Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
389 pending office actions • 133 art units • 312 examiners • 0 of 389 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 999 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tencent Technology ( Shenzhen ) Company Limited currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio's technical scope is highly focused, with prosecution occurring in only 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN, is overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This lack of examiner overlap across the 2 pending office actions indicates a decentralized prosecution profile for the company's current applications in this area. With 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, each matter is receiving a unique individual review. This suggests that even with a very small number of pending actions, the company is interacting with multiple examiners. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical subject matter is very specific and falls under a single classification group. Practitioners should expect to manage two separate examiner relationships for these 2 pending office actions, despite their technical similarity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 75 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. 75 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 | 28 (7%) |
| §101 + other | 50 (13%) |
| §103 only | 163 (42%) |
| §102 only | 29 (7%) |
| §112 only | 8 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 15 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 89 (23%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 7 | 22.0% | +7.1% |
| THOMAS, ERIC M | 6 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
| NASRI, MARYAM A | 5 | 73.9% | +2.5% |
| HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 4 | 70.7% | +12.2% |
| GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 4 | 58.1% | +26.4% |
| WALKER, JARED T | 4 | 84.7% | +9.8% |
| ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E | 4 | 75.2% | +10.9% |
| LIMA, FABIO S | 3 | 77.3% | +14.6% |
| KWAN, MATTHEW K | 3 | 71.3% | +33.3% |
| ZEWEDE, ASTEWAYE GETTU | 3 | 80.3% | +38.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19331672 | ASYMMETRIC BLENDING FOR WEDGE-BASED PREDICTION AND GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING MODE | ZEWEDE, ASTEWAYE GETTU | — |
| 19236738 | TECHNIQUES OF INTRA PREDICTION | WALKER, JARED T | — |
| 19182164 | EXTENSIBLE SUPPLEMENTAL ENHANCEMENT INFORMATION FOR BINARY METADATA FOR VIDEO STREAMS | ZEWEDE, ASTEWAYE GETTU | — |
| 19182446 | MULTI-TEMPLATE DECODER SIDE INTRA MODE DERIVATION | ZEWEDE, ASTEWAYE GETTU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17722189 | DIGITAL SIGNATURE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 80d overdue |
| 18352702 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING VIRTUAL OBJECT, TERMINAL, STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | 60d overdue |
| 18662251 | VIRTUAL WORLD-BASED CAPTURE INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 35d overdue |
| 18640393 | AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 25d overdue |
| 18333692 | COORDINATE AXIS DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS APPLIED TO VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, TERMINAL, AND MEDIUM | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 17d overdue |
| 18321875 | VIRTUAL CHARACTER CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 17d overdue |
| 17672814 | DATA IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL | 4d overdue |
| 17667337 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DEVICE | CARVALHO, ERROL A | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17983975 | LOCAL WARP MOTION PREDICTION MODES | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 17d overdue |
| 18739499 | Virtual Scene Synchronization and Display | THOMAS, ERIC M | 3d overdue |
| 18805349 | SIGNALING FOR BLOCK PARTITIONING | ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E | 15d |
| 18624728 | EFFICIENT ACTIVATION FUNCTION IN NEURAL NETWORK IMAGE COMPRESSION DECODER | ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E | 55d |
| 18308302 | SETTING MAXIMUM NUMBER OF IBC CANDIDATES BASED ON MAXIMUM NUMBER OF MERGE CANDIDATES | ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E | 70d |
| 19337791 | ADAPTIVE RANGE FOR CLIPPING PROCESSES FOR VIDEO AND IMAGE COMPRESSION | LIMA, FABIO S | — |
| 19333150 | CHROMA BLOCK VECTOR AND CHROMA CODING MODE DERIVATION | KWAN, MATTHEW K | — |
| 19331672 | ASYMMETRIC BLENDING FOR WEDGE-BASED PREDICTION AND GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING MODE | ZEWEDE, ASTEWAYE GETTU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 59 |
| 2482 | 19 |
| 2487 | 16 |
| 2486 | 13 |
| 2485 | 10 |
| 2484 | 9 |
| 2483 | 9 |
| 2481 | 9 |
| 2617 | 8 |
| 2611 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19372078 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WARP MODE SIGNALING | BENNETT, STUART D | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19370652 | METHOD FOR AFFINE MOTION REFINEMENT | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2484 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19365037 | LOW COMPLEXITY SECONDARY TRANSFORM FOR TRANSFORM BLOCKS USING 1D PRIMARY TRANSFORMS | BENNETT, STUART D | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19361355 | Improvement for Intra Mode Coding | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2484 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19355934 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19349812 | POLARIZATION BASED DUAL IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM | ELAHI, TOWFIQ | 2625 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19349850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARAMETERIZING ARITHMETIC CODER PROBABILITY UPDATE RATES | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2483 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19343707 | METHOD FOR ALIGNMENT ACROSS LAYERS | SHAHNAMI, AMIR | 2483 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19341641 | ENTROPY CODING A SECONDARY TRANSFORM INDEX BASED ON PRIMARY TRANSFORM TYPE | TRUONG, NGUYEN T | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19337794 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CROSS-COMPONENT GEOMETRIC/WEDGELET PARTITION DERIVATION | MCFALL, CHRISTIAN PAUL | 2483 