Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
51 pending office actions • 1 client • 50 examiners • 42 art units • 2 of 51 (4%) have an AI response strategy ready • 83 patents granted in the last 365 days
MERCHANT & GOULD P.C. - CISCO focuses on Networking & Security and has 3,044 career applications. The portfolio includes 50 pending office actions, while its resolved allowance rate is 92.26%, showing a high allowance outcome across resolved matters.
Applications reaching allowance averaged 4.72 office actions, which indicates that favorable outcomes often followed sustained examination activity. The application volume provides a broad record for evaluating prosecution work in networking and security matters, while the pending docket identifies continuing activity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (16%) |
| §103 only | 31 (61%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 3 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMS, MATTHEW C | 2 | 68.0% | +11.3% |
| SINGH, AMNEET | 1 | 79.0% | +8.8% |
| JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 1 | 86.9% | +14.9% |
| NGUYEN, ANH | 1 | 79.0% | +25.0% |
| VOGT, JACOB BUI | 1 | 42.9% | +76.0% |
| ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 1 | 69.5% | +30.3% |
| VANG, MENG | 1 | 78.0% | +27.4% |
| KHAN, ATTA | 1 | 83.7% | +24.8% |
| KOENIG, ROBERT H | 1 | — | — |
| PERVIN, NUZHAT | 1 | 81.3% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19095603 | KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR SCALABLE JOINT THREAT HUNTING, DETECTION, AND FORENSICS FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | — |
| 19006859 | UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING AN ENDPOINT THAT CONNECTS TO A NETWORK USING MULTIPLE CHANNELS/BANDS | KHAN, ATTA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18642483 | Make-Before-Break Roaming | KENNEDY, LESA M | 14d |
| 18790039 | PLUG-AND-PLAY ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA RESOURCE EXTENSIONS IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE SYSTEM | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 28d |
| 19264366 | TRIGGERING STAGGERED MULTI-USER UPLINK IN AMBIENT POWER DEVICE GROUP | SINGH, AMNEET | — |
| 19039608 | TASK DETECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS QUERIES USING PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS | VOGT, JACOB BUI | — |
| 19005618 | BACKSCATTER AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) IMPULSE RADAR | SAMS, MATTHEW C | — |
| 19005665 | RECOVERING FROM RECURSIVE WIRELESS CLIENT AUTHENTICATION FAILURES | SAMS, MATTHEW C | — |
| 18954044 | ACCESS POINT AUTO-LOCATION USING ULTRA-WIDEBAND | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
| 18936539 | INTELLIGENT, CUSTOMIZABLE RAG WITH CONTEXTUAL COMPRESSION | MINCEY, JERMAINE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19095603 | KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR SCALABLE JOINT THREAT HUNTING, DETECTION, AND FORENSICS FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | — |
| 19073934 | MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATED SERVICE PERIODS | NGUYEN, ANH | — |
| 19039608 | TASK DETECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS QUERIES USING PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS | VOGT, JACOB BUI | — |
| 19039596 | ACCURACY EVALUATION AND SELECTIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS AT INFERENCE TIME | ELLIS, MATTHEW J | — |
| 19012511 | EPOCH SCHEME FOR STATION PRIVACY | VANG, MENG | — |
| 19006859 | UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING AN ENDPOINT THAT CONNECTS TO A NETWORK USING MULTIPLE CHANNELS/BANDS | KHAN, ATTA | — |
| 19005618 | BACKSCATTER AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) IMPULSE RADAR | SAMS, MATTHEW C | — |
| 19005665 | RECOVERING FROM RECURSIVE WIRELESS CLIENT AUTHENTICATION FAILURES | SAMS, MATTHEW C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 51 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 2 |
| 2458 | 2 |
| 2653 | 2 |
| 2443 | 2 |
| 2449 | 2 |
| 2646 | 2 |
| 2472 | 2 |
| 2414 | 2 |
| 2649 | 2 |
| 2633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264366 | TRIGGERING STAGGERED MULTI-USER UPLINK IN AMBIENT POWER DEVICE GROUP | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SINGH, AMNEET | 2633 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19095603 | KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR SCALABLE JOINT THREAT HUNTING, DETECTION, AND FORENSICS FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19073934 | MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATED SERVICE PERIODS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19039608 | TASK DETECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS QUERIES USING PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 2653 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19039596 | ACCURACY EVALUATION AND SELECTIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS AT INFERENCE TIME | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 2152 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19012511 | EPOCH SCHEME FOR STATION PRIVACY | Cisco Technology, Inc. | VANG, MENG | 2443 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19006859 | UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING AN ENDPOINT THAT CONNECTS TO A NETWORK USING MULTIPLE CHANNELS/BANDS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KHAN, ATTA | 2449 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 19005618 | BACKSCATTER AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) IMPULSE RADAR | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SAMS, MATTHEW C | 2646 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19005665 | RECOVERING FROM RECURSIVE WIRELESS CLIENT AUTHENTICATION FAILURES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SAMS, MATTHEW C | 2646 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18955158 | SEAMLESS ROAMING IN ULTRA-WIDEBAND | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KOENIG, ROBERT H | 2642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954044 | ACCESS POINT AUTO-LOCATION USING ULTRA-WIDEBAND | Cisco Technology, Inc. | PERVIN, NUZHAT | 3648 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18947727 | TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION (TCLAS) ENHANCEMENT FOR LOW LATENCY, LOW LOSS, SCALABLE (L4S) THROUGHOUT FLOW CLASSIFICATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SOE, KYAW Z | 2412 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18937844 | PRE-ASSOCIATIVE QUALITY-OF-EXPERIENCE ADVERTISING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SCHEIBEL, ROBERT C | 2467 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18937778 | CONTROLLING ACCESS POINT LOCATION CROWDSOURCING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | GELIN, JEAN ALLAND | 2643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18936539 | INTELLIGENT, CUSTOMIZABLE RAG WITH CONTEXTUAL COMPRESSION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | MINCEY, JERMAINE A | 2159 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18936423 | SIGNALING PREFERENCE ORDER OF LINKS AND MAXIMUM ALLOWED LINKS FOR MULTI-LINK OPERATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SHARMA, POONAM | 2472 