Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
186 pending office actions • 25 clients • 167 examiners • 107 art units • 39 of 186 (21%) have an AI response strategy ready • 49 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 47 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. 47 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 | 2 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 18 (10%) |
| §103 only | 87 (47%) |
| §102 only | 12 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 8 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 53 (28%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A | 4 | 65.9% | +27.0% |
| HLAING, SOE MIN | 2 | 82.7% | +15.9% |
| COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 2 | 75.9% | +15.2% |
| ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL | 2 | 67.1% | +27.2% |
| SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 2 | 67.1% | +23.8% |
| CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 2 | 74.4% | +33.7% |
| SHARMA, NEERAJ | 2 | 84.8% | +11.8% |
| KIM, HARRY H | 2 | 89.9% | +8.4% |
| VO, HUYEN X | 2 | 83.4% | +19.9% |
| CROMPTON, CHRISTOPHER R | 2 | 80.4% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18649054 | PROVIDING RELATED QUERIES TO A SECONDARY AUTOMATED ASSISTANT BASED ON PAST INTERACTIONS | VO, HUYEN X | 2d overdue |
| 19305250 | MECHANISM TO ENABLE A FEDERATED ONBOARDING SERVICE IN AN OPENROAMING FRAMEWORK | HLAING, SOE MIN | — |
| 19009154 | ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CASTING REQUESTS AND/OR USER INPUTS AT A RECHARGEABLE DEVICE | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
| 18870439 | ENHANCED NULL DATA PACKET FOR BASIC BEAMFORMING TRAINING IN 60GHZ | KIM, HARRY H | — |
| 18938222 | SYNTHESIZED SPEECH AUDIO DATA GENERATED ON BEHALF OF HUMAN PARTICIPANT IN CONVERSATION | VO, HUYEN X | — |
| 18936955 | HIGH THROUGHPUT CONTROL INFORMATION AND FIELD EXTENSION | CROMPTON, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18935059 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR COLLECTING DELAY RELATED MEASUREMENTS FROM USER PLANE FUNCTIONS USING TRACES | KIM, HARRY H | — |
| 18649684 | TRANSPORT BLOCK SIZE (TBS) DETERMINATION FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | CROMPTON, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15815765 | COMPARTMENTALIZED SELF REGISTRATION OF EXTERNAL DEVICES | ENGLAND, DAVID E | 527d overdue |
| 17495446 | Seeding Attachment for Riding Aerator | TORRES, ALICIA M | 73d overdue |
| 18487547 | Applicator Control User Interface | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 60d overdue |
| 18039450 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSING BRAIN ACTIVITY | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 46d overdue |
| 18103255 | Location-Based Mode(s) For Biasing Provisioning Of Content When An Automated Assistant Is Responding To Condensed Natural Language Inputs | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 44d overdue |
| 18773101 | INDEX-SIDE STEM-BASED VARIANT GENERATION | MOSER, BRUCE M | 25d overdue |
| 18324041 | ADVANCED PREEMPTION TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED NETWORK PERFORMANCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | GUADALUPE CRUZ, AIXA AMYR | 17d overdue |
| 18102053 | USING EMBEDDINGS, GENERATED USING ROBOT ACTION MODELS, IN CONTROLLING ROBOT TO PERFORM ROBOTIC TASK | BLUST, JASON W | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18649054 | PROVIDING RELATED QUERIES TO A SECONDARY AUTOMATED ASSISTANT BASED ON PAST INTERACTIONS | VO, HUYEN X | 2d overdue |
| 18116201 | PROCESSING NATURAL LANGUAGE USING MACHINE LEARNING TO DETERMINE SLOT VALUES BASED ON SLOT DESCRIPTORS | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 55d |
| 19359513 | NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIONS WITH AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | HLAING, SOE MIN | — |
| 19305250 | MECHANISM TO ENABLE A FEDERATED ONBOARDING SERVICE IN AN OPENROAMING FRAMEWORK | HLAING, SOE MIN | — |
| 19195381 | ENABLING NATURAL CONVERSATIONS FOR AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT | ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A | — |
| 19050807 | UPDATING TRAINED VOICE BOT(S) UTILIZING EXAMPLE-BASED VOICE BOT DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 19049549 | ADAPTING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT FUNCTIONALITY BASED ON GENERATED PROFICIENCY MEASURE(S) | ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL | — |
| 19029706 | REMOTE INVOCATION OF MOBILE DEVICE ACTIONS | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| 75 | |
| Intel | 60 |
| Midea | 15 |
| SAMTEC, INC. | 6 |
| Yokogawa | 4 |
| GDM Holding | 3 |
| Stinger Equipment, Inc. | 3 |
| Aurora Operations | 2 |
| Electronic Arts | 2 |
| Lantech.com | 1 |
| Globe Electric Company Inc. | 1 |
| Cykel Technologies Inc. | 1 |
| Meego Technology Limited | 1 |
| Goodnotes Limited | 1 |
| Mada LLC | 1 |
| Stinger Equipment, Inc. | 1 |
| ORTHODONTIA VISION INC. | 1 |
| Sud Scrub Inc. | 1 |
| Brainlab | 1 |
| WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG | 1 |
| Nexpring US Opco Inc. | 1 |
