Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Salesforce Inc.

81 pending office actions • 53 art units • 76 examiners • 0 of 81 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 390 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

81
Total Pending OAs
41
Non-Final OAs
28
Final Rejections
12
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 77 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

38
Overdue
4
Due this week
15
Due this month
14
Due in next 60 days
6
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. 77 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (38)Due ≤ 7 days (4)Due ≤ 30 days (15)Due ≤ 60 days (14)Due later (6)

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.

13
Hard (16%)
65
Medium (80%)
2
Easy (2%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only13 (16%)
§103 only59 (73%)
§102 only6 (7%)
§112 only1 (1%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
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
48
Information Tech
59% of docket
15
Communications
19% of docket
1
Semiconductors
1% of docket
17
Mechanical / Eng
21% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

810 h
Manual time on pending OAs
162 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
284 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 2 66.9% +23.9%
YOUNG, CAMERON KENNETH 2 72.7% +16.1%
BLACK, LINH 2 50.6% +12.0%
SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 2 28.7% +40.9%
ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2 76.5% +15.6%
CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 1 74.9% +32.6%
FILIPCZYK, MARCIN R 1 64.6% +37.2%
VY, HUNG T 1 86.2% +2.0%
PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 1 18.6% +28.6%
OBAID, HAMZEH M 1 38.9% +21.8%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19038929 INTELLIGENT DATA SLICING VY, HUNG T 43d overdue

Hard Cases (16)

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
18401338 INCREASING MEETING PRODUCTIVITY UTILIZING ROLE-BASED EVENT GENERATION SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 140d overdue
18102369 CONTENT GENERATION FOR USER INTERESTS TSUI, WILSON W 98d overdue
17989871 TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR NAME GENERATION PEACH, POLINA G 98d overdue
18157471 DATABASE SYSTEMS AND PARALLEL PROCESSING METHODS WITH RELATIONSHIP CHUNKING DORAIS, CRAIG C 45d overdue
18780357 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH ADAPTIVE AUTOMATED METADATA ASSIGNMENT PHAM, TUAN A 35d overdue
18047502 DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONFIGURABLE INVOICE GENERATION SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 8d overdue
18524607 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INSIGHTS REGARDING A PARTY IN RESPONSE TO A CALL EDMONDS, DONALD J 2d overdue
18636966 PLANNING PHASE AND GENERATION PHASE FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NEWAY, SAMUEL G 9d

Interview Candidates (14)

