Technology area: Networking & Security
72 pending office actions • 53 art units • 68 examiners • 0 of 72 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 161 patents granted in the last 365 days
Charter Communications Operating LLC has 72 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters span 67 distinct examiners and 51 distinct art units, showing a large and widely distributed prosecution portfolio. The examiner and art-unit counts indicate that many assignments are handled individually, while some examiners and units carry multiple matters.
DIVITO, WALTER J is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. This creates a specific examiner cluster within a broader workload that requires portfolio-wide docket control. Counsel should identify recurring networking and security issues across related matters, then adapt amendments and arguments to the particular art unit and examiner involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 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. 22 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 | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 7 (10%) |
| §103 only | 34 (47%) |
| §102 only | 4 (6%) |
| §112 only | 4 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 16 (22%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIVITO, WALTER J | 3 | 84.2% | +9.8% |
| WAQAS, SAAD A | 2 | 74.3% | +37.6% |
| PHUNKULH, BOB A | 2 | 89.4% | +9.4% |
| ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N | 1 | 79.2% | +3.3% |
| LAKHIA, VIRAL S | 1 | 87.6% | +19.7% |
| KHANAL, SANDARVA | 1 | 68.3% | +13.0% |
| NGUYEN, ANH | 1 | 79.0% | +25.0% |
| ODOM, CURTIS B | 1 | 87.2% | +11.4% |
| LIPMAN, JACOB | 1 | 83.3% | +12.8% |
| ABEDIN, SHANTO | 1 | 87.3% | +23.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085539 | Methods and Apparatus for Supporting the Communication of Path Switching Capability Information Between User Equipment and a Network Device To Enable Efficient Switching of Multi-Access (MA) Traffic Between Non-3GPP Access Paths | DIVITO, WALTER J | 37d overdue |
| 18085548 | Methods and Apparatus Relating to Communication of Path Switching Capability Information Between a Network Device and a UE device To Enable Efficient Switching of Multi-Access (MA) Traffic Between Non-3GPP Access Paths | DIVITO, WALTER J | 37d overdue |
| 19195866 | NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL AND OFFLOADING | LAKHIA, VIRAL S | — |
| 19019416 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING AND DISPLAYING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) MESSAGES | ODOM, CURTIS B | — |
| 18788101 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING SUBCARRIER SPACING ON A COMMUNICATIONS LINK WITH A MODEM | PHUNKULH, BOB A | — |
| 18655694 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PREMISES DEVICE EXISTENCE AND CAPABILITY DETERMINATION | DIVITO, WALTER J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18134286 | WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY AND MOTION/GESTURE MONITORING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT | SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH | 74d overdue |
| 18354360 | CREDENTIAL MISUSE DETECTION VIA ENTROPIC ANALYSIS OF STREAMING BEHAVIOR VARIABILITY | PRASAD, NANCY N | 35d overdue |
| 18353574 | REAL-TIME TRAFFIC INFORMATION GENERATION USING SMART TRAFFIC SIGNALS | PHAM, CLINT V | 32d overdue |
| 18439817 | COMMUNICATION SCHEDULING IN A NETWORK BASED ON DIFFERENT QOS | PHUNKULH, BOB A | 14d |
| 18442680 | RECLASSIFICATION AND PRIORITY QUEUE CONTROL | HOSSAIN, KAMAL M | 34d |
| 18497462 | RECONFIGURATION OF MODEM DEVICES TO LIMIT CHANNEL BONDING CAPACITY | CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL | 39d |
| 18108492 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS DEVICE ATTACHMENT IN A MANAGED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE | RENNER, BRANDON M | 70d |
| 19172241 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION IN SMALL-CELL WIRELESS SYSTEMS | WAQAS, SAAD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19195866 | NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL AND OFFLOADING | LAKHIA, VIRAL S | — |
| 19172241 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION IN SMALL-CELL WIRELESS SYSTEMS | WAQAS, SAAD A | — |
| 19074761 | DETERMINING TRACEROUTES USING TCP PACKETS | KHANAL, SANDARVA | — |
| 19068583 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION IN SMALL-CELL WIRELESS SYSTEMS | WAQAS, SAAD A | — |
| 19044984 | MODULATION-BASED DOCSIS SCHEDULER | NGUYEN, ANH | — |
| 19019416 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING AND DISPLAYING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) MESSAGES | ODOM, CURTIS B | — |