| Kite Group Limited | 1 |
| Climate Conditioning Company, Inc. | 1 |
| Lgm Usa, LLC | 1 |
| INNONEURO LIMITED | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2658 | 9 |
| 2656 | 6 |
| 2659 | 6 |
| 2655 | 5 |
| 2472 | 5 |
| 3715 | 4 |
| 2474 | 4 |
| 2411 | 4 |
| 2478 | 4 |
| 3762 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19359513 | NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIONS WITH AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | Aurora Operations, Inc. | HLAING, SOE MIN | 2451 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19305250 | MECHANISM TO ENABLE A FEDERATED ONBOARDING SERVICE IN AN OPENROAMING FRAMEWORK | Intel Corporation | HLAING, SOE MIN | 2451 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
| 19146038 | FLIGHT PATH UPDATED TRIGGERING | Intel Corporation | MILLER, PRESTON JAY | 3661 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19143252 | PROCESS AUTOMATION ALARMS FOR DISTRIBUTED CONTROL NODES | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | NGUYEN, NAM V | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19232494 | CONTROLLING A ROBOT BASED ON FREE-FORM NATURAL LANGUAGE INPUT | Google LLC | KAN, YURI | 3662 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19229267 | HIGH ASPECT RATIO VIAS FILLED WITH LIQUID METAL FILL | Samtec, Inc. | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19213837 | LOAD SHAPING OF STRETCH WRAPPED PALLETIZED LOADS | Lantech.Com, LLC | PATHAK, PRAACHI M. | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19206894 | SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING OF ROBOT CONTROL POLICIES | Gdm Holding LLC | JUNG, JAEWOOK | 3656 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19203016 | GENERATIVE MODEL DRIVEN BI-DIRECTIONAL UPDATING OF MULTI-PANE USER INTERFACE | Google LLC | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 3629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19202612 | GENERATIVE MODEL BASED DECOMPOSITION OF INPUT QUERY INTO SUB-QUERIES AND GENERATION OF COMPREHENSIVE RESPONSE BASED ON RESPONSES TO SUB-QUERIES | Google LLC | ALMANI, MOHSEN | 2159 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | May 08, 2025 |
| 19195381 | ENABLING NATURAL CONVERSATIONS FOR AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT | Google LLC | ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A | 2658 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19191841 | UNIFIED MESSAGE SEARCH | Google LLC | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | 2159 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 65d | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19096102 | PROACTIVE RENDERING OF CREDENTIALS ACCORDING TO DETERMINED LOCATION CHARACTERISTICS | Google LLC | JEAN, FRANTZ B | 2454 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19096156 | DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING WHETHER TO PERFORM CANDIDATE AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACTION DETERMINED FROM SPOKEN UTTERANCE | Google LLC | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | 2658 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19096347 | DIMMABLE LED LIGHT FIXTURE WITH ADJUSTABLE CORRELATED COLOR TEMPERATURE CHANGE (CCT) AND BRIGHTNESS PARAMETERS | Globe Electric Company Inc. | CHANG, DANIEL D | 2845 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19089505 | ROBOT STAGING AREA MANAGEMENT | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 3658 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19078911 | DETECTING AND HANDLING FAILURES IN OTHER ASSISTANTS | Google LLC | VILLENA, MARK | 2658 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19068743 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERFACING BETWEEN ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLES AND USER DEVICES | Cykel Technologies Inc. | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19107481 | SYSTEM(S) AND METHOD(S) OF USING BEHAVIORAL CLONING VALUE APPROXIMATION IN TRAINING AND REFINING ROBOTIC CONTROL POLICIES | Gdm Holding LLC | DO, TRUC M | 3658 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19050807 | UPDATING TRAINED VOICE BOT(S) UTILIZING EXAMPLE-BASED VOICE BOT DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES | Google LLC | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 2655 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19049450 | AUTOMATED ASSISTANT CONTROL OF EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS LACKING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FUNCTIONALITY | Google LLC | MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH | 2657 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19049549 | ADAPTING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT FUNCTIONALITY BASED ON GENERATED PROFICIENCY MEASURE(S) | Google LLC | ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL | 2656 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19044202 | RENDERING AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT BASED ON POST-PROCESSING OF APPLICATION CONTENT | Google LLC | PATEL, JITESH | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18998409 