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18935746 | GENERATING MEANINGFUL SYSTEM EVENT SUMMARIES USING AN LLM | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SAMWEL, DANIEL | 2171 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18933351 | DATA CONTROLS USING PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SIDDO, IBRAHIM | 2681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18931598 | COMPLIANCE-BASED MULTI-FACTOR AUTHORIZATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | DEBNATH, SUMAN | 2495 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18931467 | CHUNK TRACEABILITY AND USER-BASED ACCESS CONTROL IN HORIZONTAL RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | HUSSEIN, HASSAN A | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18926981 | MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATION SHARED RISK MEDIUM GROUP OF STATIONS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ANSARI, NAJEEBUDDIN | 2463 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18927090 | UPLINK AND DOWNLINK SOUNDING TO PASSIVE BACKSCATTER DEVICES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | CHANG, KAI J | 2468 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18923833 | BACKUP CONNECTIVITY FOR TROUBLESHOOTING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | NGUYEN, STEVEN H D | 2414 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18902408 | LOW POWER INDOOR (LPI) ACCESS POINT (AP) THAT PUNCTURES ITS CHANNEL WHILE RESPECTING INCUMBENTS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | DABIRI, HIDAYAT T | 2414 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18893094 | INTEROPERABLE TRANSMIT POWER ENVELOP (TPE) SIGNALING WITH AUTOMATED FREQUENCY COORDINATION (AFC) FREQUENCY RESPONSE | Cisco Technology, Inc. | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18828930 | MULTI-LINK PROCEDURE TO IDENTIFY LINK DISABLEMENT IN BASIC SERVICE SET (BSS) TRANSITION MANAGEMENT FRAMES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | PHAN, MAN U | 2477 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18821129 | ACCESS CONTROL LABELING VIA LLM SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SHAW, YIN CHEN | 2498 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18807212 | EXTRACTING INSIGHTS FROM REAL-TIME INTERNET ROUTING DATA | Cisco Technology, Inc. | RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN | 2471 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18807189 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF PROBE AND PATH TRACING MODES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | WOOLCOCK, MADHU | 2451 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18791246 | USING CROWDSOURCED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TO OPTIMIZE A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE SYSTEM | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 2653 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18790039 | PLUG-AND-PLAY ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA RESOURCE EXTENSIONS IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE SYSTEM | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 2659 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18790027 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED CONTEXT LABELING FOR TOKENIZED LOG MESSAGES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | MORRISON, JAY A | 2151 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18786259 | PROXY ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL SUPPORT IN MULTI-LINK DEVICES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 2449 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18786385 | SIGNALING TO IDENTIFY A STREAM CLASSIFICATION SERVICE (SCS) FLOW USING A FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME/UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR OR AN APPLICATION IDENTIFIER | Cisco Technology, Inc. | HARPER, KEVIN C | 2462 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18786344 | Adaptive Channel Aging Detection to Determine Channel Sounding Intervals | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KIM, SUN JONG | 2469 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18786297 | OPPORTUNISTIC KEY CACHING IN SUITE-B-192 | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18786355 | Synchronizing Restricted Traffic Window Service Periods Across Bands for Non-Simultaneously Transmit and Receive (NSTR) Stations | Cisco Technology, Inc. | JIANG, ZAIHAN | 2488 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18786221 | SELECTIVE RESPECT FOR OVERLAPPING BASIC SERVICE SET COORDINATED RESTRICTED TARGET WAKE TIME SCHEDULES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL | 2478 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18767745 | Throughput Predictor And Flow Load Balancer | Cisco Technology, Inc. | MAPA, MICHAEL Y | 2645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18644328 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) CACHING VIA DOUBLE VERIFICATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | TRAN, TAN H | 2141 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18641611 | DYNAMIC SIMILARITY THRESHOLD SELECTION FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE CACHES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | PYO, MONICA M | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18642483 | Make-Before-Break Roaming | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KENNEDY, LESA M | 2458 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18627578 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-ASSISTED TELEMETRY INSTRUMENTATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SHIU, HO T | 2443 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18606201 | VALIDATING REUSABLE CODE FOR A LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED NETWORK AGENT | Cisco Technology, Inc. | TRAN, TRAVIS VIET | 2191 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18598148 | DOMAIN ADAPTATION THROUGH MODEL PRUNING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | FUJITA, KATRINA R | 2672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18583495 | COORDINATED FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ZHAO, YONGHONG | 2472 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18455871 | MULTIMODAL WIRELESS AND DETERMINISTIC MODE OPERATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KAYAL, DAVID M | 2464 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18310633 | QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS) TRANSLATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | CHAU, PETER P | 2476 | §112 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18166264 | ACCESS POINT COORDINATION USING GRAPHS AND MACHINE LEARNING PROCESSES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | AI Ready | Feb 08, 2023 |
| 17932066 | TIME SENSITIVE NETWORK (TSN) QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) MANAGEMENT | Cisco Technology, Inc. | FAYED, RASHA K | 2413 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial92.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Merchant & Gould P.C. - Cisco were allowed, across 3,044 applications in USPTO records.
4.72 office actions per allowed application on average.
51 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 50 examiners in 42 art units.