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
18401338 INCREASING MEETING PRODUCTIVITY UTILIZING ROLE-BASED EVENT GENERATION SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 140d overdue
18152185 JUST-IN-TIME MATERIALIZATION OF CLONED USERS IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS WITHIN A DATABASE SYSTEM ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 91d overdue
17157967 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING VERY LARGE DATA SETS IN DATABASES BLACK, LINH 86d overdue
18743828 MULTI-TENANT GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM YOUNG, CAMERON KENNETH 5d 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
19041207 INTEGRATED DATABASE MACHINE LEARNING OPERATIONS CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 7d
18158702 NON-FUNGIBLE PREFERENCE TOKEN ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2163 7
3624 5
2658 4
2154 3
3625 3
2497 2
3629 2
2655 2
2659 2
2657 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19068993 ENSEMBLE OF VECTOR AND GRAPH BASED EMBEDDINGS FOR LARGE LANGUAGE PROMPT AUGMENTATION MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 2163 §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 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2025
19041207 INTEGRATED DATABASE MACHINE LEARNING OPERATIONS CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 2154 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jan 30, 2025
19041292 DYNAMIC PAIRING MECHANISM FOR LIVE DATABASE REPLICATION FILIPCZYK, MARCIN R 2153 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Jan 30, 2025
19038929 INTELLIGENT DATA SLICING VY, HUNG T 2163 §102 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2025
19029862 CUSTOMIZABLE COMMUNICATION PROCESS FLOW PATH METRICS PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 17, 2025
19029786 COMMUNICATION PROCESS FLOW PATH VARIATIONS OBAID, HAMZEH M 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jan 17, 2025
18895139 Systems, Methods, And Devices For Automation And Integration Of Credentialing And Authentication In Workflows Associated With Computing Platforms LE, KHOI V 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2024
18891779 DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE PROTECTION MANAGEMENT HUSSEIN, HASSAN A 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2024
18793988 Applied Artificial Intelligence Technology for Performing Natural Language Generation (NLG) Using Composable Communication Goals and Ontologies to Generate Narrative Stories VILLENA, MARK 2658 DP Non-Final OA 84d Pending Aug 05, 2024
18781365 DELEGATION BASED ACCESS TO SECURE SYSTEMS DOAN, TRANG T 2431 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2024
18780357 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH ADAPTIVE AUTOMATED METADATA ASSIGNMENT PHAM, TUAN A 2163 §101 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18759047 System And Methods Of Defense Against DDoS Attacks For Applications On A Multi Substrate Multiingress Shared Infrastructure ALI, AFAQ 2434 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18759748 ASSET HISTORY BASED SERVICE PREDICTIONS LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18750477 Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Communication Channel Integration ZHANG, LESHUI 2695 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18751131 VizQL Data Service - Open APIs for Public Access to the Tableau Query Service SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA 2164 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 21, 2024
18750469 Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Integration Architecture SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18743828 MULTI-TENANT GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM YOUNG, CAMERON KENNETH 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18744106 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED TEXT RETRIEVAL WITH TRANSFER LEARNING YOUNG, CAMERON KENNETH 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 14, 2024
18744579 TECHNIQUES TO PERFORM AUTHORIZATION ON LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL RESPONSES DESROSIERS, EVANS 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18742970 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A CHANNEL CALENDAR IN A GROUP-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NGUYEN, NGA B 3625 §102 Final Rejection 114d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18734932 DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED AGENT AUTOMATIONS SERROU, ABDELALI 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2024
18674802 Domain-Specific Shorthand for Generation of Data Visualizations based on Context Free Grammar LEE, JANGWOEN 2656 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18667242 DYNAMIC PROMPT GENERATION FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED ON REACTIVE INTERACTIONS HO, ANDREW N 2169 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending May 17, 2024
18659385 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATABASE SYSTEM ANOMALY DETECTION AND INCIDENT MANAGEMENT MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA 2113 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18651605 Interpreting Natural Language Comparisons During Visual Analysis BLACK, LINH 2163 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18648191 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A STREAM OF INCOMING MESSAGES SENT FROM A SPECIFIC INPUT MESSAGE SOURCE AND VALIDATING EACH INCOMING MESSAGE OF THAT STREAM BEFORE SENDING THEM TO A SPECIFIC TARGET SYSTEM MIAN, MOHAMMAD YOU A 2457 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18636966 PLANNING PHASE AND GENERATION PHASE FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NEWAY, SAMUEL G 2657 §101 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18635768 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A CAMPAIGN VIG, NARESH 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18429327 GENERATING WORKFLOWS USING MODULAR FUNCTIONS KNIGHT, LETORIA G 3623 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18428922 Unified Connectivity Testing & Validtion System MORSHED, HOSSAIN M 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18428003 Incremental Orchestration of a Datacenter on a Cloud Platform LI, YANBIN 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18429113 EMBEDDED VIEW OF THIRD-PARTY DATA AND TEMPLATE GENERATION FOR A COMMUNICATION PLATFORM NAZAR, AHAMED I 2178 §102 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18427014 SEMANTIC SEARCHING OF STRUCTURED DATA USING GENERATED QUERY SPACES VOGT, JACOB BUI 2653 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18426650 NETWORK SECURITY POLICY GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION CHANG, TOM Y 2455 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18424652 SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING VIDEO CONTENTS DIVECHA, KAMAL B 2453 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18423246 AUTOMATATED APPLICATION VULNERABILITY TRIAGE MANAGEMENT MUNGUIA, DUILIO 2497 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Jan 25, 2024
18417173 GENERATING A PREBUILT WORKFLOW BASED ON A PROMPT SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 3625 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 19, 2024