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL CONTENT | Meego Technology Limited | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19034719 | ENHANCED GRADING AND FEEDBACK ASSISTANT SYSTEM FOR HANDWRITTEN STUDENT WORK | Goodnotes Limited | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19029358 | PREVENTING NON-TRANSIENT STORAGE OF ASSISTANT INTERACTION DATA AND/OR WIPING OF STORED ASSISTANT INTERACTION DATA | Google LLC | GODBOLD, DOUGLAS | 2655 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029458 | GENERATING AND/OR PRIORITIZING PRE-CALL CONTENT FOR RENDERING WHEN AWAITING ACCEPTANCE OF AN INCOMING CALL | Google LLC | AHN, SAM K | 2633 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029706 | REMOTE INVOCATION OF MOBILE DEVICE ACTIONS | Google LLC | SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA | 2654 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025587 | DETERMINING WHETHER TO AUTOMATICALLY RESUME FIRST AUTOMATED ASSISTANT SESSION UPON CESSATION OF INTERRUPTING SECOND SESSION | Google LLC | AGAHI, DARIOUSH | 2656 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025706 | ASSISTIVE BROWSING USING CONTEXT | Google LLC | LY, CHEYNE D | 2163 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19018837 | MEETING SPEECH BIASING AND/OR DOCUMENT GENERATION BASED ON MEETING CONTENT AND/OR RELATED DATA | Google LLC | SHAH, ANTIM G | 2693 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19018421 | PROVIDING CERTAIN REASONING WITH RESPECT TO FULFILLMENT OF AN ASSISTANT COMMAND | Google LLC | CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 2659 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18992866 | TECHNIQUES FOR SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL (SRS) OPERATION WITH EIGHT PORTS | Intel Corporation | KASSA, ZEWDU A | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18992532 | CABLE APPARATUS AND METHOD | Samtec, Inc. | SALAZAR JR, JORGE L | 2843 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18992355 | DATA COMMUNICATION LINE WITH LATTICE STRUCTURE | Samtec, Inc. | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 2841 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18881719 | ENHANCED QUALITY OF SERVICE-LEVEL SECURITY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | Intel Corporation | SCOTT, RANDY A | 2439 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19009154 | ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CASTING REQUESTS AND/OR USER INPUTS AT A RECHARGEABLE DEVICE | Google LLC | SHARMA, NEERAJ | 2659 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18881260 | ENHANCED UNKNOWN SECONDARY CELL ACTIVATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | Intel Corporation | MERED, HABTE | 2474 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19009190 | CONTROLLING DEVICE OUTPUT ACCORDING TO A DETERMINED CONDITION OF A USER | Google LLC | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | AI Ready | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19005299 | GENERATING TRAINING INSTANCES FOR TRAINING GENERATIVE MODELS BASED ON CONTENT ITEMS | Google LLC | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 2674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19005646 | ADAPTIVE SHELVING UNIT | Mada LLC | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 3637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19003805 | MONITORING FOR TEMPORARY HOTWORD TO MODIFY OR CONFIRM USER QUERY | Google LLC | HE, JIALONG | 2659 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18999889 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE-RESPONSIVE AUTOMATED ASSISTANTS | Google LLC | SHIN, SOO JUNG | 2667 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18984730 | ENHANCED SECURITY KEYS FOR WI-FI ASSOCIATION FRAMES | Intel Corporation | KIM, TAE K | 2496 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18973906 | ADAPTING OUTPUTS OF GENERATIVE MODELS | Google LLC | ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A | 2658 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18970097 | SYSTEM(S) AND METHOD(S) FOR GENERATIVE MODEL PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA INCLUDING OBJECT(S) HAVING PARTICULAR FEATURE(S) AND/OR CLASSIFICATION(S) | Google LLC | SHIN, ANDREW | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18965481 | TEXT INDEPENDENT SPEAKER RECOGNITION | Google LLC | SHARMA, NEERAJ | 2659 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18870439 | ENHANCED NULL DATA PACKET FOR BASIC BEAMFORMING TRAINING IN 60GHZ | Intel Corporation | KIM, HARRY H | 2411 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
| 18950699 | INTERACTIVE CHAIN-OF-THOUGHT EXPLANATION(S) FOR VIDEO GAME(S) | Google LLC | GARNER, WERNER G | 3715 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18951567 | MECHANISMS TO ENABLE PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) SENSING | Intel Corporation | BOKHARI, SYED M | 2473 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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186 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 25 clients, before 167 examiners in 107 art units.
