Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

T-Mobile USA Inc.

Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications

187 pending office actions • 100 art units • 170 examiners • 0 of 187 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 626 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

T Mobile Usa Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution environment. LEE, JAI M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending action.

The concentration of the entire pending portfolio under a single examiner and art unit simplifies the prosecution strategy for the company. There are no competing examiner perspectives to navigate within the current set of active filings, as the pending action is the only matter requiring attention. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific requirements of the art unit and the individual preferences of LEE, JAI M. This focused ratio of actions to examiners ensures that the company's communications-related intellectual property is subject to a single review process. The company's strategy is thus tied to the findings of LEE, JAI M.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

187
Total Pending OAs
104
Non-Final OAs
75
Final Rejections
8
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 56 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

23
Overdue
4
Due this week
20
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 56 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (23)Due ≤ 7 days (4)Due ≤ 30 days (20)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (4)

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.

53
Hard (28%)
123
Medium (66%)
7
Easy (4%)
4
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (2%)
§101 + other19 (10%)
§103 only113 (60%)
§102 only5 (3%)
§112 only5 (3%)
Double-patenting only2 (1%)
Double-patenting + other5 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)31 (17%)
No statute on record4 (2%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
100
Information Tech
53% of docket
67
Communications
36% of docket
2
Semiconductors
1% of docket
17
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
1
Business / Other
1% 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.

1,870 h
Manual time on pending OAs
374 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
654 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
16.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KHAN, MEHMOOD B 3 69.0% +22.5%
MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT 2 44.9% +46.9%
EL-ZOOBI, MARIA 2 78.9% +14.1%
ZARKA, DAVID PETER 2 82.5% +13.6%
CHU, WUTCHUNG 2 81.0% +18.6%
JAIN, SWATI 2 85.0% +22.1%
SABOURI, MAZDA 2 77.0% +17.4%
FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A 2 85.5% +8.2%
DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE 2 100.0% +0.0%
PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 2 15.2% +12.9%

Quick Wins (8)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18142207 INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) HUB AND COMMUNICATION PROCESS USING A MOBILE DEVICE FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A 28d
18970381 PROACTIVE NETWORK LOAD MANAGEMENT ZARKA, DAVID PETER —
18893794 SCHEDULING HARQ TRANSMISSIONS IN MINI-SLOTS CHU, WUTCHUNG —
18666770 SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION FOR RRC INACTIVE STATE CHU, WUTCHUNG —
18411357 WINDOW MOUNTED WIRELESS GATEWAY SYSTEM APP FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A —
18409514 SHARED ATTRIBUTED ALIASING FOR SUBSCRIPTION PROFILES DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE —
18529353 CHECK-IN USER EXPERIENCE SUPPORTED BY A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE —
18788360 AI-BASED SYSTEM FOR ROOT CAUSE ANALYSES OF OPERATIONAL ANOMALIES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS ZARKA, DAVID PETER —

Hard Cases (53)

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
18086015 ELECTRONIC WALLET APPLICATION EMERGENCY MODE LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE 141d overdue
18176247 DETERMINATION OF HANDHELD WIRELESS DEVICE CONDITION USING MACHINE LEARNED MODEL PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 31d overdue
18620519 Methods and Systems for Data Platform Monitoring and Auditing LIN, KATHERINE Y 5d overdue
18403260 NETWORK AS A SERVICE FOR CONTROLLING QUALITY ON DEMAND USING AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE DOAN, DUYEN MY 4d overdue
18592438 TECHNIQUES FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION ON EQUIPMENT NODES SABOURI, MAZDA 6d
18534345 Information Technology Framework For Measuring Performance of Business Capabilities of an Enterprise GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN 6d
18433694 COVERAGE EXTENSION AND RELIABILITY ENHANCEMENT FOR REDUCED CAPABILITY DEVICES PATEL, JAY P 14d
18590764 DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION TRANSFORMATION LE, THUYKHANH 21d

Interview Candidates (17)