| 18991261 | TIMEOUT PERIOD FOR REJECTED AUTHENTICATION REQUESTS | LIPMAN, JACOB | — |
| 18962700 | PASSWORD SECURITY HARDWARE MODULE | ABEDIN, SHANTO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2468 | 4 |
| 2478 | 4 |
| 2465 | 4 |
| 2411 | 3 |
| 2412 | 3 |
| 2457 | 2 |
| 2425 | 2 |
| 2413 | 2 |
| 2424 | 2 |
| 2415 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19214337 | PROXY ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL FOR DISTRIBUTED LOCAL AREA NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS | ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N | 2457 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19195866 | NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL AND OFFLOADING | LAKHIA, VIRAL S | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19172241 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION IN SMALL-CELL WIRELESS SYSTEMS | WAQAS, SAAD A | 2468 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19074761 | DETERMINING TRACEROUTES USING TCP PACKETS | KHANAL, SANDARVA | 2453 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19068583 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION IN SMALL-CELL WIRELESS SYSTEMS | WAQAS, SAAD A | 2468 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19044984 | MODULATION-BASED DOCSIS SCHEDULER | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19019416 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING AND DISPLAYING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) MESSAGES | ODOM, CURTIS B | 2631 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18991261 | TIMEOUT PERIOD FOR REJECTED AUTHENTICATION REQUESTS | LIPMAN, JACOB | 2434 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18962700 | PASSWORD SECURITY HARDWARE MODULE | ABEDIN, SHANTO | 2494 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18959074 | ADAPTING 5G NR SPATIAL COMPONENTS FOR STACKED TRANSMISSION VIA RF/OPTICAL MEDIA | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | 2633 | §112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18951479 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATION BETWEEN WIRELINE BACKHAUL AND WIRELESS SYSTEMS | SAINT CYR, JEAN D | 2425 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18950359 | Methods and Systems For Monitoring Upstream Communication Channels in a Cable Service Network | JACKSON, JAYLUN ARMAN | 2112 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18909825 | Methods and Systems for Automating Workflows | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18899401 | WIRELESS BASE STATION INSTALLATION BASED ON DEVICE SPEED | CHOI, WON JUN | 2411 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18886535 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING SCHEDULER FAIRNESS IN SMALL-CELL WIRELESS SYSTEMS | LY, ANH VU H | 2472 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18828420 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESS NODE SELECTION AND LINK OPTIMIZATION IN QUASI-LICENSED WIRELESS SYSTEMS | NGUYEN, STEVEN H D | 2414 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18818524 | 5G OVER COAXIAL COEXISTENCE WITH DOCSIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CHOI, EUNSOOK | 2467 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18801681 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION POWER IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM | CASTANEYRA, RICARDO H | 2473 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18798974 | Apparatus and Method for Network Function Signaling Latency Reduction | KIM, CHONG G | 2443 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18794541 | POWER SAVINGS IN A HYBRID MOBILE NETWORK | PARK, CHONGSUH | 2478 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18788101 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING SUBCARRIER SPACING ON A COMMUNICATIONS LINK WITH A MODEM | PHUNKULH, BOB A | 2412 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18784295 | POWER SAVINGS BASED ON SPECTRUM ACCESS SYSTEM SUSPENSION FOR CITIZENS BROADBAND RADIO SERVICE NETWORK | CHO, UN C | 2413 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18775832 | CHANNEL SELECTION UTILIZING CHANNEL POWER | KIM, KI SEOK | 2418 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18762117 | SPECTRUM CONTROL USING SILENT PERIODS | CHEEMA, HASAN ALI | 2465 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18758788 | ADAPTER FOR CABLE CONNECTION | PAUMEN, GARY F | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18746914 | AUTHORIZATION INTERMEDIARY TO REDUCE NETWORK TRAFFIC