Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
124 pending office actions • 77 art units • 114 examiners • 0 of 124 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 370 patents granted in the last 365 days
Salesforce Inc. maintains a substantial portfolio with 120 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 110 distinct examiners, indicating a broad distribution of the workload. The prosecution involves 58 distinct art units, which reflects the variety of technical classifications within the company's software innovations. DALENCOURT, YVES is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This number for the busiest examiner, compared to the total of 120 pending office actions, highlights the decentralized nature of the company's patent filings.
With 110 distinct examiners involved, the company must navigate a high volume of individual examiner preferences and styles. The 58 distinct art units suggest that the company's intellectual property strategy covers many different functional areas. Managing 120 pending office actions requires significant coordination across these various USPTO divisions. Practitioners should note that the 110 distinct examiners provide a diverse range of perspectives on the company's technology. The concentration of 2 pending office actions with DALENCOURT, YVES is the only minor point of examiner overlap. This broad distribution across the 58 distinct art units indicates a complex and multifaceted prosecution landscape.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 32 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. 32 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 | 8 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 50 (40%) |
| §103 only | 40 (32%) |
| §102 only | 4 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 14 (11%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DALENCOURT, YVES | 2 | 84.2% | -5.5% |
| BAHL, SANGEETA | 2 | 20.8% | +20.0% |
| ALI, AFAQ | 2 | 89.5% | +11.9% |
| ZEVITZ, DANIELLE ELIZABETH | 2 | 34.3% | +60.0% |
| LEE, JANGWOEN | 2 | 86.9% | +16.2% |
| SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 2 | 67.0% | +24.2% |
| SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 2 | 71.1% | +28.8% |
| MORALES, PEDRO JESUS | 2 | 61.5% | +55.6% |
| TAN, DAVID H | 2 | 32.1% | +16.6% |
| PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS | 2 | 34.5% | +20.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 19096380 | Autonomous Agent Generation, Review, And Correction Of Mitigation Plans Against DDoS Attacks In A Shared Infrastructure Computing Environment | ALI, AFAQ | — |
| 19023194 | Systems and Methods for Generating Multimodal Representations to Communicate Data Uncertainty | LEE, JANGWOEN | — |
| 18674750 | Systems, Methods, and User Interfaces for Communicating Data Uncertainty | LEE, JANGWOEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401341 | GENERATING EVENTS BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA | LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | 66d overdue |
| 18401340 | UPDATING EVENT DATA BASED ON DEPARTING USER PROFILES | TAYLOR, NICHOLAS R | 42d overdue |
| 18659385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATABASE SYSTEM ANOMALY DETECTION AND INCIDENT MANAGEMENT | MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA | 38d 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 |
| 18524607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INSIGHTS REGARDING A PARTY IN RESPONSE TO A CALL | EDMONDS, DONALD J | 2d overdue |
| 18750469 | Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Integration Architecture | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18750469 | Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Integration Architecture | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 5d |
| 18744106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED TEXT RETRIEVAL WITH TRANSFER LEARNING | ZEVITZ, DANIELLE ELIZABETH | 13d |
| 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 | — |
| 19066056 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS | ZEVITZ, DANIELLE ELIZABETH | — |
| 19023194 | Systems and Methods for Generating Multimodal Representations to Communicate Data Uncertainty | LEE, JANGWOEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 5 |
| 3624 | 5 |
| 2161 | 4 |
| 2145 | 4 |
| 2169 | 3 |
| 2154 | 3 |
| 2654 | 3 |
| 2434 | 3 |
| 2656 | 3 |
| 2659 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19342275 | TECHNIQUES FOR DATA RETENTION | HOANG, SON T | 2169 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19227899 | INTEGRATING AND MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION IN AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM | DALENCOURT, YVES | 2457 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19216102 | INTEGRATING AND MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION IN AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM | DALENCOURT, YVES | 2457 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18770094 | CONFIGURING SERVICE CONSOLES BASED ON SERVICE FEATURE TEMPLATES USING A DATABASE SYSTEM | BAHL, SANGEETA | 3626 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18629117 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING CUSTOM ACTIONS | AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS | 2178 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18075263 | NETWORK SECURITY FOR MULTIPLE FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS | ZHENG, BIN QING | 2499 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17576724 | SUBCOMPONENT MODEL TRAINING | TRAN, DAVID HOANG | 2147 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2022 |
| 17565215 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KNOWLEDGE BASE QUESTION ANSWERING USING GENERATION AUGMENTED RANKING | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 2100 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2021 |
| 17565305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KNOWLEDGE BASE QUESTION ANSWERING USING GENERATION AUGMENTED RANKING | ILES, TYLER EDWARD | 2122 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2021 |
| 17328779 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL MULTI-LABEL CONTRASTIVE LEARNING | TRAN, AMY NMN | 2126 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2021 |
| 19314400 | STATEMENT-LEVEL INSTEAD-OF DATABASE TRIGGERS | ALAM, SHAHID AL | 2161 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19265861 | MECHANISMS FOR GROUPING NODES | ROJAS, MIDYS | 2133 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19242231 | API Governance Enforcement Architecture | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 2154 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 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 |
| 19235469 | COMPUTING SYSTEM PERMISSION ADMINISTRATION ENGINE | SONG, HEE K | 2497 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19224603 | PRODUCTION TOOLS FOR COLLABORATIVE VIDEOS | COONEY, ADAM A | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 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 |
| 19066056 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS | ZEVITZ, DANIELLE ELIZABETH | 2655 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19053760 | Artificial Intelligence Agent Retrieval Augmented Generation In A Database System | SOMERS, MARC S | 2159 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19054610 | SEAMLESS COMMUNICATION RESOURCE TRANSITION BETWEEN A GROUP-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND AN EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | JOO, JOSHUA | 2445 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19054736 | MESSAGE MODERATION IN A COMMUNICATION PLATFORM | TIV, BACKHEAN | 2459 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
| 19037333 | Artificial Intelligence Agent Access Multi-Modal Input In A Database System | VY, HUNG T | 2163 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19029786 | COMMUNICATION PROCESS FLOW PATH VARIATIONS | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029862 | CUSTOMIZABLE COMMUNICATION PROCESS FLOW PATH METRICS | PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | 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 |
| 19009856 | Optimizing and Simplifying Rendering of Data Points in a Visualization | PROTAZI, BRIGITER DIVULALE | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 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 |
| 18974318 | Data Structure Format Manipulation for Database Systems | HTAY, LIN LIN M | 2153 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
| 18928542 | ACCESS CONTROL AND GOVERNANCE FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA | ANKRUM, ALEC CHRISTOPHER | 2434 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18920554 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CODE GENERATION | BOURZIK, BRAHIM | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18916149 | INTERFACING WITH API GATEWAY USING GENERATIVE AI APPLICATION | DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P | 2166 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18904986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CODE OUTPUT | PAN, HANG | 2193 | §102§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 |
| 18890461 | DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE APPLICATION LOCALIZATIONS | STANLEY, KAVITA | 2153 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18886445 | VULNERABILITY DETECTION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS | LITTLE, VANCE M | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 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 |
| 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 |
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Start Free TrialSalesforce Inc. has 124 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 77 art units and 114 examiners.
Yves Dalencourt has the most, with 2 of Salesforce Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.