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
18176247 DETERMINATION OF HANDHELD WIRELESS DEVICE CONDITION USING MACHINE LEARNED MODEL PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 31d overdue
18528363 AUTOMATED CREATION OF RICH NOTIFICATIONS FOR EMERGENCY DISTRIBUTION EL-ZOOBI, MARIA 24d overdue
18443156 MITIGATING SIGNAL INTERFERENCE FOR INCUMBENT COMMUNICATIONS STATIONS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATING BAND SABOURI, MAZDA 8d overdue
19089862 REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS OF A VEHICLE IN A PARKING GARAGE MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT 4d overdue
18592438 TECHNIQUES FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION ON EQUIPMENT NODES SABOURI, MAZDA 6d
17871275 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PCELL AND SCELL THROUGHPUT DISTRIBUTION KHAN, MEHMOOD B 22d
18535196 SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING CROSS-NETWORK VOICE PERFORMANCE JAIN, SWATI 46d
19006737 AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING A CALL ASSOCIATED WITH A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK AS AN OPEN-LINE CALL EL-ZOOBI, MARIA —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2646 9
2649 7
2643 7
2641 5
2469 5
2644 5
2419 5
2191 4
2476 4
2631 4

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19311739 ENSURING AVAILABILITY AND INTEGRITY OF A DATABASE ACROSS GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS WALDRON, SCOTT A 2156 Other Final Rejection — Pending Aug 27, 2025
19297492 DYNAMIC, COMPREHENSIVE, AND INTELLIGENT INTEGRATION OF TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK RESOURCES FOR BLOCKCHAIN OPERATIONS PALIWAL, YOGESH 2435 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 12, 2025
19281866 INTERFACE FOR CLUSTER API MONITORING AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE SAME HARMON, COURTNEY N 2159 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 28, 2025
19248416 GENERATION OF C-V2X EVENT MESSAGES FOR MACHINE LEARNING TRAN, DALENA 3661 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 24, 2025
19171145 CATEGORIZING CALLS USING EARLY CALL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS TULOP, JIRAPON INTAVONG 2693 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 04, 2025
19089862 REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS OF A VEHICLE IN A PARKING GARAGE MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT 3628 §103Other Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2025
19043368 CONFIGURING AD HOC CONTENT SERVERS BASED ON SERVER LOAD LIMITS CHOU, ALAN S 2451 DP Final Rejection — Pending Jan 31, 2025
19022553 ENABLING PEER-TO-PEER AUTHENTICATION BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO MOBILE DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OR MORE WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA 2641 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2025
19017349 SELECTIVE ROAMING IN WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON 2842 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 10, 2025
19006737 AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING A CALL ASSOCIATED WITH A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK AS AN OPEN-LINE CALL EL-ZOOBI, MARIA 2692 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 31, 2024
19006163 NETWORK SLICE RE-AUTHENTICATION AND REVOCATION USING CLOUD IDENTITY PROVIDERS HO, VIVIAN DANG 2497 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19006042 TRACKING SOURCE OF REQUESTS FOR LDAP OPERATIONS GADALLA, HANY S 2493 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
18972494 OPTIMIZING UPLINK BAND SCHEDULING OF CONTIGUOUS AND NON-CONTIGUOUS FREQUENCY RANGE 1 (FR1) AND FREQUENCY RANGE 2 (FR2) SPECTRUM HUA, QUAN M 2414 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 06, 2024
18970381 PROACTIVE NETWORK LOAD MANAGEMENT ZARKA, DAVID PETER 2449 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 05, 2024
18970581 SUBSCRIBER ANOMALY DETECTION AND SCORING USING RAN NETWORK DATA PEZZLO, JOHN 2469 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 05, 2024
18968894 IDENTIFYING STANDARDS-RELATED REQUIREMENTS FOR SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES USING TELECOMMUNICATION RESOURCES BROPHY, MATTHEW J 2191 §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2024
18957336 CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATION IN SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL SIGNALING CHAU, PETER P 2476 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18933989 LINK ADAPTATION WITH DYNAMIC BACKOFF OPTIMIZATION CHEN, ZHITONG 2649 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 31, 2024
18930708 FIFTH GENERATION (5G) STANDALONE (SA) UTILIZATION METRIC IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG 2462 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 29, 2024
18925019 ROBUST METHODS FOR DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION OF REMOTE SYSTEMS LONG, EDWARD X 2439 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 24, 2024
18923506 HYBRID TERRESTRIAL-SATELLITE NETWORK MANAGEMENT FOR INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICES BOLOURCHI, NADER 2631 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 22, 2024
