Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
68 pending office actions • 32 art units • 61 examiners • 0 of 68 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 132 patents granted in the last 365 days
Roku Inc. has 68 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 68 actions are distributed across 32 distinct art units, showing a broad technical range within the networking field. The company works with 62 distinct examiners, indicating that most of the 68 pending actions are being reviewed by unique individuals. This distribution across 32 art units and 62 examiners requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to many different individual examiner preferences and art unit norms. The 68 pending office actions represent a substantial volume of intellectual property.
CASTRO, ALFONSO is the busiest examiner, overseeing 3 pending office actions. This count of 3 actions is the highest for any single examiner in the portfolio. The remaining actions are managed by the other distinct examiners. With 68 pending actions spread across 62 examiners, there is very little concentration of cases. Practitioners should focus on the 3 actions under CASTRO, ALFONSO while also addressing the broader group of 62 distinct examiners. The 32 distinct art units provide the technical framework for these 68 pending office actions.
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.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 12 (18%) |
| §103 only | 29 (43%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 8 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (19%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTRO, ALFONSO | 3 | 51.0% | +19.4% |
| PARK, SUNGHYOUN | 2 | 75.4% | +9.3% |
| FAN, HUA | 2 | 69.8% | +21.2% |
| ANYA, CHARLES E | 2 | 81.7% | +32.9% |
| SHAH, SAYED MUNEER | 2 | — | — |
| MENGISTU, TEWODROS E | 2 | 49.7% | +30.7% |
| KANG, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 45.7% | +26.8% |
| BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 1 | 63.0% | +23.8% |
| LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N | 1 | 44.5% | +23.1% |
| LE, RONG | 1 | 68.4% | +29.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 |
| 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 | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 19196382 | AUTOMATED ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC SELECTION (CREATION) OF HIGH QUALITY SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT FOR USER ENGAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION | CASTRO, ALFONSO | — |
| 18927516 | USER INTERFACE RESPONSIVE TO BACKGROUND VIDEO | FAN, HUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2421 | 5 |
| 2425 | 3 |
| 2484 | 2 |
| 2426 | 2 |
| 2422 | 2 |
| 2691 | 2 |
| 2424 | 2 |
| 2659 | 2 |
| 2127 | 2 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 18907650 | NON-TELEVISION EXPERIENCE TRIGGERS | VU, NGOC K | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18891725 | AD-HOC LIGHTWEIGHT mPOS REMOTE CONTROL | GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | 3627 | DP | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 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 | — | §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 |
| 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§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 |
| 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 |
| 18423825 | RETRIEVAL OPTIMIZATION USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING | SHAH, SAYED MUNEER | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18423834 | RETRIEVAL STRATEGY SELECTION OPTIMIZATION USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING | MAIDO, MAGGIE T | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18423802 | ENHANCING TRANSFER LEARNING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | SHAH, SAYED MUNEER | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18415337 | CONTENT ITEM TRANSLATION AND SEARCH | MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18398616 | INTERNET OF THINGS CAMERA-BASED ITEM SEARCH | GART, MATTHEW S | 3696 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18392877 | HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFIERS FOR MANAGING USER REPORTS | MENGISTU, TEWODROS E | 2127 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18529753 | Media System with Selective Message Output Feature | CHOU, ALAN S | 2451 | §102 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18498917 | SCENE BREAK DETECTION | PARK, SUNGHYOUN | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18496459 | Local Area Network System with Machine Learning-Based Task Offload Feature | ANYA, CHARLES E | 2194 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18478543 | REDUCING INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) CAMERA ALERTS AND NETWORK BANDWIDTH WITH ASSISTED COLD/HOT ZONE DETERMINATION | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 2483 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 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 |
| 18467829 | SMART DOORBELL | VO, TUNG T | 2425 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18238030 | UNIFICATION REDUCTION OF COMPLEX TRAVERSAL AND SEARCH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE | CASTRO, ALFONSO | 2421 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 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 |
| 18204048 | HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFIERS FOR USER RESPONSE STATEMENTS | MENGISTU, TEWODROS E | 2127 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18079204 | PLACING ORDERS FOR A SUBJECT INCLUDED IN A MULTIMEDIA SEGMENT | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 3688 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 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 |
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