Technology area: Computing & Software
114 pending office actions • 72 art units • 104 examiners • 0 of 114 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 358 patents granted in the last 365 days
Salesforce Inc. has 119 pending office actions in Computing & Software. Those matters span 109 distinct examiners and 75 distinct art units, showing substantial dispersion across the examination corps and technical units. The scale and distribution indicate that centralized docket oversight will be important, but substantive prosecution will still need to remain matter-specific.
DALENCOURT, YVES is the busiest examiner with 2 pending matters. No single examiner accounts for a large share of the pending work, so the profile does not point to one dominant examiner relationship as the main management issue. Counsel may instead prioritize consistent claim-drafting positions, searchable records of recurring objections, and coordination across the many separate assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 31 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. 31 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 | 9 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 42 (37%) |
| §103 only | 41 (36%) |
| §102 only | 3 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (11%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALI, AFAQ | 2 | 89.0% | +10.3% |
| SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 2 | 78.5% | +21.6% |
| MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 2 | 67.2% | +22.1% |
| SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 2 | 67.1% | +23.8% |
| MORALES, PEDRO JESUS | 2 | 57.1% | +60.0% |
| TAN, DAVID H | 2 | 32.1% | +16.6% |
| SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 2 | 26.4% | +37.5% |
| PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS | 2 | 34.5% | +20.7% |
| BAHL, SANGEETA | 2 | 20.9% | +20.4% |
| DALENCOURT, YVES | 2 | 84.2% | -5.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19096380 | Autonomous Agent Generation, Review, And Correction Of Mitigation Plans Against DDoS Attacks In A Shared Infrastructure Computing Environment | ALI, AFAQ | — |
| 19227899 | INTEGRATING AND MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION IN AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM | DALENCOURT, YVES | — |
| 19216102 | INTEGRATING AND MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION IN AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM | DALENCOURT, YVES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401338 | INCREASING MEETING PRODUCTIVITY UTILIZING ROLE-BASED EVENT GENERATION | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 140d overdue |
| 18401340 | UPDATING EVENT DATA BASED ON DEPARTING USER PROFILES | TAYLOR, NICHOLAS R | 42d overdue |
| 18426650 | NETWORK SECURITY POLICY GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION | CHANG, TOM Y | 36d overdue |
| 18427014 | SEMANTIC SEARCHING OF STRUCTURED DATA USING GENERATED QUERY SPACES | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 10d overdue |
| 18770094 | CONFIGURING SERVICE CONSOLES BASED ON SERVICE FEATURE TEMPLATES USING A DATABASE SYSTEM | BAHL, SANGEETA | 8d overdue |
| 19066050 | RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION BASED QUERY REFORMULATION PIPELINE FOR A QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 3d overdue |
| 18524607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INSIGHTS REGARDING A PARTY IN RESPONSE TO A CALL | EDMONDS, DONALD J | 2d overdue |
| 19068993 | ENSEMBLE OF VECTOR AND GRAPH BASED EMBEDDINGS FOR LARGE LANGUAGE PROMPT AUGMENTATION | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401338 | INCREASING MEETING PRODUCTIVITY UTILIZING ROLE-BASED EVENT GENERATION | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 140d overdue |
| 17489284 | CONFIGURING DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN APPLICATION ELEMENTS | TAN, DAVID H | 60d overdue |
| 18770094 | CONFIGURING SERVICE CONSOLES BASED ON SERVICE FEATURE TEMPLATES USING A DATABASE SYSTEM | BAHL, SANGEETA | 8d overdue |
| 19066050 | RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION BASED QUERY REFORMULATION PIPELINE FOR A QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 3d overdue |
| 19068993 | ENSEMBLE OF VECTOR AND GRAPH BASED EMBEDDINGS FOR LARGE LANGUAGE PROMPT AUGMENTATION | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 5d |
| 18750469 | Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Integration Architecture | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 5d |
| 18072195 | CHANNEL RECOMMENDATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING | BAHL, SANGEETA | 14d |
| 19096380 | Autonomous Agent Generation, Review, And Correction Of Mitigation Plans Against DDoS Attacks In A Shared Infrastructure Computing Environment | ALI, AFAQ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 4 |
| 2145 | 4 |
| 3626 | 4 |
| 2161 | 3 |
| 2654 | 3 |
| 3625 | 3 |
| 3624 | 3 |
| 2169 | 3 |
| 2125 | 3 |
| 2497 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19380666 | MECHANISMS FOR MAINTAINING CHAINS WITHOUT LOCKS | PHAM, TUAN A | 2161 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19263527 | MULTI-FACTOR NETWORK SEGMENTATION | HUANG, CHENG-FENG | 2497 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19237476 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARAMETER ENSEMBLING FOR REDUCING HALLUCINATION IN ABSTRACTIVE SUMMARIZATION | MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 2654 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19224603 | PRODUCTION TOOLS FOR COLLABORATIVE VIDEOS | COONEY, ADAM A | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19222818 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNTHETIC PRIVATE DATA GENERATION FOR RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION | WONG, HUEN | 2168 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19221230 | AGGREGATING AN EVENT OCCURRENCE FEEDBACK REPORT WITHIN A GROUPBASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, NGA B | 3625 | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19211559 | Systems and Methods for Network Traffic Classification and Filtering via Fingerprinting and Machine Learning | DESROSIERS, EVANS | 2491 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19201594 | Automating Responses to Authentication Requests Using Unsupervised Computer Learning Techniques | GAVRILENKO, VLADIMIR I | 2431 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19198994 | Systems and Methods for Rendering Large-Scale Data Visualizations | SHAH, VAISHALI | 2156 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19183526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFIED VISION-LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING AND GENERATION | SOHRABY, PARDIS | 2664 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19096380 | Autonomous Agent Generation, Review, And Correction Of Mitigation Plans Against DDoS Attacks In A Shared Infrastructure