18923296 WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ACCESS MANAGEMENT MCCALLUM, LATRESA A 2469 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 22, 2024
18920832 STORING ASSIGNED NETWORK NAMES USING OVER-THE-AIR (OTA) COMMUNICATION BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER 2484 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2024
18920815 INTERNATIONAL MOBILE SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY (IMSI) FOR A BOOTSTRAP PROFILE NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J 2649 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2024
18913936 SPLIT BILLING FOR A USER ACROSS DIFFERENT TRAFFIC TYPES PEREZ, JULIO R 2644 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 11, 2024
18911103 UNITARY TEST PROTOCOLS FOR SOFTWARE PROGRAM APPLICATIONS NGUYEN, PHILLIP H 2191 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 09, 2024
18904076 INTELLIGENT ACCESS TRAFFIC STEERING, SWITCHING, AND SPLITTING (ATSSS) TACDIRAN, ANDRE GEE 2415 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 01, 2024
18900347 FUTURE SITE CAPACITY CALCULATIONS AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER 2472 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18897330 TERMINAL-TRIGGERED DYNAMIC SLICE MODIFICATION WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 2443 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18898417 DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES AT USER EQUIPMENT SCHEIBEL, ROBERT C 2467 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18893794 SCHEDULING HARQ TRANSMISSIONS IN MINI-SLOTS CHU, WUTCHUNG 2418 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 23, 2024
18887009 ORCHESTRATING NETWORK SERVICE ACTIVITIES USING PREDICTED TRAFFIC SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL 2646 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 16, 2024
18829627 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING NETWORK ABNORMALITIES GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103DP Final Rejection 61d Pending Sep 10, 2024
18814921 TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZED AUTOMATED SOFTWARE UPDATE IMPLEMENTATION SOUGH, HYUNG SUB 2192 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 26, 2024
18807886 DYNAMIC, AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF CODE SAMPLES ASSOCIATED WITH DATA PIPELINE VALIDATION AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF THE SAME TRAN, TRAVIS VIET 2191 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2024
18807879 AUTOMATED, DYNAMIC GENERATION OF EXECUTABLE CODE SAMPLES FOR DATA PIPELINE VALIDATION AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF THE SAME JEON, JAE UK 2193 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2024
18807860 AUTOMATED SIMULATION-BASED DATA TRANSFORMATION VALIDATION AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF THE SAME SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2024
18791416 PROACTIVELY MOVING USER EQUIPMENT TO PREFERRED CELLGROUPS SHIVERS, ASHLEY L 2477 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2024
18778586 USER EQUIPMENT AUTO-DIALED EMERGENCY CALL MANAGEMENT LUBBERS, ANDREW J 2644 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 19, 2024
18764086 VERIFICATION OF SIM PRESENCE AT REPRESENTED LOCATION SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 2453 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jul 03, 2024
18756814 USING MACHINE LEARNING TO LOCATE MOBILE DEVICE SHAH, ANTIM G — §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 27, 2024
18747250 TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED USER EQUIPMENT CONNECTION INTERVAL TIMING BEAMER, TEMICA M 2646 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 18, 2024
18737265 MANAGING IP UTILIZATION IN SMFS AND UPFS VU, VIET D 2441 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18678566 EMERGENCY CALL CONTINUITY FOR INBOUND ROAMING UES LAM, DUNG LE 2646 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2024
18666770 SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION FOR RRC INACTIVE STATE CHU, WUTCHUNG 2418 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 16, 2024
18664276 CELL CLUSTER INTERLEAVING FOR NETWORK SERVICE ACTIVITIES JAIN, SWATI 2649 §101 Final Rejection — Pending May 14, 2024
18658230 User Plane System Selection Based on Latency DIVITO, WALTER J 2465 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending May 08, 2024
18651047 SIGNAL SCANNING AND SYMBOL PRESENTATION FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS NGUYEN, THERESA 2418 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 30, 2024
18643884 CLASSIFYING CUSTOMER'S INTENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) CHEN, BILL 3626 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Apr 23, 2024
18642676 DETECTING NUISANCE AND RESTRICTED COMMUNICATIONS VIA A COMMUNICATION PRIVILEGE CONTROL SYSTEM PATEL, HARESH N 2496 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does T-Mobile USA Inc. have?

T-Mobile USA Inc. has 187 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 100 art units and 170 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most T-Mobile USA Inc. applications?

Mehmood B Khan has the most, with 3 of T-Mobile USA Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are T-Mobile USA Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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