Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
110 pending office actions • 66 art units • 102 examiners • 0 of 110 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 352 patents granted in the last 365 days
Verizon Communications Inc. manages 113 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 69 distinct art units, reflecting a very broad technical footprint in the communications and networking sectors. The involvement of 104 distinct examiners indicates that the company's prosecution is highly decentralized, with almost every pending action being reviewed by a different individual.
HAMMONDS, MARCUS C is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. In a portfolio of 113 total actions, the fact that the busiest examiner handles 3 cases highlights a lack of examiner concentration. This means that the company's legal strategy must be prepared for 104 different sets of examiner preferences and interpretations across the 69 art units.
The presence of 69 distinct art units for 113 pending office actions shows that the company's innovations are spread across many specialized technical domains. Because the work is distributed among 104 distinct examiners, the company cannot rely on a few key relationships at the USPTO. Instead, the strategy for these 113 actions must be highly individualized to meet the specific demands of the many different art units and examiners involved in the Networking & Security sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 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. 23 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 | 4 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 17 (15%) |
| §103 only | 58 (53%) |
| §102 only | 4 (4%) |
| §112 only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 21 (19%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 3 | 67.5% | +37.9% |
| HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | 3 | 71.6% | +29.0% |
| VU, VIET D | 2 | 84.2% | +14.4% |
| HARLEY, JASON A | 2 | 67.3% | +31.4% |
| DWYER, MATTHEW JAMES | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CHOI, WON JUN | 2 | 71.8% | +10.6% |
| MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | 1 | 80.5% | +16.4% |
| BAYARD, DJENANE M | 1 | 83.7% | +1.1% |
| GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.5% | +12.1% |
| TRUONG, THONG P | 1 | 82.2% | +15.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19447877 | MITIGATING MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC | MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | — |
| 19229111 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED MULTI-LAYERED SECURITY WITH ENCRYPTION MODELS THAT IMPROVE ZERO-TRUST ARCHITECTURES | TRUONG, THONG P | — |
| 18933283 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR BACKUP AND RESTORATIVE CONNECTIVITY SERVICE | VU, VIET D | — |
| 18919705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING A CONCEALED IDENTIFIER FOR A FIFTH GENERATION STANDALONE CAPABLE DEVICE | VU, VIET D | — |
| 18605266 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING INFORMATION RELATING TO SMALL CELL BASE STATIONS | DWYER, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423386 | PERFORMANCE INDICATOR ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING FOR A COMMUNICATION NETWORK | BARRY, LANCE LEONARD | 138d overdue |
| 18128316 | SOFTWARE IMAGE UPDATING FOR PLUGGABLE DEVICE | NAJI, YOUNES | 87d overdue |
| 17930452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTENT-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT | HU, SELINA ELISA | 84d overdue |
| 17366209 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANONYMOUS PASS-PHRASE AUTHENTICATION | DHAKAD, RUPALI | 4d overdue |
| 18316983 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING MEANINGFUL PHRASES AND A CRUX OF A CONVERSATION FROM TEXT DATA | PHAKOUSONH, DARAVANH | 6d |
| 18185125 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMODAL SUPPORT | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 13d |
| 18787375 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNING BASED ON DENOISED CLUSTERS | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 15d |
| 18591671 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES | SHAH, BHAVIN D | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18066597 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SESSION SETUP OR REGISTRATION IN A CORE NETWORK | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | 31d overdue |
| 18347173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIPLE WIRELESS CAMERAS ASSOCIATED WITH A USER EQUIPMENT DEVICE | CHOI, WON JUN | 2d overdue |
| 18452921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING QUALITY OF SERVICE PROFILES BASED ON OBSERVED FLOW DATA RATES | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | 34d |
| 18366796 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGISTRATION SUPPORT | HAMMONDS, MARCUS C | 54d |
| 19447877 | MITIGATING MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC | MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | — |
| 19284792 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING A DRIVING AGENT BASED ON REAL-WORLD DRIVING DATA | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | — |
| 19229111 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED MULTI-LAYERED SECURITY WITH ENCRYPTION MODELS THAT IMPROVE ZERO-TRUST ARCHITECTURES | TRUONG, THONG P | — |
| 18933283 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR BACKUP AND RESTORATIVE CONNECTIVITY SERVICE | VU, VIET D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2647 | 5 |
| 2646 | 4 |
| 2447 | 3 |
| 2455 | 3 |
| 2641 | 3 |
| 2468 | 3 |
| 2411 | 3 |
| 2444 | 2 |
| 2168 | 2 |
| 2478 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19447877 | MITIGATING MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC | MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | 2499 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2026 |
| 19324339 | Anomaly Detection In Copper Networks | BAYARD, DJENANE M | 2444 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19284792 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING A DRIVING AGENT BASED ON REAL-WORLD DRIVING DATA | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19229111 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED MULTI-LAYERED SECURITY WITH ENCRYPTION MODELS THAT IMPROVE ZERO-TRUST ARCHITECTURES | TRUONG, THONG P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19079724 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RUGGEDIZED OPTICAL-TO-ELECTRICAL AND PROTOCOL CONVERSION | AGUIAR, JOHNNY B | 2447 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19070765 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOKEN CACHING IN DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS | KENNEDY, LESA M | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19048924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING CHATBOT COMMUNICATION SESSIONS TO REDUCE ESCALATION | HUSSAIN, IMAD | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2025 |
