Technology area: Networking & Security
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Uab 360 It has 8 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The docket spans 8 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, reflecting broad examiner dispersion with limited art-unit overlap.
LOUIE, HOWARD H is the busiest examiner and handles 1 pending matter. The absence of a concentrated examiner workload makes standardized prosecution tracking particularly important.
The difference between examiner and art-unit coverage indicates that at least one art unit contains more than one examiner assignment. Counsel can organize technical issues by art unit, then tailor claim amendments and prior-art arguments to each examiner’s record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 4 (44%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIE, HOWARD H | 1 | 81.9% | +59.7% |
| LEE, BRYAN Y | 1 | 67.4% | +40.7% |
| DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | 1 | 49.4% | +52.6% |
| FAYED, RASHA K | 1 | 63.4% | +25.8% |
| PARK, SANGSEOK | 1 | 84.0% | +14.9% |
| BROWN, ANTHONY D | 1 | 85.5% | +15.0% |
| RUBIN, BLAKE J | 1 | 76.1% | -3.5% |
| KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 1 | 80.5% | +33.6% |
| POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 1 | 37.7% | +23.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18152476 | MULTI-LEVEL MALWARE CLASSIFICATION MACHINE-LEARNING METHOD AND SYSTEM | KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 7d |
| 18923975 | OPTIMIZED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | PARK, SANGSEOK | 27d |
| 18920962 | OPTIMIZED ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | BROWN, ANTHONY D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169665 | SHARING DATA IN AN ORGANIZED STORAGE SYSTEM | LOUIE, HOWARD H | — |
| 19068833 | VPN SERVER SELECTION BASED ON INTENDED NETWORK USAGE | LEE, BRYAN Y | — |
| 19048178 | Enhanced Privacy Preserving Access To A VPN Service | DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18152476 | MULTI-LEVEL MALWARE CLASSIFICATION MACHINE-LEARNING METHOD AND SYSTEM | KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 7d |
| 18923975 | OPTIMIZED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | PARK, SANGSEOK | 27d |
| 19169665 | SHARING DATA IN AN ORGANIZED STORAGE SYSTEM | LOUIE, HOWARD H | — |
| 19068833 | VPN SERVER SELECTION BASED ON INTENDED NETWORK USAGE | LEE, BRYAN Y | — |
| 19048178 | Enhanced Privacy Preserving Access To A VPN Service | DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | — |
| 18977846 | OPTIMIZED UTILIZATION OF INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES IN A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK | FAYED, RASHA K | — |
| 18920962 | OPTIMIZED ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | BROWN, ANTHONY D | — |
| 17539354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING URLS USING RENDERED CONTENT MACHINE LEARNING | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2494 | 2 |
| 2445 | 1 |
| 2498 | 1 |
| 2499 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169665 | SHARING DATA IN AN ORGANIZED STORAGE SYSTEM | LOUIE, HOWARD H | 2494 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19068833 | VPN SERVER SELECTION BASED ON INTENDED NETWORK USAGE | LEE, BRYAN Y | 2445 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19048178 | Enhanced Privacy Preserving Access To A VPN Service | DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | 2498 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18977846 | OPTIMIZED UTILIZATION OF INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES IN A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK | FAYED, RASHA K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18923975 | OPTIMIZED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | PARK, SANGSEOK | 2499 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18920962 | OPTIMIZED ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | BROWN, ANTHONY D | 2408 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2024 |
| 18887795 | DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DURING VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK CONNECTION | RUBIN, BLAKE J | 2457 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18152476 | MULTI-LEVEL MALWARE CLASSIFICATION MACHINE-LEARNING METHOD AND SYSTEM | KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 17539354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING URLS USING RENDERED CONTENT MACHINE LEARNING | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 2432 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUab 360 It has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 9 examiners.
Howard H Louie has the most, with 1 of Uab 360 It's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