18416612 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT GENERATION WITH VOCABULARY DETOXIFICATION LERNER, MARTIN 2658 §103 Final Rejection 47d Pending Jan 18, 2024
18401341 GENERATING EVENTS BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA LABOGIN, DORETHEA L 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2023
18401338 INCREASING MEETING PRODUCTIVITY UTILIZING ROLE-BASED EVENT GENERATION SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 140d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2023
18401340 UPDATING EVENT DATA BASED ON DEPARTING USER PROFILES MUNDUR, PADMAVATHI V 2441 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2023
18527668 TWO-STAGE FRAMEWORK FOR ZERO-SHOT IDENTITY-AGNOSTIC TALKING-HEAD GENERATION TAHA, AHMED 2613 §102 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18524607 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INSIGHTS REGARDING A PARTY IN RESPONSE TO A CALL EDMONDS, DONALD J 3629 §101 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18515659 SMART PRIVILEGE ESCALATION IN A CLOUD PLATFORM JACOB, AJITH 2161 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18514287 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) CONTEXTUAL CREDIT METERING OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA 3696 §101 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18488831 AUTONOMOUS EXECUTION OF UNSTRUCTURED COMPUTE PROCESSES DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18373132 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL CONTROLLER CHUNG, DANIEL WONSUK 2659 §101 Final Rejection 40d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18235690 System and Method for Variable Sankey Charting SHARPLESS, SAMUEL 2165 §101 Final Rejection 50d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18335044 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEMANTIC PARSING WITH EXECUTION FOR ANSWERING QUESTIONS OF VARYING COMPLEXITY FROM UNSTRUCTURED TEXT ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Jun 14, 2023
18138957 SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC NETWORK SECURITY CONTROL CHOLLETI, RAGHAVENDER NMN 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2023
18138969 NEURAL NETWORK FOR GENERATING BOTH NODE EMBEDDINGS AND EDGE EMBEDDINGS FOR GRAPHS JABLON, ASHER H. 2127 Other Non-Final OA 36d Pending Apr 25, 2023
18134475 PREDICTING AGGREGATE VALUE OF OBJECTS REPRESENTING POTENTIAL TRANSACTIONS BASED ON POTENTIAL TRANSACTIONS EXPECTED TO BE CREATED EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 13, 2023
18118263 PROVISIONING AND SECURE ACCESS CONTROL FOR STORAGE ON PUBLIC SERVERS MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2023
18162445 Log Data Summarization Techniques EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 2857 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jan 31, 2023
18104158 INTELLIGENTLY MANAGING MULTIPLE CALENDAR BOOKINGS VIA A GROUP-BASED COMMUNICAITON PLATFORM BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
18104126 Generating Previews of Entity Assets KANG, INSUN 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
18161458 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ELEMENT FOR TRACKING DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CHANGES ACROSS MULTIPLE WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS MACASIANO, JOANNE GONZALES 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2023
18102369 CONTENT GENERATION FOR USER INTERESTS TSUI, WILSON W 2172 §101 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2023
18158702 NON-FUNGIBLE PREFERENCE TOKEN ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jan 24, 2023
18157471 DATABASE SYSTEMS AND PARALLEL PROCESSING METHODS WITH RELATIONSHIP CHUNKING DORAIS, CRAIG C 2198 §101 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
18152185 JUST-IN-TIME MATERIALIZATION OF CLONED USERS IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS WITHIN A DATABASE SYSTEM ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2023
18094267 System For Publishing Embedded Web Application With Atomic Version Control PAULINO, LENIN 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Jan 06, 2023
18147314 DYNAMIC CHUNK SIZE FOR OPTIMAL BATCH PROCESSING PHAKOUSONH, DARAVANH 2121 §101 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 28, 2022
18082002 STATEFUL RULE EXECUTION WITH FACT HANDLES RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J 2156 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Dec 15, 2022
18060874 TRAINING OF PREDICTION NETWORK FOR AUTOMATIC CORRELATION OF INFORMATION MOUNDI, ISHAN NMN 2141 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 01, 2022
18072195 CHANNEL RECOMMENDATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING BAHL, SANGEETA 3626 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 30, 2022
18059230 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING LABEL MODULAR PROMPTS CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A 2658 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
18058173 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATED UPDATE TIMING OF CACHED DATA LIN, SHERMAN L 2447 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Nov 22, 2022
17991578 WORKFLOW ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 3626 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17989871 TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR NAME GENERATION PEACH, POLINA G 2165 §101 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
18054009 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOLVING MULTI-AGENT DECISION PROCESSES WITH NETWORK CONSTRAINTS MAIDO, MAGGIE T 2129 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 09, 2022
17973174 RECOMMENDATION OF PRODUCTS VIA POPULATION OF A SPARSE DATA MATRIX GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE 3689 §112 Final Rejection 22d Pending Oct 25, 2022
18047502 DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONFIGURABLE INVOICE GENERATION SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 3627 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2022
17889166 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ZERO-SHOT TEXT CLASSIFICATION WITH A CONFORMAL PREDICTOR SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 2658 §101 Final Rejection 13d Pending Aug 16, 2022
17811473 MECHANISMS FOR DELETING TRIPLES OF A DATABASE STORE DEWAN, KAMAL K 2163 §103 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022
17489284 CONFIGURING DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN APPLICATION ELEMENTS TAN, DAVID H 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2021
17357419 MULTI-MODEL SCORING IN A MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM BREENE, PAUL J 2129 §103 Final Rejection 121d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2021
17231015 NEURAL NETWORK BASED ANOMALY DETECTION FOR TIME-SERIES DATA PRESSLY, KURT NICHOLAS 2125 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Apr 15, 2021
17220567 TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL USING STRUCTURED DATA YI, HYUNGJUN B 2146 §103 Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Apr 01, 2021
17157967 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING VERY LARGE DATA SETS IN DATABASES BLACK, LINH 2163 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2021

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