| 19044678 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL GENERATION AND ANOMALOUS EVENT DETECTION | DOAN, HUAN V | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19042294 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMERGENCY BROADCAST USING DELEGATED DISCOVERY | EL-ZOOBI, MARIA | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19032653 | PLMN ROAMING FOR PRIVATE NETWORK SUBSCRIBERS | DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19020130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING RELEVANCE OF INFORMATION BEING ADDED TO A KNOWLEDGE BASE | HU, XIAOQIN | 2168 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18981755 | INTENT INTELLIGENCE LAYER FOR NETWORK COMPONENTS | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | 2161 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18979853 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING INTENTS BASED ON CALL OR CHAT TRANSCRIPTS | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | 2653 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18971902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING A UNIQUE ROUTING INDICATOR TO CONNECT TO A NETWORK | PEREZ, ANGELICA | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18969766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELF-SUPERVISED TRAINING OF A BIRD’S EYE VIEW SEMANTIC MAPPING MODEL | DUONG, JOHNNYKHOI BAO | 2667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18964392 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI/ML-BASED PAIRING OF SUPPORT REQUESTS TO SUPPORT AGENTS | BOSWELL, BETH V | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2024 |
| 18962142 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FRAUDULENT CALL DETECTION VIA DUAL-MODEL ANTICIPATION MECHANISM | AHMED, ZAIN JIM | 2432 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18962776 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR REESTABLISHMENT CONNECTIVITY SERVICE | SIVJI, NIZAR N | 2647 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18957055 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BIG DATA PIPELINE PROCESSES | MOBIN, HASANUL | 2168 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18934416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CABLE IDENTIFICATION | RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN | 2877 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18933283 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR BACKUP AND RESTORATIVE CONNECTIVITY SERVICE | VU, VIET D | 2455 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18927343 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATION OF DOWNLOADS OF ESIM PROFILES | APPIAH, CHARLES NANA | 2641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18924146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING TRAFFIC OF A PRIVATE NETWORK IN RELATION TO A BACKHAUL FAILOVER | HO, CHUONG T | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18919705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING A CONCEALED IDENTIFIER FOR A FIFTH GENERATION STANDALONE CAPABLE DEVICE | VU, VIET D | 2455 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18917001 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POLICY CONTROL FUNCTION DISCOVERY SERVICE | NGUYEN, HAO HONG | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18917280 | DIFFERENTIATED DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT SERVICE PROFILE | HARLEY, JASON A | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18907984 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING TRAFFIC LIGHT VIOLATIONS | MENBERU, BENIYAM | 2681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18906318 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING CORE NETWORK APPLICATIONS BETWEEN NETWORKS | LEE, CHI HO A | 2475 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18905989 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING A TIMING USING A NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL AND A SYSTEM FRAME NUMBER | LI, GUANG W | 2478 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18904249 | INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED TEST CASE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | 2192 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18894438 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AI-ENABLED CHARACTERIZATION OF PERFORMANCE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | 3624 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18891516 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BACKHAUL BANDWIDTH AND CORE CAPACITY ESTIMATION FOR DEDICATED NETWORKS | OLUBODUN, AYODELE LAWRENCE | 2472 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18891000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR END DEVICE NETWORK SLICE SELECTION | DABIRI, HIDAYAT T | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18884398 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE PRIORITY FOR INTERWORKING WITH EXTERNAL NETWORKS AND PROTOCOLS | ZHAO, YONGHONG | 2472 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18830835 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BARRING AND UNBARRING NETWORK SLICES | NGUYEN, JOSEPH KHANH | 2646 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18823859 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING FAST FADING IN A WIRED TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK | KIM, WON TAE C | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18815909 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING NEURAL NETWORK MODELS TO LABEL IMAGES | HAIDER, SYED | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18811471 | Edge Discovery Authorization for a User Device | LE, CHAU D | 2408 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18787375 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNING BASED ON DENOISED CLUSTERS | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 2164 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18769653 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING NETWORK FUNCTION SELECTION FOR ROAMING | FANG, PAKEE | 2409 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18731683 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE MESSAGES USING A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTER | TON, DANG T | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18676823 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORECASTING TIME SERIES NETWORK CAPACITY | CHANG, KAI J | 2468 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18675539 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL BASED APPLICATIONS | PHAM, TUAN A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18655738 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING BLOCKED TRAFFIC FLOWS IN VOICE RELATED SERVICES | MOISE, EMMANUEL LIONEL | 2455 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18653006 | FEATURE DEPLOYMENT IN MOBILE NETWORK WITHOUT BASE STATION DEPENDENCY | ZUNIGA ABAD, JACKIE | 2469 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18647410 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH VOICE OBFUSCATION | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18645731 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ENERGY CONSUMPTION CONTROL SERVICE | NGUYEN, KHAI MINH | 2641 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18643218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING AND PROVIDING OPTIMAL DOMAIN RESOURCES TO CONSUMERS | RASHID, WISSAM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18636730 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE GENERATIVE AI VIA FEEDBACK | ADMASU, MAHLIET TASEW | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18636690 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUALITY CONTROL OF ANSWERS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED VIA GENERATIVE AI | HAN, JOSEP | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVerizon Communications Inc. has 110 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 66 art units and 102 examiners.
Hao Hong Nguyen has the most, with 3 of Verizon Communications Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.