Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
47 pending office actions • 1 client • 35 examiners • 17 art units • 0 of 47 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 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. 26 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 | 17 (36%) |
| §103 only | 22 (47%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (15%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, ADAM | 6 | 84.5% | +59.5% |
| DASCOMB, JACOB D | 4 | 85.5% | +22.5% |
| MENDEL, JULIAN SCOTT | 2 | 76.5% | +52.4% |
| YUAN, PETER LI | 2 | — | — |
| KIM, DONG U | 2 | 86.8% | +12.9% |
| CHU JOY, JORGE A | 2 | 77.3% | +35.7% |
| SADLER, NATHAN | 1 | 70.8% | +26.5% |
| HUISMAN, DAVID J | 1 | 57.9% | +33.7% |
| AGUILERA, TODD | 1 | 57.4% | +57.3% |
| RIVERA, ANIBAL | 1 | 90.9% | +12.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18487007 | MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE IMAGES | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 30d overdue |
| 18382329 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE BY IDEMPOTENT APPLICATION OF DATA SPECIFICATIONS | LEE, ADAM | 28d overdue |
| 18195826 | CONFIGURATION OF LOAD BALANCER FOR CONNECTION SERVERS BETWEEN NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGED DATACENTERS | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 19d overdue |
| 18334592 | DECLARATIVE VM MANAGEMENT FOR A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATOR IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM | KIM, DONG U | 56d |
| 18501605 | CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION IN A CLUSTERED AND VIRTUALIZED COMPUTER SYSTEM | KIM, DONG U | — |
| 18373580 | SERVER AND APPLICATION AWARE NUMA-BASED LOAD-BALANCING SOLUTION | LEE, ADAM | — |
| 18299481 | CLOUD MANAGEMENT OF ON-PREMISES VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE IN A MULTI-CLOUD SYSTEM | DASCOMB, JACOB D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18137532 | DYNAMIC SCALING OF CLOUD GATEWAYS CONNECTING CLOUD MACHINES TO ON-PREMISES MACHINES BASED ON STATISTICS OF THE CLOUD GATEWAYS | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 43d overdue |
| 18376852 | RATE LIMITING EVENTS IN A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM | ROTARU, OCTAVIAN | 38d overdue |
| 18378163 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE CONFIGURATIONS OF CLOUD RESOURCES | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 30d overdue |
| 18377830 | OPTIMIZING A NIC THAT EMULATES A LOCAL NVME STORAGE DEVICE FOR PROCESSES OF A HOST COMPUTER | SWIFT, CHARLES M | 26d overdue |
| 18471104 | UPGRADING SOFTWARE RUNNING IN HOSTS OF A VIRTUAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE | LEE, ADAM | 16d overdue |
| 18217118 | PLACEMENT IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON RESOURCE ALLOCATION | LEE, ADAM | 16d overdue |
| 18382190 | PROVISIONING CLOUD-AGNOSTIC RESOURCE INSTANCES BY SHARING CLOUD RESOURCES | LEE, ADAM | 3d overdue |
| 18371762 | FUNCTIONS AS A SERVICE | LEE, ADAM | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18137532 | DYNAMIC SCALING OF CLOUD GATEWAYS CONNECTING CLOUD MACHINES TO ON-PREMISES MACHINES BASED ON STATISTICS OF THE CLOUD GATEWAYS | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 43d overdue |
| 18487007 | MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE IMAGES | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 30d overdue |
| 18382329 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE BY IDEMPOTENT APPLICATION OF DATA SPECIFICATIONS | LEE, ADAM | 28d overdue |
| 18195826 | CONFIGURATION OF LOAD BALANCER FOR CONNECTION SERVERS BETWEEN NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGED DATACENTERS | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 19d overdue |
| 17678551 | COMMON VOLUME REPRESENTATION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM | CHU JOY, JORGE A | 19d overdue |
| 18471104 | UPGRADING SOFTWARE RUNNING IN HOSTS OF A VIRTUAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE | LEE, ADAM | 16d overdue |
| 18217118 | PLACEMENT IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON RESOURCE ALLOCATION | LEE, ADAM | 16d overdue |
| 18382190 | PROVISIONING CLOUD-AGNOSTIC RESOURCE INSTANCES BY SHARING CLOUD RESOURCES | LEE, ADAM | 3d overdue |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| VMWARE LLC | 47 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2198 | 13 |
| 2195 | 7 |
| 2196 | 5 |
| 2197 | 3 |
| 2133 | 2 |
| 2192 | 2 |
| 2194 | 2 |
| 2183 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18929339 | Untitled | VMware, Inc. | SADLER, NATHAN | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | ||
