Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 10, 2026

Roku Inc.

Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications

68 pending office actions • 32 art units • 61 examiners • 0 of 68 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 135 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

68
Total Pending OAs
47
Non-Final OAs
20
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (1)

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.

25
Hard (37%)
33
Medium (49%)
9
Easy (13%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (3%)
§101 + other11 (16%)
§103 only29 (43%)
§102 only2 (3%)
§112 only1 (1%)
Double-patenting only8 (12%)
Double-patenting + other2 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)12 (18%)
No statute on record1 (1%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
29
Information Tech
43% of docket
10
Communications
15% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
24
Business / Other
35% 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.

680 h
Manual time on pending OAs
136 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
238 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FAN, HUA 3 69.8% +21.2%
CASTRO, ALFONSO 3 51.0% +19.4%
ANYA, CHARLES E 2 81.7% +32.9%
SHAH, SAYED MUNEER 2 — —
MENGISTU, TEWODROS E 2 49.7% +30.7%
BANTAMOI, ANTHONY 1 74.7% +29.7%
KANG, TIMOTHY J 1 45.5% +27.0%
BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O 1 63.0% +23.8%
LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 1 44.6% +23.2%
LE, RONG 1 68.4% +29.5%

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
18496459 Local Area Network System with Machine Learning-Based Task Offload Feature ANYA, CHARLES E 5d
18830189 CLOUD COMPUTATION FOR APPLICATIONS ON MEDIA DEVICES ANYA, CHARLES E —

Hard Cases (25)

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
18680112 DATA EXTRACTION AND ENHANCEMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 3d overdue
18079204 PLACING ORDERS FOR A SUBJECT INCLUDED IN A MULTIMEDIA SEGMENT GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA 55d
19276957 Dynamic Collection and Reporting of Customer Premises Context Information in Response to Predicted Emergency Event BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O —
19261126 VOICE CONTROL FOR SETTINGS ON TV OR OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N —
19224575 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC VIDEO ADVERTISEMENTS ADAMS, EILEEN M —
19082855 RENDERING A DYNAMIC ENDEMIC BANNER ON STREAMING PLATFORMS USING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS AND CONTENT AFFINITY MODELING NGUYEN, THUY N —
19037613 POWER SHARING FOR SMART DOORBELL HEAD AND CHIME CONTROLLER GAUTHIER, GERALD —
19027714 AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF DISPLAY DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY ZAMAN, FAISAL M —

Interview Candidates (15)

