE, AYUB A 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 30, 2022
17874605 QUANTUM COMPUTING NETWORK WITH PHYSICAL MESH SERVICE GOLAN, MATTHEW BRYCE 2123 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jul 27, 2022
17873860 CONTAINER IMAGE MANAGEMENT TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2022
17858947 GIT-BASED DELTA RPM UNG, LANNY N 2197 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2022
17702583 LAYERED OPERATING SYSTEM VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2022
17685021 MANAGING ACCESS TO QUANTUM SERVICES IN QUANTUM COMPUTING DEVICES WAI, ERIC CHARLES 2195 §101 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2022
17592622 MALICIOUS PACKET FILTERING IN A VIRTUALIZATION SYSTEM LONG, EDWARD X 2439 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Feb 04, 2022
17560220 DETERMINING NAVIGATION ROUTE BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN 3665 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Dec 22, 2021
17487790 QUANTUM DATA AND STATE SYNCHRONIZATION LIN, ARIC 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2021
15819769 JOB SCHEDULER IMPLEMENTATION BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR JAYAKUMAR, CHAITANYA R 2128 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2017

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