| 18903960 | SCALABLE AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE SHARED OBJECT STORAGE USING NON-COHERENT DISAGGREGATED MEMORY | VMware, Inc. | MENDEL, JULIAN SCOTT | 2133 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18806558 | COMMUNICATION USING NON-CACHE-COHERENT DISAGGREGATED MEMORY | VMware, Inc. | MENDEL, JULIAN SCOTT | 2133 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18763532 | ALLOCATION OF THREAD LOCAL STORAGE WHEN A THREAD SWITCHES BETWEEN LINK DOMAINS SHARING A COMMON ADDRESS SPACE | VMware, Inc. | HUISMAN, DAVID J | 2183 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18657706 | Migration Precheck Workflow for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure in Hybrid Cloud Deployment | VMware, Inc. | YUAN, PETER LI | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 | |
| 18634824 | REMOTE EXECUTIONS OF HETEROGENEOUS INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE RUNTIMES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT | VMware, Inc. | AGUILERA, TODD | 2192 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18607212 | LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS CLUSTERS IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | RIVERA, ANIBAL | 2192 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18607191 | LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS CLUSTERS IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | HEADLY, MELISSA A | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 | |
| 18501605 | CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION IN A CLUSTERED AND VIRTUALIZED COMPUTER SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | KIM, DONG U | 2197 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18382329 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE BY IDEMPOTENT APPLICATION OF DATA SPECIFICATIONS | VMware, Inc. | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18382190 | PROVISIONING CLOUD-AGNOSTIC RESOURCE INSTANCES BY SHARING CLOUD RESOURCES | VMware, Inc. | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18489527 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPLEMENT POST-PROVISIONING TASKS | VMware, Inc. | KAMRAN, MEHRAN | 2196 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18380658 | CONTAINERIZED MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS | VMware, Inc. | DAO, TUAN C. | 2198 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18487007 | MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE IMAGES | VMware, Inc. | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 2198 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18379201 | AGENT STATE MANAGEMENT FOR VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCES | VMware, Inc. | MILLS, PAUL V | 2196 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18379197 | CONSOLIDATION AND SHARING OF PIPELINES ACROSS PROJECTS IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | DORAIS, CRAIG C | 2198 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18378163 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE CONFIGURATIONS OF CLOUD RESOURCES | VMware, Inc. | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 3628 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18377830 | OPTIMIZING A NIC THAT EMULATES A LOCAL NVME STORAGE DEVICE FOR PROCESSES OF A HOST COMPUTER | VMware, Inc. | SWIFT, CHARLES M | 2196 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18376852 | RATE LIMITING EVENTS IN A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | ROTARU, OCTAVIAN | 3624 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18479613 | REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED DYNAMIC AGGREGATION FOR DISTRIBUTED AND FEDERATED LEARNING | VMware, Inc. | KANJOOR, AJAY J | 4100 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18476834 | MANAGING CLUSTERS OF HOSTS TO SUPPORT DIFFERENT TYPES OF VIRTUAL ENDPOINT WORKLOADS | VMware, Inc. | ABDULLAHI, SELMAN MOHAMED | 2199 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18373580 | SERVER AND APPLICATION AWARE NUMA-BASED LOAD-BALANCING SOLUTION | VMware, Inc. | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18371761 | FUNCTIONS AS A SERVICE | VMware, Inc. | MOTTER, JORDAN SCOTT | 2198 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18371762 | FUNCTIONS AS A SERVICE | VMware, Inc. | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18471104 | UPGRADING SOFTWARE RUNNING IN HOSTS OF A VIRTUAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE | VMware, Inc. | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18208819 | NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MODIFYING LOGICAL SWITCHING ELEMENTS | VMware, Inc. | ACOLATSE, KODZOVI | 2478 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18239920 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CONFIGURING PODS TO IMPLEMENT LOGICAL ROUTER | VMware, Inc. | LI, HARRISON | 2195 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18456161 | HYPERVISOR SCHEDULING OF WORKLOADS ON HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSING CORES BASED ON WORKLOAD HINTS | VMware, Inc. | SUN, ANDREW NMN | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18230193 | FILTERS FOR ADVERTISED ROUTES FROM TENANT GATEWAYS IN A SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER | VMware, Inc. | CHU JOY, JORGE A | 2195 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18226817 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE BY IDEMPOTENT APPLICATION OF DATA SPECIFICATIONS | VMware, Inc. | VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL | 2196 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18225554 | CONFIGURATION OF SERVICE PODS FOR LOGICAL ROUTER | VMware, Inc. | TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN | 2196 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18348902 | COMPONENT-AGNOSTIC LICENSING ENTITLEMENT SERVICE IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | VO, TED T | 2191 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18217742 | LOGICAL L3 DAEMON | VMware, Inc. | CHU, WUTCHUNG | 2418 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18217118 | PLACEMENT IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON RESOURCE ALLOCATION | VMware, Inc. | LEE, ADAM | 2198 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18334592 | DECLARATIVE VM MANAGEMENT FOR A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATOR IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | KIM, DONG U | 2197 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18331236 | MANAGING VIRTUAL MACHINE DEPLOYMENT BASED ON SMARTNIC RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | VMware, Inc. | YUAN, PETER LI | 2197 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18331050 | UNIFIED DATA STREAMING FRAMEWORK IN VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE | VMware, Inc. | NGUYEN, BRANDON A | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18325756 | RIGHT-SIZING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU) PROFILES FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES | VMware, Inc. | AMIN, MUSTAFA A | 2194 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18325839 | MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE SHUTDOWNS IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON RESOURCE LOCKS | VMware, Inc. | CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18316147 | Intelligent Data Partitioning for Distributed Machine Learning Systems | VMware, Inc. | PELLETT, DANIEL T | 2121 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18195826 | CONFIGURATION OF LOAD BALANCER FOR CONNECTION SERVERS BETWEEN NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGED DATACENTERS | VMware, Inc. | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 2198 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18139987 | AUTOMATE SUSPENSION AND REDEPLOYMENT OF CLOUD RESOURCES | VMware, Inc. | AYERS, MICHAEL W | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18137532 | DYNAMIC SCALING OF CLOUD GATEWAYS CONNECTING CLOUD MACHINES TO ON-PREMISES MACHINES BASED ON STATISTICS OF THE CLOUD GATEWAYS | VMware, Inc. | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 2198 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18299481 | CLOUD MANAGEMENT OF ON-PREMISES VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE IN A MULTI-CLOUD SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | DASCOMB, JACOB D | 2198 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18102686 | COMMON CONNECTION TRACKER ACROSS MULTIPLE LOGICAL SWITCHES | VMware, Inc. | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 2411 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2023 |
| 17990758 | MANAGING THE ASSIGNMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES TO NON-UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS NODES | VMware, Inc. | ANYA, CHARLES E | 2194 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17678551 | COMMON VOLUME REPRESENTATION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM | VMware, Inc. | CHU JOY, JORGE A | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2022 |
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