Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Roku Inc.

75 pending office actions • 34 art units • 67 examiners • 0 of 75 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 117 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

75
Total Pending OAs
51
Non-Final OAs
22
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

21
Hard (28%)
46
Medium (61%)
8
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (3%)
§101 + other8 (11%)
§103 only44 (59%)
§102 only1 (1%)
Double-patenting only8 (11%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
31
Information Tech
41% of docket
15
Communications
20% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
22
Business / Other
29% 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.

750 h
Manual time on pending OAs
150 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
262 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CASTRO, ALFONSO 3 50.8% +19.1%
FLYNN, RANDY A 2 65.4% +16.3%
KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 2 56.7% +27.3%
FAN, HUA 2 69.7% +21.2%
ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 2 58.1% +38.1%
SHAH, SAYED MUNEER 2
PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 2 43.0% +26.0%
BANTAMOI, ANTHONY 1 74.5% +30.0%
BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O 1 62.6% +24.1%
LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 1 43.8% +23.6%

Hard Cases (21)

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
18732183 Computing System with Personalized Educational Content Generation Feature BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N 31d overdue
18680112 DATA EXTRACTION AND ENHANCEMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 3d overdue
18505398 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION IN MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 9d
19261126 VOICE CONTROL FOR SETTINGS ON TV OR OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N
19255420 ADAPTIVE AD BREAK CLASSIFICATION AND RECOMMENDATION BASED ON MULTIMODAL MEDIA FEATURES HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q
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
19010973 CONTENT DISPLAY AND CLUSTERING SYSTEM TO, BAOQUOC N

