Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

T-Mobile Usa Inc.

71 pending office actions • 48 art units • 67 examiners • 0 of 71 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 297 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

71
Total Pending OAs
51
Non-Final OAs
20
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 71 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

34
Overdue
5
Due this week
22
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 71 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (34)Due ≤ 7 days (5)Due ≤ 30 days (22)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (5)

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.

1
Hard (1%)
61
Medium (86%)
3
Easy (4%)
6
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§103 only56 (79%)
§102 only5 (7%)
§112 only3 (4%)
No statute on record6 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
38
Information Tech
54% of docket
28
Communications
39% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

710 h
Manual time on pending OAs
142 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
248 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BATAILLE, FRANTZ 2 81.7% +0.2%
SABOURI, MAZDA 2 77.2% +16.7%
JAIN, RAJ K 2 87.7% +7.6%
DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE 2 75.0% +50.0%
MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT 1 43.6% +48.0%
SHENG, TOM V 1 90.8% +8.0%
ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S 1 88.3% +11.9%
CHANG, KENNETH W 1 86.7% +0.8%
NAJI, YOUNES 1 75.0% +72.8%
COULTER, KENNETH R 1 86.7% -4.9%

Quick Wins (7)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19081802 STIMULUS-RESPONSIVE DEPTH-CHANGING DISPLAY SHENG, TOM V 43d overdue
18935228 DETECTING MALICIOUS SMALL CELLS BASED ON A CONNECTIVITY SCHEDULE CHANG, KENNETH W 16d overdue
18908359 SEAMLESS VOICE CALL INITIATION COULTER, KENNETH R 9d overdue
18146594 SERVICE TYPE INDICATOR IN USER ASSISTANCE INFORMATION MESSAGING JAIN, RAJ K 9d overdue
18590694 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECTRUM REFARMING OF A CELL SITE ON A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK JAIN, RAJ K 12d
18586412 ENHANCED MOBILITY NODE OUTAGE IMPACT REPORTING BATAILLE, FRANTZ 26d
18595908 TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESOURCE CONNECTIVITY VIA PROACTIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ERROR DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS BATAILLE, FRANTZ 62d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18898596 CUSTOMER CARE TOPIC COVERAGE DETERMINATION AND COACHING KNIGHT, LETORIA G 42d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18957456 MOBILE AERIAL DRONE EARLY WARNING PRIVACY BREACH DETECT, INTERCEPT, AND DEFEND SYSTEMS AND METHODS ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S 32d 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
18478321 MODIFICATION OF TRANSMISSION OF USER-INDICATED MESSAGES AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF THE SAME DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE 2d overdue
18908580 ON-DEVICE LATENCY DETECTION NAJI, YOUNES 5d
18592438 TECHNIQUES FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION ON EQUIPMENT NODES SABOURI, MAZDA 6d
18516715 TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR BLOCKING SPOOFED CALLS DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE 9d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2445 4
2646 4
2443 3
2461 3
2411 3
2647 3
2438 2
2453 2
2681 2
2641 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19089862 REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS OF A VEHICLE IN A PARKING GARAGE MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2025
19081802 STIMULUS-RESPONSIVE DEPTH-CHANGING DISPLAY SHENG, TOM V 2628 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2025
18957456 MOBILE AERIAL DRONE EARLY WARNING PRIVACY BREACH DETECT, INTERCEPT, AND DEFEND SYSTEMS AND METHODS ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S 3662 Other Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2024
18935228 DETECTING MALICIOUS SMALL CELLS BASED ON A CONNECTIVITY SCHEDULE CHANG, KENNETH W 2438 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2024
18908580 ON-DEVICE LATENCY DETECTION NAJI, YOUNES 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 07, 2024
18908359 SEAMLESS VOICE CALL INITIATION COULTER, KENNETH R 2445 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2024
18898596 CUSTOMER CARE TOPIC COVERAGE DETERMINATION AND COACHING KNIGHT, LETORIA G 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18829627 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING NETWORK ABNORMALITIES GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Sep 10, 2024
18793629 MODIFIED MEDIA DETECTION SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2024
18789661 UE SELF-INITIATED VERIFICATION OF SIM PRESENCE WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 2443 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jul 30, 2024
18786244 SELF-CONTAINED, SOLAR-POWERED, AND PORTABLE CONNECTED CAMERA STATION FOSSELMAN, JOEL W 2639 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jul 26, 2024
18764086 VERIFICATION OF SIM PRESENCE AT REPRESENTED LOCATION SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 2453 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jul 03, 2024
