Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: AYERS, MICHAEL W

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2195

This examiner grants 70% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

69.7%
Allow Rate
+14.7% vs TC avg
324
Total Applications
+56.2%
Interview Lift
1242
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 287 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.8%
§101 Eligibility
2.9%
§102 Novelty
47.3%
§103 Obviousness
25.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19365469 Method and System for Processing Artificial Intelligence User Requests Non-Final OA Vijay Madisetti
18194494 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACING CLOUD SERVICE COSTS Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
19272168 Threat Mitigation System and Method Final Rejection ReliaQuest Holdings, LLC
18354897 METHOD FOR DETERMINING RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION CONSTRAINTS IN SPARSE DATA ENVIRONMENTS Non-Final OA Google LLC
18358211 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTILEVEL BALANCING OF COMPUTATIONAL TASKS Non-Final OA The Boeing Company
18487673 TRANSMITTING DATA USING A SHARED NETWORK ADAPTER Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18326187 JUST IN TIME OPTIMIZATION OF CLOUD RESOURCES FOR SERVICE CALLS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18054923 DYNAMIC AND CASCADING RESOURCE ALLOCATION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17987185 INCREASING PROCESSING RESOURCES IN PROCESSING CORES OF A GRAPHICS ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18341656 Techniques for memory access management in distributed computing architectures Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
17657726 MANAGING TRANSCODING RESOURCES IN CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
17384035 OFFLINE CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTELLIGENT DEVICE Final Rejection OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD.
18217438 INFRASTRUCTURE-INDEPENDENT SCALING OF HYPERCONVERGED COMPUTING NODES Non-Final OA Nutanix, Inc.
17976596 HIGH PERFORMANCE NODE-TO-NODE PROCESS MIGRATION Final Rejection Nutanix, Inc.
18550159 IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Non-Final OA Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
18488537 ENFORCING LIMITS ON USE OF ENDPOINT DEVICES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18275344 RESOURCE CONTROL DEVICE, RESOURCE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND RESOURCE CONTROL METHOD Non-Final OA Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
18240085 CONTEXT SWITCH REDUCTION FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE EXITS Non-Final OA Red Hat, Inc.
18362617 RACE FREE VIRTUAL MACHINE SNAPSHOTS Non-Final OA Red Hat, Inc.
17745830 PARALLEL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONVOLUTION COMPUTATION AND DATA LOADING OF NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR Final Rejection ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
18139987 AUTOMATE SUSPENSION AND REDEPLOYMENT OF CLOUD RESOURCES Final Rejection VMWARE LLC
18449011 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTIVTY-AWARE SCHEDULING Non-Final OA Acronis International GmbH
17809486 RUNTIME PREDICTION FOR JOB MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA BMC Software, Inc.
18250708 Persistent Multi-Instance GPU Partitions Final Rejection Rakuten Symphony, Inc.
18211902 Computer System and Method for Executing an Automotive Customer Function Non-Final OA TTTech Auto AG

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