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
18958959 ADAPTIVE AUDIO BITRATE SELECTION FAN, HUA 9d overdue
18496459 Local Area Network System with Machine Learning-Based Task Offload Feature ANYA, CHARLES E 5d
19396191 CUSTOMIZATION OF MEDIA CONTENT WITH AN ANIMATED BACKGROUND BANTAMOI, ANTHONY —
19374802 VIDEO INTERSTITIAL EXPERIENCE OPTIMIZED FOR OVER THE TOP HOMESCREEN USER EXPERIENCE FAN, HUA —
19311975 Coordinated Processing of Ordering Based on Media Content Presentation KANG, TIMOTHY J —
19276957 Dynamic Collection and Reporting of Customer Premises Context Information in Response to Predicted Emergency Event BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O —
19261126 VOICE CONTROL FOR SETTINGS ON TV OR OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N —
19261363 AUDIO DUPLICATION AND REDIRECTION SYSTEM LE, RONG —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2421 4
2422 3
2426 3
2425 3
2484 2
2691 2
2659 2
2127 2
2494 1
2161 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19396191 CUSTOMIZATION OF MEDIA CONTENT WITH AN ANIMATED BACKGROUND BANTAMOI, ANTHONY 2422 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2025
19374802 VIDEO INTERSTITIAL EXPERIENCE OPTIMIZED FOR OVER THE TOP HOMESCREEN USER EXPERIENCE FAN, HUA 2426 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2025
19311975 Coordinated Processing of Ordering Based on Media Content Presentation KANG, TIMOTHY J — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2025
19276957 Dynamic Collection and Reporting of Customer Premises Context Information in Response to Predicted Emergency Event BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O — §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 22, 2025
19261126 VOICE CONTROL FOR SETTINGS ON TV OR OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 2425 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 07, 2025
19261363 AUDIO DUPLICATION AND REDIRECTION SYSTEM LE, RONG — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 07, 2025
19227699 Dynamic Control of Media-Content Presentation Based on User Presence and/or User Profile SHELEHEDA, JAMES R — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 04, 2025
19224575 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC VIDEO ADVERTISEMENTS ADAMS, EILEEN M — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2025
19205572 MESSAGE PROCESSING USING A CLIENT-SIDE CONTROL GROUP DINH, KHANH Q — DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 12, 2025
19196382 AUTOMATED ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC SELECTION (CREATION) OF HIGH QUALITY SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT FOR USER ENGAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION CASTRO, ALFONSO 2421 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 01, 2025
19184738 Content System with User-Input Based Video Content Generation Feature PARK, SUNGHYOUN 2484 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 21, 2025
19082855 RENDERING A DYNAMIC ENDEMIC BANNER ON STREAMING PLATFORMS USING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS AND CONTENT AFFINITY MODELING NGUYEN, THUY N — §101§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 18, 2025
19056935 COMPRESSION LOADED SLIT SHAPED WAVEGUIDE KURR, JASON R — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 19, 2025
19037613 POWER SHARING FOR SMART DOORBELL HEAD AND CHIME CONTROLLER GAUTHIER, GERALD — §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 27, 2025
19034015 Computing System with Device Attestation Feature IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O 2494 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2025
19027714 AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF DISPLAY DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY ZAMAN, FAISAL M — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19016064 REAL-TIME OBJECTS INSERTION INTO CONTENT BASED ON FRAME IDENTIFIERS HONG, MICHAEL HYUN 2426 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 10, 2025
19013772 TECHNIQUES FOR SHARING CONTENT LINKS IN MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM JACOB, AJITH 2161 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 08, 2025
19010973 CONTENT DISPLAY AND CLUSTERING SYSTEM TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 06, 2025
19008302 POWER MONITORING OF DEVICES CHAKRAVARTHY, LATHA — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 02, 2025
18976916 Dynamic Triggering and Processing of a Purchase Based on Computer Detection of Media Object BHATNAGAR, ANAND P — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2024
18975589 Media System with Closed-Captioning Data and/or Subtitle Data Generation Features ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 10, 2024
18973485 STOCHASTIC RANK BOOST FACTORS TO OPTIMIZE ENGAGEMENT AND REVENUE WALSH, EMMETT K 3626 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18972478 Dynamic Provisioning of IoT Devices From an Online Application Marketplace BARKER, TODD L 2449 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 06, 2024
18970589 REPLACEMENT OF DIGITAL CONTENT IN DATA STREAMS MONSHI, SAMIRA 2422 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 05, 2024
18958959 ADAPTIVE AUDIO BITRATE SELECTION FAN, HUA 2400 §102DP Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Nov 25, 2024
18949332 DYNAMIC SOUND OUTPUT ADJUSTMENT BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL DETECTION BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE 2691 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 15, 2024
18946519 DISPLAY SETTING ADJUSTMENT XAVIER, ANTONIO J 2622 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 13, 2024
18927516 USER INTERFACE RESPONSIVE TO BACKGROUND VIDEO FAN, HUA — §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18925580 DYNAMIC SPLASH SCREEN DURING AN APPLICATION LAUNCH SEQUENCE FOR MEDIA STREAMING DEVICES ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 2426 DP Non-Final OA 23d Pending Oct 24, 2024
18923207 DETECTING AND SWITCHING WIRELESS NETWORKS BATISTA, MARCOS — Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 22, 2024
18920422 AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING OPTIMAL SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT FOR A MEDIA STREAM MENU INTERFACE CASTRO, ALFONSO 2421 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2024
18919190 PERSONALIZED AUDIO IN A SHARED VIEWING ENVIRONMENT NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2691 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 17, 2024
18919019 ANALYTICS ASSISTANT USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ESPINAS, KYLENINO TAGALOG 2655 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 17, 2024
18913919 Computing System with Multi-Layered and Unified Machine-Learning Model BODNARK, MATTHEW JAMES 2668 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 11, 2024
18910175 REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT OF MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN A PARTICULAR ENVIRONMENT HSU, BAILOR CHIA-JONG — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 09, 2024
18891725 AD-HOC LIGHTWEIGHT mPOS REMOTE CONTROL GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 3627 DP Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2024
18830189 CLOUD COMPUTATION FOR APPLICATIONS ON MEDIA DEVICES ANYA, CHARLES E — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 10, 2024
18808347 AUDIO COMMAND INTERFACE FOR A MULTIMEDIA DEVICE SHARMA, NEERAJ 2659 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 19, 2024
18802695 USING GENERATIVE MACHINE-LEARNING TO INTERPOLATE DROPPED FRAMES LEE, MICHAEL 2422 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 13, 2024
18755484 DYNAMIC RENDERING OF A CONTEXTUALIZED ADVERTISEMENT KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 2421 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 26, 2024
18680112 DATA EXTRACTION AND ENHANCEMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 2657 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18667823 Computing System with Functionality Related to a Machine-Learning Model Store XIA, XUYANG — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 17, 2024
18659542 CONTENT ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS SAINT CYR, JEAN D 2425 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18634492 SECURE DEVICE ACCESS AND MODULE LOADING USING AUTHORIZATION TOKEN HENNING, MATTHEW T 2491 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 12, 2024
18597099 GENERATION OF MEDIA SEGMENTS FROM LARGER MEDIA CONTENT FOR MEDIA CONTENT NAVIGATION DANG, HUNG Q 2484 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 06, 2024
18596391 KNOWLEDGE BASE ENTITY CLASSIFICATION LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 05, 2024
18582249 HETEROGENEOUS GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK USING OFFSET TEMPORAL LEARNING FOR SEARCH PERSONALIZATION ACOSTA, RILEY SULLIVAN — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 20, 2024
18440815 THREAD WATCHDOG MANAGER YUN, CARINA 4100 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2024
18423802 ENHANCING TRANSFER LEARNING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS SHAH, SAYED MUNEER — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 26, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Roku Inc. have?

Roku Inc. has 68 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 32 art units and 61 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Roku Inc. applications?

Hua Fan has the most, with 3 of Roku Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Roku Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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