18733020 SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED EMERGENCY CALLBACK ELAHEE, MD S 2694 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jun 04, 2024
18674466 Spam Telephone Call Reducer HASHEM, LISA 2692 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 24, 2024
18668117 DYNAMIC PCRF/PCF SELECTION HARLEY, JASON A 2468 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending May 17, 2024
18643884 CLASSIFYING CUSTOMER'S INTENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) CHEN, BILL 3626 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Apr 23, 2024
18620867 TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED SERVICE CALL SESSION INITIATION ELFERVIG, TAYLOR A 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18620815 TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED SERVICE SESSION INITIATION LAMONT, BENJAMIN S 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18595908 TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESOURCE CONNECTIVITY VIA PROACTIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ERROR DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS BATAILLE, FRANTZ 2681 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18593129 MONITORING A USER'S ENVIRONMENT TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL THREATS TO THE USER SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL 2673 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18592438 TECHNIQUES FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION ON EQUIPMENT NODES SABOURI, MAZDA 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18590694 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECTRUM REFARMING OF A CELL SITE ON A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK JAIN, RAJ K 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 28, 2024
18586412 ENHANCED MOBILITY NODE OUTAGE IMPACT REPORTING BATAILLE, FRANTZ 2681 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18584846 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUBSCRIBER DATA INTEGRITY ASSUANCE AND AUTO-CORRECTIONS MOORE, IAN N 2469 §112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18582639 TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TO REDUCE CELLULAR NETWORK OUTAGES WINDER, PATRICE L 2453 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2024
18443156 MITIGATING SIGNAL INTERFERENCE FOR INCUMBENT COMMUNICATIONS STATIONS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATING BAND SABOURI, MAZDA 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18441351 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING ROGUE BASE STATIONS NIPA, WASIKA 2433 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18439571 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE (VSIM) FRAUD DETECTION DOAN, PHUOC HUU 2646 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18438056 ENHANCING VOICEMAIL ACCESSIBILITY FOR MOBILE VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATORS (MVNO) USERS THROUGH A MEDIA STORAGE SYSTEM VO, DON NGUYEN 2634 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2024
18425015 EFFICIENT SESSION MANAGEMENT FUNCTION SELECTION LIN, WILL W 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18423746 PRIORITY-BASED BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION KIM, CHONG G 2443 §102 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2024
18416656 DELETION OF DUPLICATE TAC RANGES IN 5GC DUONG, DUC T 2467 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 18, 2024
18407272 ENABLING A HOME DEVICE TO OPERATE ON A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK AND INTERACT WITH A SECOND MOBILE DEVICE OPERATING ON THE NETWORK LEE, SIU M 2632 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 08, 2024
18404821 OPTIMIZING WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS IN A COMBINED NETWORK USING CONTROLLERS MOORE JR, MICHAEL J 2467 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 04, 2024
18399211 CALL CONTEXT REQUEST PRIOR TO ANSWER ZENATI, AMAL S 2693 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Dec 28, 2023
18536020 PROTECTING A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK USING NETWORK COMPONENTS AS BLOCKCHAIN NODES JEUDY, JOSNEL 2438 Final Rejection 23d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18535196 SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING CROSS-NETWORK VOICE PERFORMANCE JAIN, SWATI 2649 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18525133 Wireless Telecommunication Using Subframes WU, JIANYE 2462 Other Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18520268 GEOFENCING NETWORK ACCESS FOR FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS DEVICES CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO 2649 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18516715 TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR BLOCKING SPOOFED CALLS DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE 2646 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18508505 BASE STATION PROVIDING VIRTUAL WIRELESS ROUTER IQBAL, KHAWAR 2643 §103 Non-Final OA 118d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2023
