Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Charter Communications Operating LLC

62 pending office actions • 47 art units • 62 examiners • 0 of 62 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 142 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

62
Total Pending OAs
36
Non-Final OAs
21
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
3
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

23
Hard (37%)
34
Medium (55%)
5
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (3%)
§101 + other5 (8%)
§103 only29 (47%)
§102 only4 (6%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Double-patenting only4 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)16 (26%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
38
Information Tech
61% of docket
14
Communications
23% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
5% of docket
6
Business / Other
10% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

620 h
Manual time on pending OAs
124 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
217 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BANTAMOI, ANTHONY 1 74.5% +30.0%
SHIN, KYUNG H 1 82.0% +10.5%
LIPMAN, JACOB 1 83.3% +12.5%
VLAHOS, SOPHIA 1 87.2% +10.5%
JACKSON, JAYLUN ARMAN 1
HUYNH, CHUCK 1 71.7% +13.9%
CHOI, WON JUN 1 71.1% +8.9%
MERED, HABTE 1 84.5% +12.6%
MAGLOIRE, ELISABETH BENOIT 1 89.6% +8.1%
AREVALO, JOSEPH 1 84.4% +20.9%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18882645 Methods and Apparatus Supporting User Equipment (UE) Access to a Core Network Via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Facilitating Transfer of Application Data via the Core Network MERED, HABTE
18828303 REDUCED SPECTRUM ALLOCATION IN CBRS NETWORKS MAGLOIRE, ELISABETH BENOIT

Hard Cases (23)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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
18415214 OPTIMIZING FREQUENCY SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT BASED ON HIGH-FIDELITY OBSTRUCTION HEIGHTS FERRIS, DERRICK W 28d overdue
18599577 DYNAMIC SECURITY PROTOCOL SELECTION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK LE, LANA N 5d overdue
18959074 ADAPTING 5G NR SPATIAL COMPONENTS FOR STACKED TRANSMISSION VIA RF/OPTICAL MEDIA VLAHOS, SOPHIA 40d
19018310 System And Method For Application and Session-Specific Tagging in Internet Protocol (IP) Packets SHIN, KYUNG H
18991261 TIMEOUT PERIOD FOR REJECTED AUTHENTICATION REQUESTS LIPMAN, JACOB
18818514 5G OVER COAXIAL ENABLED SMALL CELL SYSTEMS AND METHODS AREVALO, JOSEPH