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19337791 | ADAPTIVE RANGE FOR CLIPPING PROCESSES FOR VIDEO AND IMAGE COMPRESSION | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19337727 | BLOCK VECTOR REFINEMENT METHOD FOR INTRA BLOCK COPY | PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19333150 | CHROMA BLOCK VECTOR AND CHROMA CODING MODE DERIVATION | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 2482 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19331672 | ASYMMETRIC BLENDING FOR WEDGE-BASED PREDICTION AND GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING MODE | ZEWEDE, ASTEWAYE GETTU | 2481 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19328762 | METHOD FOR PADDING PROCESSING WITH SUB-REGION PARTITIONS IN VIDEO STREAM | HOLDER, ANNER N | 2484 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19321139 | PARAMETER DERIVATION FOR MULTI-HYPOTHESIS CROSS-COMPONENT PREDICTION (MHCCP) | AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B | 2488 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19321146 | SUBBLOCK TRANSFORM FOR INTRA PREDICTION CODING BLOCK | CZEKAJ, DAVID J | 2488 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19321142 | INTRA BI-PREDICTION | DHILLON, PUNEET S | 2488 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19321145 | DECODER-SIDE INTRA MODE DERIVATION GUIDED BY BLOCK VECTOR WITH ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM | CHIO, TAT CHI | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19318160 | SIGNALING OF DOWNSAMPLING FILTERS FOR CHROMA FROM LUMA INTRA PREDICTION MODE | OWENS, TSION B | 2487 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19311580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTRA BLOCK COPY (INTRABC) MODE CODING WITH SEARCH RANGE RESTRICTIONS | ZHOU, ZHIHAN | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19310821 | SKIP MODE SIGNALING FOR VIDEO CODING | BECKER, JOSEPH W | 2483 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19306879 | VQ BASED TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT COMPENSATION | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 2481 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19301863 | INHERITED TRANSFORM TYPE IN A MERGE CANDIDATE LIST | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 2481 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301810 | REFERENCE PICTURE BOUNDARY EXTENSION BY EXTRAPOLATION | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301898 | CODING TREE BLOCK PARTITIONING | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 2485 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301853 | SIGNALING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES IN VIDEO BITSTREAMS | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 2485 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301905 | CODED INFORMATION DERIVATION FOR INTER PREDICTION | SIANGCHIN, KEVIN | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19300603 | ADAPTIVE BI-DIRECTIONAL SAMPLE BASED OPTICAL FLOW ON GPM WITH BI-PREDICTIVE MOTION VECTOR | BOYLAN, JAMES T | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19299294 | CROSS-COMPONENT RESIDUAL PREDICTION ON CHROMA SIGNALING AND INTRATMP MODE | MAHMUD, FARHAN | 2483 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19290232 | METHOD FOR WRAP AROUND MOTION COMPENSATION WITH REFERENCE PICTURE RESAMPLING | JEAN BAPTISTE, JERRY T | 2481 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19277024 | Adaptive Resolution for Motion Vector Difference | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2484 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19266145 | TECHNIQUES FOR IN-LOOP FILTERING | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19261792 | INTRA TEMPLATE MATCHING PREDICTION SIGNALING | WALKER, JARED T | 2426 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19261875 | IMPROVEMENT FOR INTRA MODE CODING | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 2482 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19262006 | BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL FLOW ON GPM WITH BI-PREDICTIVE MOTION VECTOR | MAHMUD, FARHAN | 2483 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19259985 | ADAPTIVE USAGE OF DECODER SIDE MOTION VECTOR REFINEMENT AND BIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL FLOW | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19258791 | GRADIENT AND LOCATION BASED FILTERED INTRA BLOCK COPY | HODGES, SUSAN E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19258786 | BLOCK-LEVEL SIGN PREDICTION ADAPTATION | HUANG, FRANK F | 2485 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19258864 | MULTIPLE LINE INTRA PREDICTION IN VIDEO COMPRESSION | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19250011 | PALETTE PREDICTOR GENERATION AND SIGNALING | KIR, ALBERT | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19249796 | INTRA MODE SELECTION AND SIGNALING | HASAN, MAINUL | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19247250 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TEMPORAL RESAMPLING MODES AND TEMPORAL RESAMPLING POST FILTERING | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 2485 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19246048 | ADAPTIVE CONSTRAINT ON BI-PREDICTION FOR OUT-OF-BOUNDARY CONDITIONS | CHANG, DANIEL | 2487 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19242322 | GEOMETRIC PARTITION BASED INTRA PREDICTION | DEMOSKY, PATRICK E | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19236738 | TECHNIQUES OF INTRA PREDICTION | WALKER, JARED T | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19234152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECODING INCLUDING NETWORK ABSTRACTION LAYER UNIT STRUCTURE WITH PICTURE HEADER | KIR, ALBERT | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19216658 | SIGNALING AND FILTERING OF TEMPLATE AND FLEXIBLE PARTITION SPLIT | MUNG, ON S | 4100 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19212580 | ANGULAR INTRA PREDICTION | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 2482 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19205593 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MULTI-SYMBOL ARITHMETIC CODING | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited has 389 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 133 art units and 312 examiners.
Michael Christopher Grant has the most, with 7 of Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
