Technology area: Networking & Security
418 pending office actions • 103 art units • 335 examiners • 0 of 418 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 700 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZTE Corporation has 423 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The portfolio reaches 337 distinct examiners and 105 distinct art units, reflecting extensive prosecution activity across a wide technical and examiner landscape. The difference between those figures shows that art-unit coordination is important, but examiner-specific practices also require systematic tracking.
AL SAMAHI, SANAA SHAKER ABED is the busiest examiner, with 4 pending actions. That assignment is one focused point within a much broader docket. A practitioner managing this portfolio would benefit from unified response standards, searchable issue histories, and separate art-unit and examiner workstreams.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 57 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. 57 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 | 7 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 29 (7%) |
| §103 only | 171 (41%) |
| §102 only | 39 (9%) |
| §112 only | 10 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (0%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 154 (37%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL SAMAHI, SANAA SHAKER ABED | 4 | 61.5% | +52.4% |
| GEBRE, MESSERET F | 4 | 56.9% | +19.9% |
| CHOI, WON JUN | 4 | 71.8% | +10.6% |
| WOLF, DARREN E | 3 | 85.0% | +14.8% |
| HENSON, JAMAAL R | 3 | 84.3% | +4.5% |
| CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M | 3 | 72.0% | +11.0% |
| HONG, DUNG | 3 | 83.9% | +14.2% |
| LYTLE JR., BRADLEY D | 3 | 80.4% | +20.8% |
| RAHMAN, M MOSTAZIR | 3 | 67.8% | +42.0% |
| MYERS, ERIC A | 3 | 81.4% | +8.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18105568 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING SIDELINK TRANSMISSION | HENSON, JAMAAL R | 6d |
| 18113157 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ENHANCING INTEGRATED ACCESS BACKHAUL NETWORKS FOR NEW RADIO | LYTLE JR., BRADLEY D | 7d |
| 18878929 | Client Mapping Method and Device, Storage Medium, and Electronic Device | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18897652 | INTER-AREA MEDIA SERVICE SWITCHING METHOD, SERVER, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HONG, DUNG | — |
| 18848870 | INFORMATION CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| 18562295 | SESSION BINDING RELATIONSHIP PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND READABLE MEDIUM | HONG, DUNG | — |
| 18178273 | SCHEDULING AND TRANSMISSION OF SYSTEM INFORMATION | HONG, DUNG | — |
| 18167335 | CELL MEASUREMENT REPORTING SCHEMES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | MYERS, ERIC A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899083 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF | GEBRE, MESSERET F | 46d overdue |
| 18104496 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 31d overdue |
| 18290946 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 15d overdue |
| 18602347 | INFORMATION CONFIGURATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TON, DANG T | 9d overdue |
| 18577347 | Cross-device Link Aggregation Packet Processing Method and System, Switch and Storage Medium | BARRY, LANCE LEONARD | 4d overdue |
| 18577447 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PATEL, JAY P | 2d overdue |
| 17983034 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTICAST TRANSMISSION | LAMONT, BENJAMIN S | 5d |
| 18562561 | BEAM PROCESSING METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, BASE STATION, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | CAO, NAM PHUONG | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577429 | MULTI-CHASSIS LINK AGGREGATION ROUTING COMPUTATION METHOD, SWITCH, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GEBRE, MESSERET F | 141d overdue |
| 18899083 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF | GEBRE, MESSERET F | 46d overdue |
| 18431004 | METHOD FOR UE COMMUNICATION PATH SWITCH BASED ON POLICY | CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M | 30d overdue |
| 18113157 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ENHANCING INTEGRATED ACCESS BACKHAUL NETWORKS FOR NEW RADIO | LYTLE JR., BRADLEY D | 7d |
| 18218530 | CHANNEL ACCESS PROCEDURES | AL SAMAHI, SANAA SHAKER ABED | 23d |
| 18710660 | DATA DISTRIBUTION METHOD, DATA DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, NETWORK EQUIPMENT AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GEBRE, MESSERET F | 50d |
| 17607808 | SIDELINK COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | RAHMAN, M MOSTAZIR | 79d |
| 18878929 | Client Mapping Method and Device, Storage Medium, and Electronic Device | WOLF, DARREN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2411 | 20 |
| 2476 | 13 |
| 2472 | 11 |
| 2473 | 11 |
| 2477 | 11 |
| 2474 | 10 |
| 2465 | 9 |
| 2412 | 9 |
| 2479 | 9 |
| 2475 | 9 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19167093 | INTRA PREDICTION ENCODING METHOD, INTRA PREDICTION DECODING METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VO, TUNG T | 2425 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19279232 | FILTERING PARAMETER PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19256951 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DATA MODULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | 2631 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19144726 | SCREEN MIRRORING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | KIYABU, KARIN A | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19136013 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BRITT, CYNTHIA H | 2112 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19215609 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION | SHARMA, GAUTAM | 2467 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19119514 | Deterministic resource scheduling method and apparatus | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 2449 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19119010 | VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19117115 | NETWORK BRIDGE PORT ALLOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | BAROT, BHARAT | 2453 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19115830 | APPLICATION PERMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 2408 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19115867 | Video Encoding and Decoding Loop filter method, Video Decoding Method, and Apparatus | ABOUZAHRA, HESHAM K | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19113976 | Audio Playback Method and System, Electronic Device, and Computer Readable Medium | MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 2692 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19114407 | IMPLEMENTATION METHOD OF MLSE EQUALIZER, CHIP, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | BAYARD, EMMANUEL | 2633 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19111048 | BIT INDEX ROUTING TABLE ESTABLISHMENT METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SALL, EL HADJI MALICK | 2457 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19109715 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING APPLICATION INFORMATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU | 2455 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19109589 | NETWORK SLICE CREATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE | NAJI, YOUNES | 2445 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19108450 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT | PUENTE, EVA YI ZHENG | 2632 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19106243 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18998893 | MILLIMETER WAVE TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | TSVEY, GENNADIY | 2648 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19102543 | SIDELINK POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | JAIN, SWATI | 2649 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19101929 | Autonomous Driving Sensing Method and System, Controller and Computer-Readable Storage Medium | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 3658 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19044015 | DATA SPLITTING FOR MULTI-PATH TRANSMISSIONS | HUANG, WEN WU | 2648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19037960 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULTANEOUS BACKHAUL LINK AND CONTROL LINK TRANSMISSIONS FOR NETWORK NODES | GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 2478 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18998874 | Information Leakage Prevention Method and Apparatus, and Storage Medium | REZA, MOHAMMAD W | 2407 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18997054 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KIM, HEE SOO | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18995747 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATING POSITIONING RELATED REFERENCE SIGNALS FOR WIRELESS DEVICES | ELNOUBI, SAID M | 2644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18995444 | TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR AMBIENT BACKSCATTER, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18994662 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATING CONFIGURATION DATA, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, QUANG N | 2441 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994863 | Message processing method, device, and storage medium | VU, VIET D | 2455 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994890 | AUDIO AND VIDEO CALLING METHOD AND APPARATUS | TSENG, CHARLES | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994120 | CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION METHOD, CONTROLLER, NODE DEVICE, AND READABLE MEDIUM | COX, NATISHA D | 2458 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19020705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION VERIFICATION IN NON TERRESTRIAL NETWORK | BARRY, JUSTIN ARTHUR | 2643 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18993726 | Multi-Wavelength Label Signal Processing Method, Controller and Storage Medium | CORS, NATHAN M | 2634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18993117 | MULTI-TARGET POSITION CLASSIFICATION WIRELESS SENSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 3648 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18992559 | OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK UNIT, AND NETWORK SYSTEM | SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18992194 | METHOD FOR LIFTING SPEAKING BAN AT VIDEO CONFERENCE, AND DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ZENATI, AMAL S | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18881995 | VIDEO CALL CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, VIET | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18881111 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING REMOTE SHARING OF DISPLAY SCREEN, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MIDKIFF, AARON | 2621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18880582 | PACKET GENERATION METHOD, PACKET TRANSMISSION METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT | DUONG, OANH | 2441 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18879391 | Information push method and device for dormant card, and storage medium | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 2453 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18879461 | VIA HOLE STRUCTURE OF CIRCUIT BOARD, AND CIRCUIT BOARD | MCALLISTER, MICHAEL F | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18878929 | Client Mapping Method and Device, Storage Medium, and Electronic Device | WOLF, DARREN E | 2634 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18878286 | SATELLITE SYSTEM END STATION GROUPING METHOD, CONTROLLER, SATELLITE SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | TRAN, PHUC H | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18878430 | COMPUTING POWER ROUTING SEARCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTING POWER NETWORK NODE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, STEVEN C | 2451 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18989484 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICES THEREOF | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18989949 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BEAM INDICATION IN WIRELESS NETWORK | SIXTO, NANCY | 2465 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18991194 | LOCATION UPDATE METHOD AND APPARATUS | GILLIS, BRIAN J | 2472 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18990743 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS OF ENFORCING TIME SYNCHRONIZATION | DAYA, TEJIS A | 2472 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18877475 | FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION CODE SWITCHING METHOD, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | 2112 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18876841 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION NODE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PUENTE, EVA YI ZHENG | 2632 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZTE Corporation has 418 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 103 art units and 335 examiners.
Sanaa Shaker Abed Al Samahi has the most, with 4 of ZTE Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