18507021 PROVIDING A USER-TAILORED ANSWER TO A QUERY FROM A UE OPERATING ON A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK MAY, ROBERT F 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18484353 PREDICTION-DRIVEN MOBILE BROADCAST SIVJI, NIZAR N 2647 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Oct 10, 2023
18478321 MODIFICATION OF TRANSMISSION OF USER-INDICATED MESSAGES AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF THE SAME DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE 2646 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18467673 AUTHENTICATING A USER OF A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK BASED ON A NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN INDICATING AN ATTRIBUTE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOBILE DEVICE OPERATING ON THE WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK NOEL, LYDIA LOUIS-FILS 2437 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18464154 CALL SERVICE INTEGRATION FOR INTERNET-OF-THINGS DEVICES BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2419 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18455974 STORING AUTHENTICATION DATA ON AUSF MILLER, BRANDON J 2647 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18366554 NETWORK CAPACITY AUGMENTATION BASED ON CAPACITY UTILIZATION DATA AND USING MOBILE NETWORK ACCESS NODES SAIFUDDIN, AHMED 2475 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2023
18356957 MULTIFUNCTIONAL, BUILDING-EDGE WIRELESS ACCESS POINT CHERY, DADY 2418 Other Final Rejection 16d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18355311 CREATING A GRAMMAR REPRESENTING MULTIPLE CONCEPTS AND MULTIPLE RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON A CORPUS OF DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK MASTERS, KRISTEN MICHELLE 2659 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jul 19, 2023
18350485 SELECTION OF EMERGENCY NUMBERS BASED ON EMERGENCY TEST PARAMETER OBAYANJU, OMONIYI 2645 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18339739 LOCATION-BASED COMPUTER-ALTERED REALITY DATA RENDERING MANAGEMENT USING RENDERING ORIENTED CHARACTERISTIC DATA COCHRAN, BRIANNA RENAE 2615 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18197034 UE-BASED INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION IN 5G NETWORKS CHEN, JUNPENG 2645 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending May 12, 2023
18196176 PROXIMITY-BASED MESSAGING GAO, JING 2647 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 11, 2023
18312447 MANAGING WORKLOAD REQUESTS ON KUBERNETES CLUSTERS AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE SAME ZHAO, BING 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending May 04, 2023
18126685 INCIDENT MANAGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE 2644 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 27, 2023
18180842 INTELLIGENT CARRIER AGGREGATION FOR TWO-WAY TRAFFIC KWAK, JAEYOUNG 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18176247 DETERMINATION OF HANDHELD WIRELESS DEVICE CONDITION USING MACHINE LEARNED MODEL PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18174566 TRAFFIC STEERING IN FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORK KHAN, MEHMOOD B 2419 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18111417 MICRO-LEVEL NETWORK NODE FAILOVER SYSTEM TRUONG, LOAN 2114 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Feb 17, 2023
18170458 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALTERING USER EQUIPMENT CAPABILITY ON NETWORK SLICES BEDNASH, JOSEPH A 2461 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18108448 NETWORK EQUIPMENT OPERATION ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM JAKOVAC, RYAN J 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18146594 SERVICE TYPE INDICATOR IN USER ASSISTANCE INFORMATION MESSAGING JAIN, RAJ K 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2022
18069120 FLEXIBLE ROUTING CONTROL IN INTERNET PROTOCOL MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM (IMS) CHAKRAVARTHY, LATHA 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Dec 20, 2022
18075201 AUTOMATED STATUS DETERMINATION OF EVENTS COLLECTED IN RECORDS FOR NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDER KE, PENG 2194 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022
18052317 Network and Devices That Support Different Frequency Separations KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17888316 METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY BLOCKING SUBSCRIBER DATA WHILE ROAMING SAMS, MATTHEW C 2646 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 15, 2022
17751312 ENABLING LOW-POWER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A UE AND A NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending May 23, 2022
17581793 MACHINE TO MACHINE COMMUNICATION ACCELERATION VIA ENCRYPTION BYPASS DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2022
17409312 PERFORMANCE PROFILER OF THIRD PARTY AUTOMATIONS HEFFINGTON, JOHN M 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 23, 2021
16872729 DETECTING INDOOR/OUTDOOR STATUS OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL 2642 §103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending May 12, 2020

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