Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
35 pending office actions • 20 art units • 34 examiners • 0 of 35 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 113 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zscaler Inc. is managing 34 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 33 distinct examiners, meaning that almost every action is being reviewed by a different individual. GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions.
The 34 pending office actions are spread across 19 distinct art units. This distribution shows a significant technical range within the Networking & Security sector. GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER is the only examiner with more than a single case, handling 2 of the total pending actions. With 33 distinct examiners and 19 distinct art units, the portfolio's prosecution is decentralized. This requires the company to adapt to 33 different examiner perspectives across 19 different art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 + other | 11 (31%) |
| §103 only | 12 (34%) |
| §112 only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 2 | 75.0% | +27.3% |
| BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 58.4% | +30.0% |
| MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 1 | 89.9% | +8.7% |
| OTTO, ALAN | 1 | 66.7% | +17.9% |
| HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | 1 | 90.5% | +6.4% |
| LEE, GIL H | 1 | 83.1% | +28.7% |
| WANG, HARRIS C | 1 | 69.9% | +20.1% |
| ABYANEH, ALI S | 1 | 77.8% | +55.7% |
| BOYD, MALA DENAE | 1 | — | — |
| ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 1 | 42.2% | +37.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19275873 | Zero Trust Policy Engine for Controlling Access to Network Applications | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | — |
| 19174342 | Cloud-Based Man-in-the-Middle Inspection of Encrypted Traffic | HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17079768 | Utilizing Machine Learning to detect malicious Office documents | FARAMARZI, GITA | 46d overdue |
| 17341513 | Machine learning to determine domain reputation, content classification, phishing sites, and command and control sites | FEITL, LEAH M | 27d |
| 18739699 | Systems and methods for collecting and displaying business insights in a cloud-based system | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 30d |
| 19381831 | Automatic Detection and Visualization of Application Hosting Sites | BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| 19174458 | Statistical Network Application Security Policy Generation | LEE, GIL H | — |
| 19092159 | Determining Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Similarity Via Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) | WANG, HARRIS C | — |
| 19070792 | Cloud-Based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
| 19068234 | Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Event Capture and Processing System | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19381831 | Automatic Detection and Visualization of Application Hosting Sites | BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| 19238954 | Multi-Tenant Cloud to Cloud Incident Routing | OTTO, ALAN | — |
| 19174458 | Statistical Network Application Security Policy Generation | LEE, GIL H | — |
| 19092159 | Determining Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Similarity Via Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) | WANG, HARRIS C | — |
| 19070792 | Cloud-Based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
| 19068234 | Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Event Capture and Processing System | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | — |
| 19061261 | Cloud-Based Browser Isolation with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Forking | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | — |
| 18327182 | Systems and methods for browser isolation via a virtualized Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2445 | 2 |
| 2431 | 2 |
| 2443 | 2 |
| 2496 | 2 |
| 2139 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2454 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19381831 | Automatic Detection and Visualization of Application Hosting Sites | BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D | 2445 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19275873 | Zero Trust Policy Engine for Controlling Access to Network Applications | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19238954 | Multi-Tenant Cloud to Cloud Incident Routing | OTTO, ALAN | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19174342 | Cloud-Based Man-in-the-Middle Inspection of Encrypted Traffic | HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19174458 | Statistical Network Application Security Policy Generation | LEE, GIL H | — | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19092159 | Determining Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Similarity Via Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) | WANG, HARRIS C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19070792 | Cloud-Based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) | ABYANEH, ALI S | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19069767 | Cloud observability framework for providing troubleshooting and monitoring for services | BOYD, MALA DENAE | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19068234 | Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Event Capture and Processing System | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 2169 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19061261 | Cloud-Based Browser Isolation with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Forking | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19055016 | Optimized Cloud-Based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | CHEN, SHIN HON | 2431 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19043692 | Distributed Worker Pool for Crawling Data Stored in the Cloud | CHAI, LONGBIT | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19024667 | Systems and methods for intelligent machine learning-based malware detection | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19019628 | Utilizing Small Sized Large Language Models (LLMs) for Performing Domain Classification | LANE, GREGORY A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19001685 | Complexity-based Divide-and-Conquer Framework for Copilots | MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH | 2657 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18973641 | Active Directory Security Enforcement and Threat Insights on Zero Trust Networks | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 2454 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18915591 | Generative User Interfaces (UIs) for Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents | CORTES, HOWARD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18915586 | Context aware Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant for troubleshooting network issues | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 2693 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18910792 | Kill-chain reconstruction | KIM, HEE SOO | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18901192 | Systems and methods for determining similarity between Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) based on Graphical Similarity Pixel Comparison | HAIDER, SYED | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18889931 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent playbook utilization and management | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18739699 | Systems and methods for collecting and displaying business insights in a cloud-based system | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 3624 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18640582 | Next generation Artificial intelligence agents | PHUNG, QUOC LY PHU | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18584354 | Multimodal Data Loss Protection using artificial intelligence | ASGARI, SIMA | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18436126 | Systems and methods for deploying independent pipelines in a cloud-based system | HURUY, FEVEN HABTEMARIAM | 4100 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18417534 | Hyper-customized customer defined machine learning models | CHANG, TOM Y | 2455 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18472081 | User Interface workflow for natural language querying | HU, XIAOQIN | 2168 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18354883 | Systems and methods for policy-based distributed packet capture | JAKOVAC, RYAN J | 2445 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18327182 | Systems and methods for browser isolation via a virtualized Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18160725 | Multi-tenant cloud-based firewall systems and methods | HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | 2499 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17974901 | Context Aware Client Firewall for Mobile Devices in Cloud Security Systems | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 2437 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17874896 | Contextual relationship graph based on user's network transaction patterns for investigating attacks | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 2496 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
| 17509154 | Identity intelligence in cloud-based services | HENNING, MATTHEW T | 2491 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2021 |
| 17341513 | Machine learning to determine domain reputation, content classification, phishing sites, and command and control sites | FEITL, LEAH M | 2147 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 08, 2021 |
| 17079768 | Utilizing Machine Learning to detect malicious Office documents | FARAMARZI, GITA | 2496 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2020 |
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