Technology area: Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sling Tv L L C has 3 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so each action occupies a separate examination channel.
CHIN, RICKY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A matter-by-matter response plan is appropriate for this distributed docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, RICKY | 1 | 68.7% | +21.6% |
| KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 1 | 69.0% | +22.5% |
| ALATA, YASSIN | 1 | 66.8% | +14.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757306 | BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION THROUGH AGGREGATED MULTI-CASTING OF MEDIA STREAMS | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFYING LOCAL CHANNELS WITH OVER-THE-TOP SERVICES | CHIN, RICKY | — |
| 18757306 | BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION THROUGH AGGREGATED MULTI-CASTING OF MEDIA STREAMS | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | — |
| 18054477 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEMPORALLY RESTRICTING ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA | ALATA, YASSIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2424 | 1 |
| 2463 | 1 |
| 2426 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19186470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFYING LOCAL CHANNELS WITH OVER-THE-TOP SERVICES | CHIN, RICKY | 2424 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 18757306 | BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION THROUGH AGGREGATED MULTI-CASTING OF MEDIA STREAMS | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 2463 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18054477 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEMPORALLY RESTRICTING ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA | ALATA, YASSIN | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSling Tv L L C has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Ricky Chin has the most, with 1 of Sling Tv L L C's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