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18959074 ADAPTING 5G NR SPATIAL COMPONENTS FOR STACKED TRANSMISSION VIA RF/OPTICAL MEDIA VLAHOS, SOPHIA 40d
19314048 Apparatus and Methods for a Large Language Model with Semantic Audio for Targeted Advertising Video Stream BANTAMOI, ANTHONY
19018310 System And Method For Application and Session-Specific Tagging in Internet Protocol (IP) Packets SHIN, KYUNG H
18991261 TIMEOUT PERIOD FOR REJECTED AUTHENTICATION REQUESTS LIPMAN, JACOB
18922373 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LOW COMPLEXITY SPECTRUM SHARING HUYNH, CHUCK
18882645 Methods and Apparatus Supporting User Equipment (UE) Access to a Core Network Via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Facilitating Transfer of Application Data via the Core Network MERED, HABTE
18818514 5G OVER COAXIAL ENABLED SMALL CELL SYSTEMS AND METHODS AREVALO, JOSEPH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2411 2
2642 2
2465 2
2467 2
2415 2
2444 2
2477 2
2478 2
2413 2
2421 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19314048 Apparatus and Methods for a Large Language Model with Semantic Audio for Targeted Advertising Video Stream BANTAMOI, ANTHONY 2422 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2025
19018310 System And Method For Application and Session-Specific Tagging in Internet Protocol (IP) Packets SHIN, KYUNG H 2447 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 13, 2025
18991261 TIMEOUT PERIOD FOR REJECTED AUTHENTICATION REQUESTS LIPMAN, JACOB 2434 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18959074 ADAPTING 5G NR SPATIAL COMPONENTS FOR STACKED TRANSMISSION VIA RF/OPTICAL MEDIA VLAHOS, SOPHIA 2633 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection 40d Pending Nov 25, 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
18922373 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LOW COMPLEXITY SPECTRUM SHARING HUYNH, CHUCK §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2024
18899401 WIRELESS BASE STATION INSTALLATION BASED ON DEVICE SPEED CHOI, WON JUN 2411 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18882645 Methods and Apparatus Supporting User Equipment (UE) Access to a Core Network Via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Facilitating Transfer of Application Data via the Core Network MERED, HABTE §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2024
18828303 REDUCED SPECTRUM ALLOCATION IN CBRS NETWORKS MAGLOIRE, ELISABETH BENOIT DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 09, 2024
18818514 5G OVER COAXIAL ENABLED SMALL CELL SYSTEMS AND METHODS AREVALO, JOSEPH 2642 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2024
18815532 5G BANDWIDTH PART CONFIGURATION METHOD IN CBRS FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORK AHMED, ABDULLAHI DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 26, 2024
18798974 Apparatus and Method for Network Function Signaling Latency Reduction KIM, CHONG G DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 09, 2024
18762117 SPECTRUM CONTROL USING SILENT PERIODS CHEEMA, HASAN ALI 2465 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jul 02, 2024
18762568 Emergency Broadcast System with Capability to Interrupt Immersive Entertainment Sources GRANT, GILBERT MUGARULA 2642 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 02, 2024
18758788 ADAPTER FOR CABLE CONNECTION PAUMEN, GARY F 2834 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18738765 SECURE AUTHENTICATION OF DIGITAL HUMANS ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 2441 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2024
18676293 DISCOVERY OF TIME DIVISION DUPLEX (TDD) CONFIGURATION OF INTRA-OPERATOR AND INTER-OPERATOR CELLS CHO, HONG SOL 2467 DPOther Non-Final OA 65d Pending May 28, 2024
18671014 DYNAMIC WIRELESS NETWORK WITH DATA OFFLOADING PHAM, TUAN 2649 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 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
18653517 DYNAMICALLY UPGRADING A MODEM CHEN, QING 2191 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending May 02, 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
18649546 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE SECONDARY CONTENT INSERTION IN A DIGITAL NETWORK IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O 2494 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2024
18631040 Methods and Apparatus for Using Stream Classification Service to Enable Low Latency Treatment of MAC Service Data Units (MSDUs) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) PHUONG, DAI 2644 §103 Non-Final OA 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
18599577 DYNAMIC SECURITY PROTOCOL SELECTION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK LE, LANA N 2648 §101§103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18583511 DYNAMIC ANTENNA DEVICE RECONFIGURATION FOR SPECTRUM ACCESS REQUESTS FOLLOWING INCUMBENT-BASED SUSPENSION NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 2415 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18442680 RECLASSIFICATION AND PRIORITY QUEUE CONTROL HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 2444 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18439031 Software-controlled Battery Charging and Monitoring of Access CPE Devices BACA, MATTHEW WALTER 4100 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 12, 2024
18418633 Self-optimizing Networks Using Speed Test Results DU, ZONGHUA A 2444 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 22, 2024