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
18958959 ADAPTIVE AUDIO BITRATE SELECTION FAN, HUA 9d overdue
18505398 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION IN MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 9d
18925580 DYNAMIC SPLASH SCREEN DURING AN APPLICATION LAUNCH SEQUENCE FOR MEDIA STREAMING DEVICES ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 23d
18223891 PROVIDING ENERGY-EFFICIENT FEATURES USING HUMAN PRESENCE DETECTION FLYNN, RANDY A 33d
19293603 WEB-BASED CONTENT PRESENTATION VIA SMART TELEVISION DEVICE APPLICATION BANTAMOI, ANTHONY
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
19229206 Product Metrics Monitoring and Anomaly Detection Using Machine Learning Models FLYNN, RANDY A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2421 5
2426 4
2424 4
2425 3
2422 3
2659 3
2691 2
2484 2
3689 2
2471 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19293603 WEB-BASED CONTENT PRESENTATION VIA SMART TELEVISION DEVICE APPLICATION BANTAMOI, ANTHONY DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2025
19276957 Dynamic Collection and Reporting of Customer Premises Context Information in Response to Predicted Emergency Event BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O §103 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
19255420 ADAPTIVE AD BREAK CLASSIFICATION AND RECOMMENDATION BASED ON MULTIMODAL MEDIA FEATURES HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2025
19250427 DISPLAYING MULTIMEDIA SEGMENTS IN A DISPLAY DEVICE KHALID, OMER 2422 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2025
19248598 SECURE PAYMENT USING A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) ENABLED REMOTE CONTROL EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI 2425 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 25, 2025
19240316 TAILORING AND CENSORING CONTENT BASED ON A DETECTED AUDIENCE PARRA, OMAR S §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2025
19229206 Product Metrics Monitoring and Anomaly Detection Using Machine Learning Models FLYNN, RANDY A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 05, 2025
19221091 INTELLIGENT DOWNLOAD OF CONTENT KURIEN, CHRISTEN A DP Non-Final OA Pending May 28, 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
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
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
19016064 REAL-TIME OBJECTS INSERTION INTO CONTENT BASED ON FRAME IDENTIFIERS HONG, MICHAEL HYUN 2426 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 10, 2025
19010973 CONTENT DISPLAY AND CLUSTERING SYSTEM TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 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
18975208 TRANSMITTING MESSAGES TO A DISPLAY DEVICE BASED ON DETECTED AUDIO OUTPUT SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH DP 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
18970589 REPLACEMENT OF DIGITAL CONTENT IN DATA STREAMS MONSHI, SAMIRA 2422 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 05, 2024
18958959 ADAPTIVE AUDIO BITRATE SELECTION FAN, HUA 2400 §102DP Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Nov 25, 2024
18957227 INTEREST-BASED CONVERSATIONAL RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM COLUCCI, MICHAEL C DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2024
18949332 DYNAMIC SOUND OUTPUT ADJUSTMENT BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL DETECTION BEKEE, CHIMEZIE EZERIWE 2691 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2024
18946519 DISPLAY SETTING ADJUSTMENT XAVIER, ANTONIO J 2622 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 13, 2024
18946366 INTERACTIVE CONTENT WHEN THE SECONDARY CONTENT IS SERVER STITCHED ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 2426 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 13, 2024
18927516 USER INTERFACE RESPONSIVE TO BACKGROUND VIDEO FAN, HUA §103§112 Non-Final OA 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
18924467 USING NON-AUDIO DATA EMBEDDED IN AN AUDIO SIGNAL SELLERS, DANIEL R §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2024
18920422 AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING OPTIMAL SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT FOR A MEDIA STREAM MENU INTERFACE CASTRO, ALFONSO 2421 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 18, 2024
18919019 ANALYTICS ASSISTANT USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ESPINAS, KYLENINO TAGALOG 2655 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 17, 2024
18919190 PERSONALIZED AUDIO IN A SHARED VIEWING ENVIRONMENT NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2691 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 17, 2024
18913919 Computing System with Multi-Layered and Unified Machine-Learning Model BODNARK, MATTHEW JAMES 2668 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 11, 2024
18907650 NON-TELEVISION EXPERIENCE TRIGGERS VU, NGOC K 2421 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2024
18829979 CONTENT ACQUISITION SYSTEM NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2424 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Sep 10, 2024
18830189 CLOUD COMPUTATION FOR APPLICATIONS ON MEDIA DEVICES ANYA, CHARLES E §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2024
18827340 Use of Relative Time of Receipt of Voice Command as Basis to Control Response to Voice Command VILLENA, MARK 2658 DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
18816484 Dynamic Configuration of an IoT Control Application to Support New Controlled Device Type BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 2457 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Aug 27, 2024
18808347 AUDIO COMMAND INTERFACE FOR A MULTIMEDIA DEVICE SHARMA, NEERAJ 2659 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 19, 2024
18805231 ADJUSTING VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION USING AN AI-BASED NOISE METRIC GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA 2677 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2024
18802695 USING GENERATIVE MACHINE-LEARNING TO INTERPOLATE DROPPED FRAMES LEE, MICHAEL 2422 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 13, 2024
18755484 DYNAMIC RENDERING OF A CONTEXTUALIZED ADVERTISEMENT KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 2421 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18732183 Computing System with Personalized Educational Content Generation Feature BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N 3715 §102§103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2024
18680112 DATA EXTRACTION AND ENHANCEMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 2657 §102§103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18667192 PAIRWISE COMPARISON RATING TO REDUCE PRESENTATION BIAS IN CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 2164 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 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
18611562 PERSONALIZATION OF USER INTERFACE TEMPLATES BELOUSOV, ANDREY 2172 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2024
18597099 GENERATION OF MEDIA SEGMENTS FROM LARGER MEDIA CONTENT FOR MEDIA CONTENT NAVIGATION DANG, HUNG Q 2484 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2024
18441377 Content System with Related Segment Feature MENGESHA, MULUGETA A 2424 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2024
18440815 THREAD WATCHDOG MANAGER YUN, CARINA 4100 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 13, 2024
18438946 GENERATING AND PROVIDING VISUAL CONTENT ITEMS FOR DISPLAY CHEN, YU 2613 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18423789 USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL TO IMPROVE TRAINING DATA HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS 2659 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 26, 2024
18423802 ENHANCING TRANSFER LEARNING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS SHAH, SAYED MUNEER §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 26, 2024
18423825 RETRIEVAL OPTIMIZATION USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SHAH, SAYED MUNEER §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 26, 2024
18398616 INTERNET OF THINGS CAMERA-BASED ITEM SEARCH GART, MATTHEW S 3696 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2023
18391979 MODEL CUSTOMIZATION FOR DOMAIN-SPECIFIC TASKS KEATON, SHERROD L §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2023
18505398 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION IN MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3689 §101§103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18498917 SCENE BREAK DETECTION PARK, SUNGHYOUN 2484 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2023
18498951 PROCESSING AND CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF VIDEO SEGMENTS VANCHY JR, MICHAEL J 2666 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 31, 2023
18380650 Smart Water Valve Charged By Water Flow GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2023
18374463 MULTI-ALERT-LEVEL MONITORING AND ALERTING FOR PREMISES USING INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICES TUN, NAY L 2688 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18464617 Dynamic Triggering and Processing of a Purchase Based on Computer Detection of Media Object PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2023
18455758 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL SELECTION FOR CAMERA SYSTEMS CAI, PHUONG HAU 2673 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18238030 UNIFICATION REDUCTION OF COMPLEX TRAVERSAL AND SEARCH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE CASTRO, ALFONSO 2421 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 25, 2023
18360458 STREAMING-MEDIA SYSTEM WITH PUBLISHER SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATION FEATURE BOYD, ALEXANDER L 2424 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 27, 2023
18223891 PROVIDING ENERGY-EFFICIENT FEATURES USING HUMAN PRESENCE DETECTION FLYNN, RANDY A 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 19, 2023
18340808 Content System with Speech-Related Audio Content Replacement Feature CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK 2659 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2023
18208717 EXPLORING USER INTERESTS WITH MULTI-ARM BANDIT (MAB), CONTEXTUAL MAB, AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN RECOMMENDATION KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE 3689 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 12, 2023
18328560 Content System with Summary-Based Content Generation Feature TELAN, MICHAEL R 2426 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 02, 2023
18204048 HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFIERS FOR USER RESPONSE STATEMENTS MENGISTU, TEWODROS E 2127 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 31, 2023
17965284 ONLINE AUTOMATIC HYPERPARAMETER TUNING NYE, LOUIS CHRISTOPHER 2141 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 13, 2022
17932985 DEMAND SIDE PLATFORM IDENTITY GRAPH ENHANCEMENT THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING (ML) INFERENCING SHELDEN, BION A 3685 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 16, 2022
17932444 Distributed Maintenance of Operational Data Among IoT Devices, with Soft-Wiring or Other Configuration ADHAMI, MOHAMMAD SAJID 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Sep 15, 2022
17939494 NETWORK PATH SELECTION IN A SINGLE SERVICE SET ID KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 07, 2022

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