WITH AND PROCESSOR UTILIZATION OF A BACK-END AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 2482 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18744473 | APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDOS) DETECTION AND MITIGATION | COULTER, KENNETH R | 2445 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18734812 | System And Method For Enhanced Channel Configurations of Multiple Wireless Access Points (APs) in Dense Environments Using a Monte Carlo Algorithm | BROCKMAN, ANGEL T | 2412 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18674110 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTENT STREAMING AND DOWNLOADING | MENGESHA, MULUGETA A | 2424 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18663958 | DYNAMIC POWER SAVING OPERATION | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 2415 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18662032 | NODE APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING HIGH-CAPACITY DATA SERVICES VIA A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK ARCHITECTURE | IQBAL, KHAWAR | 2643 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18658252 | UE-ASSISTED, NON-CELLULAR, WIRELESS CONNECTIONS FOR VEHICLES | HARLEY, JASON A | 2468 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18655580 | REAL-TIME EXTRACTION OF 3D ANIMATION INFORMATION FROM PREDICTED SPEECH | ZHAI, KYLE | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18655694 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PREMISES DEVICE EXISTENCE AND CAPABILITY DETERMINATION | DIVITO, WALTER J | 2465 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18649755 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED HIGH-CAPACITY DATA AND WIRELESS IoT (INTERNET OF THINGS) SERVICES | PHILLIPS, MICHAEL K | 2464 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18631036 | Methods and Apparatus for Enabling Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) Through Use of Stream Classification Service | DALENCOURT, YVES | 2457 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18631038 | Methods and Apparatus for Using Mirrored Stream Classification Service to Enable Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) | GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C | 2459 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18582164 | CATV SYSTEM SIGNAL LEAKAGE DETECTION USING A DRONE | MONSUR, NASIMA | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18442680 | RECLASSIFICATION AND PRIORITY QUEUE CONTROL | HOSSAIN, KAMAL M | 2444 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18439829 | MAPPING OF SCHEDULING PRIORITY LEVELS TO ACCESS CLASS QUEUES | PHUNG, LUAT | 2468 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18439817 | COMMUNICATION SCHEDULING IN A NETWORK BASED ON DIFFERENT QOS | PHUNKULH, BOB A | 2412 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18439031 | Software-controlled Battery Charging and Monitoring of Access CPE Devices | BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18426893 | SELECTIVE DEVICE TUNNELING AND LOCAL NETWORK CONNECTIVITY | NGUYEN, BAO G | 2461 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18418801 | System And Method For Remotely Filtering Network Traffic Of A Customer Premise Device | HUANG, CHENG-FENG | 2497 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18418202 | NETWORK-BASED BACKUP BATTERY SYSTEM | LIU, LI | 2634 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18398045 | SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK | SABOURI, MAZDA | 2641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18545155 | QUALITY OF SERVICE CONTINUITY IN CONVERGED NETWORKS | HUYNH, KHOA B | 2462 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18532263 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING HIGH-CAPACITY DATA SERVICES OVER A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK | KWOH, JASPER C | 2415 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18531272 | DELIVERING AND MONITORING EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM (EAS) MEDIA FILES VIA ROUTER COMPUTING DEVICES USING REDIRECTION RESPONSES | SHANG, ANNAN Q | 2424 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18528289 | WIRELESS REPEATER APPARATUS AND METHODS OF OPERATION | NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T | 2477 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCharter Communications Operating LLC has 72 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 53 art units and 68 examiners.
Walter J Divito has the most, with 3 of Charter Communications Operating LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
