Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

VMware, Inc.

20 pending office actions • 4 clients

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
7
Final Rejections
13
Non-Final OAs

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
VMware, Inc. 13
VMware, Inc. 5
VMware, Inc. 1
Pivotal Software, Inc. 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18381659 PRE-DEPLOYMENT APPLICATION EVALUATION VMware, Inc. SWIFT, CHARLES M 2196 Non-Final OA Oct 19, 2023
18488313 MECHANISM TO ALLOW FOR MONITORING OF DISCONNECTED COMPONENTS IN CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEMS VMware, Inc. CHERY, MARDOCHEE 2133 Non-Final OA Oct 17, 2023
18378220 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FLEXIBLE CLOUD NAMESPACES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT VMware, Inc. RASHID, WISSAM 2195 Non-Final OA Oct 10, 2023
18377824 SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING AS A SERVICE (SREAAS) FOR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS VMware, Inc. AMIN, MUSTAFA A 2194 Non-Final OA Oct 08, 2023
18376452 SECURITY ORCHESTRATION FOR ON-PREMISES INFRASTRUCTURE VMware, Inc. THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 2137 Final Rejection Oct 04, 2023
18376008 SIMULATED EVENT ORCHESTRATION FOR A DISTRIBUTED CONTAINER-BASED SYSTEM VMware, Inc. KIM, DONG U 2197 Non-Final OA Oct 03, 2023
18370408 CONTAINER AUTO SCALING BASED ON COMPONENT DEPENDENCY VMware, Inc. ABDULLAHI, SELMAN MOHAMED 2199 Non-Final OA Sep 20, 2023
18370346 PARALLELIZED RECOVERY OF LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS (LBA) TABLES VMware, Inc. GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S 2132 Final Rejection Sep 19, 2023
18241160 MECHANISM FOR MANAGING BARE-METAL CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS FROM AN EMBEDDED HYPERVISOR VMware, Inc. CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER 2195 Non-Final OA Aug 31, 2023
18237387 ASSIGNMENT OF CONTAINERIZED WORKLOADS TO VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD SUBNETS IN A MULTI-TENANT NETWORK VMware, Inc. CHEN, ZHI 2196 Non-Final OA Aug 23, 2023
18235772 SECURE SERVICE ACCESS WITH MULTI-CLUSTER NETWORK POLICY VMware, Inc. CHEN, SHIN HON 2431 Non-Final OA Aug 18, 2023
18220217 ZERO-DOWNTIME UPGRADE WITH SYNCHRONIZED NODE CUSTOMIZATION IN A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM VMware, Inc. BAKHIT, CHRISTIAN MAMDOUH 2199 Non-Final OA Jul 10, 2023
18210024 INFRASTRUCTURE DRIVEN AUTO-SCALING OF WORKLOADS VMware, Inc. LU, KEVIN X 2199 Final Rejection Jun 14, 2023
18201098 FAILURE BEHAVIOR OF STRETCHED CLUSTERS VMware, Inc. GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD 2113 Non-Final OA May 23, 2023
18138153 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LIFECYCLES OF NETWORK FUNCTIONS IN MULTIPLE CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS USING DECLARATIVE REQUESTS VMware, Inc. DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 Final Rejection Apr 24, 2023
18156584 DYNAMIC MIGRATION BETWEEN RECEIVE SIDE SCALING (RSS) ENGINE STATES VMware, Inc. DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 Non-Final OA Jan 19, 2023
18153203 ANTI-AFFINITY FOR CONTAINERIZED COMPUTING SERVICE VMware, Inc. BULLOCK JR, LEWIS ALEXANDER 2199 Final Rejection Jan 11, 2023
18152302 DROPLET EXECUTION ENGINE FOR DYNAMIC SERVER APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT Pivotal Software, Inc. BOURZIK, BRAHIM 2191 Non-Final OA Jan 10, 2023
18150067 DEPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF MICROSERVICES IN AN AIR-GAPPED ENVIRONMENT VMware, Inc. TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 2196 Final Rejection Jan 04, 2023
18086809 SUB-TRANSPORT NODE PROFILE CONFIGURATIONS FOR A CLUSTER OF HOSTS VMware, Inc. COONEY, ADAM A 2458 Final Rejection Dec 22, 2022

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