Computing Environment | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19085324 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVALUATOR OF GENERATIVE MODELS | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 2659 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19068993 | ENSEMBLE OF VECTOR AND GRAPH BASED EMBEDDINGS FOR LARGE LANGUAGE PROMPT AUGMENTATION | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 2163 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19066050 | RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION BASED QUERY REFORMULATION PIPELINE FOR A QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 2163 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19054736 | MESSAGE MODERATION IN A COMMUNICATION PLATFORM | TIV, BACKHEAN | 2459 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19053760 | Artificial Intelligence Agent Retrieval Augmented Generation In A Database System | SOMERS, MARC S | 2159 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19043185 | DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERSIONING CALLS TO EXTERNAL SYSTEMS | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19041829 | TECHNIQUES FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROMPT GROUNDING | SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | 2658 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19029862 | CUSTOMIZABLE COMMUNICATION PROCESS FLOW PATH METRICS | PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029786 | COMMUNICATION PROCESS FLOW PATH VARIATIONS | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19023194 | Systems and Methods for Generating Multimodal Representations to Communicate Data Uncertainty | LEE, JANGWOEN | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18989305 | System And Methods Of Defense Against DDoS Attacks Via Autonomous Agents For Applications On A Multi-Substrate Multi-Ingress Shared Infrastructure With Multiple Cloud Architectures | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18991079 | LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTS FOR MULTI-PLATFORM CONNECTIVITY | GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X | 2656 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18973458 | GENERATION OF DATA-GROUNDED EMAILS FOR AUTO-RESPONSE | JAKOVAC, RYAN J | 2445 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18970892 | ASSESSING AND IMPROVING THE DEPLOYMENT OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN SPECIFIC DOMAINS | TSUI, WILSON W | 2172 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18969213 | SEMANTIC CACHING FOR DOMAIN-SPECIFIC FEW-SHOT PROMPTING | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 2659 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18949621 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DIGITAL CONTENT AUDITING AND RETENTION IN A GROUP BASED COMMUNICATION REPOSITORY | SCOTT, RANDY A | 2439 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18920554 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CODE GENERATION | BOURZIK, BRAHIM | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18918787 | COMMUNICATING BASED ON A WORKFLOW USING WEB BEHAVIOR DATA | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18916149 | INTERFACING WITH API GATEWAY USING GENERATIVE AI APPLICATION | DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P | 2166 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18916630 | CONTEXT-BASED NOTIFICATIONS PRESENTATION | MAGLOIRE, ELISABETH BENOIT | 2471 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18904986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CODE OUTPUT | PAN, HANG | 2193 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18901212 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OBJECTIVE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS USING A CUSTOM DATA MODEL | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 3689 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18894172 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DATABASE ENTITY CREATION | GLASSER, DARA J | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18891779 | DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE PROTECTION MANAGEMENT | HUSSEIN, HASSAN A | 2497 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18886445 | VULNERABILITY DETECTION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS | LITTLE, VANCE M | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18817996 | Generative Language Model Human Readable Plan Generation And Refinement In A Database System | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18817976 | Generative Language Model Planner And Agent Determination In A Database System | KASSIM, HAFIZ A | 3623 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18774375 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUERY-FOCUSED SUMMARIZATION | AYAD, MARIA S | 2172 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18759748 | ASSET HISTORY BASED SERVICE PREDICTIONS | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18750477 | Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Communication Channel Integration | ZHANG, LESHUI | 2695 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18750484 | Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Action Configuration | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 2659 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18750469 | Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Integration Architecture | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 2654 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18746820 | PROCESSING FORMS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 2657 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18742628 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARALLEL FINETUNING OF NEURAL NETWORKS | SANKS, SCHYLER S | 2129 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18738870 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALIGNMENT OF NEURAL NETWORK BASED MODELS | CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | 2145 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18738984 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING TASK-ORIENTED HIERARCHICAL AGENT ARCHITECTURES | ABOUD, ABDULLAH KHALED | 2121 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18676204 | POLICY-BASED EXECUTION OF COMMANDS IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | SUN, CHARLIE | 2198 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18666244 | RECURSIVE MULTI-METRIC EXPANSION FOR QUERIES | MOSER, BRUCE M | 2154 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18658899 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A UNIFIED TRAINING FRAMEWORK OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 2128 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSalesforce Inc. has 114 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 72 art units and 104 examiners.
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