Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
398 pending office actions • 147 art units • 325 examiners • 0 of 398 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1,018 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. 85 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. 85 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 | 27 (7%) |
| §101 + other | 52 (13%) |
| §103 only | 162 (41%) |
| §102 only | 29 (7%) |
| §112 only | 8 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 12 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 9 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 96 (24%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, ERIC M | 6 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 5 | 21.8% | +7.4% |
| HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 4 | 70.5% | +12.4% |
| MAHMUD, FARHAN | 4 | 56.3% | +9.7% |
| WALKER, JARED T | 4 | 84.6% | +9.8% |
| BENNETT, STUART D | 3 | 68.9% | -14.3% |
| GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 3 | 58.1% | +26.4% |
| NASRI, MARYAM A | 3 | 73.6% | +2.7% |
| PEREZ FUENTES, LUIS M | 3 | 83.8% | -17.9% |
| JEBARI, MOHAMMED | 3 | 55.9% | +15.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19236738 | TECHNIQUES OF INTRA PREDICTION | WALKER, JARED T | — |
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 |
| 18140604 | DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME BATTLE INFORMATION, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | THOMAS, ERIC M | 44d overdue |
| 18662251 | VIRTUAL WORLD-BASED CAPTURE INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 35d overdue |
| 18225954 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, READABLE MEDIUM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | HAFIZ, HAMID TARIQ | 28d overdue |
| 18590124 | VEHICLE POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BUSE, TERRY C | 17d 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140604 | DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME BATTLE INFORMATION, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | THOMAS, ERIC M | 44d overdue |
| 17983975 | LOCAL WARP MOTION PREDICTION MODES | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 17d overdue |
| 18739499 | Virtual Scene Synchronization and Display | THOMAS, ERIC M | 3d overdue |
| 19081844 | MPM LIST CONSTRUCTION | JEBARI, MOHAMMED | 1d overdue |
| 19306879 | VQ BASED TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT COMPENSATION | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | — |
| 19301898 | CODING TREE BLOCK PARTITIONING | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | — |
| 19301863 | INHERITED TRANSFORM TYPE IN A MERGE CANDIDATE LIST | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | — |
| 19301853 | SIGNALING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES IN VIDEO BITSTREAMS | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 51 |
| 2482 | 20 |
| 2483 | 17 |
| 2481 | 14 |
| 2486 | 12 |
| 2487 | 12 |
| 2485 | 9 |
| 2617 | 8 |
| 2611 | 8 |
| 2614 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19372078 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WARP MODE SIGNALING | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 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 |
| 19337727 | BLOCK VECTOR REFINEMENT METHOD FOR INTRA BLOCK COPY | PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19328762 | METHOD FOR PADDING PROCESSING WITH SUB-REGION PARTITIONS IN VIDEO STREAM | HOLDER, ANNER N | 2483 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 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 |
| 19321146 | SUBBLOCK TRANSFORM FOR INTRA PREDICTION CODING BLOCK | CZEKAJ, DAVID J | 2488 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 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 |
| 19301898 | CODING TREE BLOCK PARTITIONING | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 2485 | §102§103§112 | 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 |
| 19301863 | INHERITED TRANSFORM TYPE IN A MERGE CANDIDATE LIST | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 2481 | §102§103 | 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 |
| 19301853 | SIGNALING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES IN VIDEO BITSTREAMS | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 2485 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19300617 | ADAPTIVE FILTER FOR DECODER-SIDE INTRA MODE DERIVATION | ANDERSON II, JAMES M | 2425 | §102§103 | 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 |
| 19290183 | SIGNALING PRESENCE OF CHROMA COMPONENT IN VIDEO BITSTREAM | ZHOU, ZHIHAN | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 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 | 2483 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19266145 | TECHNIQUES FOR IN-LOOP FILTERING | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2483 | §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 |
| 19258864 | MULTIPLE LINE INTRA PREDICTION IN VIDEO COMPRESSION | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §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 |
| 19249796 | INTRA MODE SELECTION AND SIGNALING | HASAN, MAINUL | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19250011 | PALETTE PREDICTOR GENERATION AND SIGNALING | KIR, ALBERT | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19249759 | TRANSFORM SELECTION FOR TEMPLATE MATCHING BASED INTRA PREDICTION AT SUBBLOCK LEVEL | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 2424 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19247919 | DERIVATION OF TRIANGULAR PREDICTION INFORMATION | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 2482 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19246048 | ADAPTIVE CONSTRAINT ON BI-PREDICTION FOR OUT-OF-BOUNDARY CONDITIONS | CHANG, DANIEL | 2482 | §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 |
| 19239334 | MODE LIST GENERATION FOR MULTI-LINE INTRA PREDICTION | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19236738 | TECHNIQUES OF INTRA PREDICTION | WALKER, JARED T | 2482 | §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 |
| 19207248 | CROSS-COMPONENT SAMPLE OFFSET (CCSO) | NAVAS JR, EDEMIO | 2483 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19205593 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MULTI-SYMBOL ARITHMETIC CODING | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19205928 | HARDWARE FRIENDLY BLOCK LEVEL ADAPTIVE WEIGHTED PREDICTION | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 4100 | §102§103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19205110 | MEDIA ACCESS FUNCTION/PLAYER INITIALIZATION METHOD FOR 5G MEDIA STREAMING UNIQUE SESSION MANAGEMENT | KAZI, SAYEEM MUHAMMAD | 2455 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19205829 | ADAPTIVE COLOR TRANSFORM PERFORMED WITH PREDICTION CODING | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 2485 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19203445 | DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS OF CONTENT STEERING IN 5G MEDIA STREAMING | SALCE, JASON P | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19201830 | FRAME CONTEXT PROBABILITY MODEL INITIALIZATION USING WEIGHTED AVERAGING OF TILE OR SLICE CONTEXT PROBABILITY MODELS | PEREZ FUENTES, LUIS M | 2481 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19201825 | SELECTION AND SIGNALING OF SECONDARY REFERENCE FRAME FOR IMPROVING CONTEXT PROBABILITY MODEL INITIALIZATION | PEREZ FUENTES, LUIS M | 2481 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19201821 | SELECTION OF MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAMES FOR WEIGHTED AVERAGING PROBABILITY MODEL | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 2482 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19200273 | HARMONIZED DESIGN FOR INTRA BI-PREDICTION AND MULTIPLE REFERENCE LINE SELECTION | ABOUZAHRA, HESHAM K | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19183639 | COMPUTING PRIORITIES OF ACTIVE VERTICES IN POLYGON MESH COMPRESSION | ANDERSON II, JAMES M | 2425 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited has 398 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 147 art units and 325 examiners.
Eric M Thomas has the most, with 6 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.