18417436 DETERMINING COVERAGE AREA OVERLAP OF BASE STATIONS IN PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER RANEW, BENJAMIN THOMAS 2465 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18415214 OPTIMIZING FREQUENCY SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT BASED ON HIGH-FIDELITY OBSTRUCTION HEIGHTS FERRIS, DERRICK W 2411 §102§103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18410530 REPETITION MODE CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION SIGNAL REPETITION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK POLLACK, MELVIN H 2445 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 11, 2024
18398045 SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK SABOURI, MAZDA 2641 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 27, 2023
18389673 MESSAGING PORTAL SUPPORTED BY OPERATORS IN WI-FI NETWORKS PATEL, HARESH N 2496 §103 Final Rejection 9d 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 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 07, 2023
18528289 WIRELESS REPEATER APPARATUS AND METHODS OF OPERATION NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T 2477 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2023
18513625 PERCEIVED EYE-CONTACT IN LIVE VIDEO CONFERENCING SYSTEMS NGUYEN, DUC MINH 2600 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 19, 2023
18389007 LOW-LATENCY TRADING PLATFORM AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ 3693 §101 Final Rejection Pending Nov 13, 2023
18500647 PRELOADING A CUSTOMER CONTEXT IN A VIRTUAL GATEWAY SANTOS, FRANCESCA LIMA 2468 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 02, 2023
18497462 RECONFIGURATION OF MODEM DEVICES TO LIMIT CHANNEL BONDING CAPACITY CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Oct 30, 2023
18383414 Methods and Apparatus for Implementing a Mesh Network of Access Points Capable of Providing Multiple Levels of Service AHMED, ATIQUE 2413 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2023
18493349 NOTIFYING A VIRTUAL GATEWAY OF QOS TREATMENT FOR A COMPUTING DEVICE CONNECTING TO A LOCAL AREA NETWORK PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L 2455 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2023
18487577 PERSONALIZED MACHINE-LEARNED MODEL ENSEMBLES FOR RENDERING OF PHOTOREALISTIC FACIAL REPRESENTATIONS STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2023
18475319 FREQUENCY RANGE ALLOCATION TO REDUCE INTERFERENCE IN USER EQUIPMENT IN PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER NGUYEN, THE HY 2478 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2023
18467149 POWERING A FIBER-TO-COAXIAL TAP DEVICE WOLDEKIDAN, HIBRET ASNAKE 2635 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 14, 2023
18237393 PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER WITH BUILT-IN DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC DUONG, DUC T 2467 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18236383 DYNAMIC NETWORK SLICING FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS USING CLUSTERING AND PACKET INSPECTION HUA, QUAN M 2645 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 21, 2023
18232886 Methods, Devices, and Systems for Mid-Stream Content Delivery Network (CDN) Steering CHOKSHI, PINKAL R 2425 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2023
18354360 CREDENTIAL MISUSE DETECTION VIA ENTROPIC ANALYSIS OF STREAMING BEHAVIOR VARIABILITY PRASAD, NANCY N 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18217886 ACCOMMODATING PRIORITY SERVICE USERS IN IEEE 802.11BE BSS SIVJI, NIZAR N 2647 §112 Non-Final OA 329d overdue Pending Jul 03, 2023
18206350 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING INCUMBENT AND HIGH PRIORITY USERS OF UNLICENSED SPECTRUM RIVAS, SALVADOR E 2413 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 06, 2023
18138248 AUTHENTICATION MANAGEMENT AND WIRELESS ACCESS CONTROL VIA CONFIGURATION SETTINGS ASRES, HERMON 2449 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 24, 2023
18134286 WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY AND MOTION/GESTURE MONITORING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 3648 §103§112 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2023
18163719 LOW BITRATE DIGITAL HUMAN COMMUNICATION SESSIONS USING MOTION CAPTURE DATA STREAMS MINKO, DENIS VASILIY 2612 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 02, 2023
18092378 MONITORING LOCATION OF A TRANSCEIVER IN A NETWORK TO MITIGATE INTERFERENCE DUFFY, JAMES P 2461 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2023
17736289 MOBILE DYNAMIC APPLICATION PACKET KIT (APK) PAN, HANG 2193 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 04, 2022
17700919 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING SWITCHING OF TRAFFIC CORRESPONDING TO A COMMUNICATION SESSION BETWEEN TWO NON-3GPP ACCESS PATHS KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Mar 22, 2022
17684595 CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK RANDHAWA, MANDISH K 2477 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 2022
17590418 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SECURING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A MEDIATION DEVICE AND POINT OF INTERCEPT DAVIS, ZACHARY A 2492 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 01, 2022
17306470 ENCRYPTING DATA IN A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL WANG, CHAO 2439 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 03, 2021
18592042 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF MULTICAST AND UNICAST CONTENT IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK MONTOYA, OSCHTA I 2421 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Feb 29, 2024
18200319 PERSONAL MEDIA CHANNEL APPARATUS AND METHODS SALCE, JASON P 2421 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2023

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