Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Charter Communications Operating LLC

61 pending office actions • 41 art units • 57 examiners • 0 of 61 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 144 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

61
Total Pending OAs
40
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 60 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

29
Overdue
1
Due this week
12
Due this month
9
Due in next 60 days
9
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. 60 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (29)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (12)Due ≤ 60 days (9)Due later (9)

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.

3
Hard (5%)
52
Medium (85%)
2
Easy (3%)
4
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (5%)
§103 only49 (80%)
§102 only2 (3%)
§112 only2 (3%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
No statute on record4 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
41
Information Tech
67% of docket
13
Communications
21% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
10% of docket
1
Business / Other
2% 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.

610 h
Manual time on pending OAs
122 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
214 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAINT CYR, JEAN D 2 60.3% +8.4%
PHILLIPS, MICHAEL K 2 84.9% +25.5%
NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 2 77.3% +24.1%
DIVITO, WALTER J 2 83.3% +10.8%
OCAK, ADIL 1 74.5% +18.3%
VLAHOS, SOPHIA 1 87.1% +10.5%
HA, DAC V 1 93.5% +6.6%
SALL, EL HADJI MALICK 1 91.2% -8.3%
PARK, CHONGSUH 1 59.8% +18.2%
CHEEMA, HASAN ALI 1

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
18959074 ADAPTING 5G NR SPATIAL COMPONENTS FOR STACKED TRANSMISSION VIA RF/OPTICAL MEDIA VLAHOS, SOPHIA 40d
18649755 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED HIGH-CAPACITY DATA AND WIRELESS IoT (INTERNET OF THINGS) SERVICES PHILLIPS, MICHAEL K 62d
18381877 COMMUNICATION SCHEDULING IN A NETWORK BASED ON LINK QUALITY PHILLIPS, MICHAEL K

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18354360 CREDENTIAL MISUSE DETECTION VIA ENTROPIC ANALYSIS OF STREAMING BEHAVIOR VARIABILITY PRASAD, NANCY N 35d overdue
18609463 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING USING INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSING MACASIANO, MARILYN G 5d
18424762 AUTOMATED POWER OUTAGE DETECTION, REPORTING AND MITIGATION LAKHANI, ANDREW C 61d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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
19020813 OPTIMIZED AD PLACEMENT BASED ON AUTOMATED VIDEO ANALYSIS AND DEEP METADATA EXTRACTION OCAK, ADIL 36d overdue
18583511 DYNAMIC ANTENNA DEVICE RECONFIGURATION FOR SPECTRUM ACCESS REQUESTS FOLLOWING INCUMBENT-BASED SUSPENSION NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 13d
18959074 ADAPTING 5G NR SPATIAL COMPONENTS FOR STACKED TRANSMISSION VIA RF/OPTICAL MEDIA VLAHOS, SOPHIA 40d
18794541 POWER SAVINGS IN A HYBRID MOBILE NETWORK PARK, CHONGSUH 42d
18649755 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED HIGH-CAPACITY DATA AND WIRELESS IoT (INTERNET OF THINGS) SERVICES PHILLIPS, MICHAEL K 62d
18375746 WIRELESS ACCESS CONTROL VIA CONFIGURATION SETTINGS NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 62d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2465 4
2643 3
2461 3
2496 3
2633 2
2425 2
2457 2
2478 2
2467 2
2611 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19020813 OPTIMIZED AD PLACEMENT BASED ON AUTOMATED VIDEO ANALYSIS AND DEEP METADATA EXTRACTION OCAK, ADIL 2426 §112 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2025
18959074 ADAPTING 5G NR SPATIAL COMPONENTS FOR STACKED TRANSMISSION VIA RF/OPTICAL MEDIA VLAHOS, SOPHIA 2633 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18951479 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATION BETWEEN WIRELINE BACKHAUL AND WIRELESS SYSTEMS SAINT CYR, JEAN D 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Nov 18, 2024
18924712 Method and System to Mitigate Cable Plant Faults using Access CPE Device HA, DAC V 2633 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Oct 23, 2024
18886510 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING CAPACITY IN WIRELINE CABLE NETWORKS WITH VIRTUAL SERVICE GROUPS SALL, EL HADJI MALICK 2457 Other Non-Final OA 35d Pending Sep 16, 2024
18794541 POWER SAVINGS IN A HYBRID MOBILE NETWORK PARK, CHONGSUH 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Aug 05, 2024
18762117 SPECTRUM CONTROL USING SILENT PERIODS CHEEMA, HASAN ALI 2465 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jul 02, 2024
18746914 AUTHORIZATION INTERMEDIARY TO REDUCE NETWORK TRAFFIC WITH AND PROCESSOR UTILIZATION OF A BACK-END AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM HOSSAIN, FARZANA E 2482 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18745787 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING PLATFORM AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION LAZARO, DAVID R 2455 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jun 17, 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
18655580 REAL-TIME EXTRACTION OF 3D ANIMATION INFORMATION FROM PREDICTED SPEECH ZHAI, KYLE 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending May 06, 2024
18649755 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED HIGH-CAPACITY DATA AND WIRELESS IoT (INTERNET OF THINGS) SERVICES PHILLIPS, MICHAEL K 2464 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18633301 Distributed Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) Enabled LEAF JOO, JOSHUA 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 11, 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 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Apr 09, 2024
18609463 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING USING INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSING MACASIANO, MARILYN G 3622 §101 Final Rejection 5d Pending Mar 19, 2024
18599577 DYNAMIC SECURITY PROTOCOL SELECTION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK LE, LANA N 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18596029 OPTIMIZING SECURITY IN WIRELESS NETWORKS HONG, DUNG 2643 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18592195 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND DISTRIBUTING POLICY IN WIRELESS NETWORKS CUMMING, WILLIAM D 2645 §102 Final Rejection 61d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18583511 DYNAMIC ANTENNA DEVICE RECONFIGURATION FOR SPECTRUM ACCESS REQUESTS FOLLOWING INCUMBENT-BASED SUSPENSION NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 2415 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18581271 Methods For Generating Advertisement Videos Consistent With The Context And Storyline Of A Primary Video Stream SAINT CYR, JEAN D 2425 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Feb 19, 2024
18442680 RECLASSIFICATION AND PRIORITY QUEUE CONTROL HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 2444 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18439817 COMMUNICATION SCHEDULING IN A NETWORK BASED ON DIFFERENT QOS PHUNKULH, BOB A 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18426893 SELECTIVE DEVICE TUNNELING AND LOCAL NETWORK CONNECTIVITY NGUYEN, BAO G 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18424762 AUTOMATED POWER OUTAGE DETECTION, REPORTING AND MITIGATION LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3629 §101 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Jan 27, 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 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18408218 CONTENT STREAMING APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION WITHOUT A SECOND SCREEN APPLICATION SHOLEMAN, ABU S 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jan 09, 2024
18390826 WIRELESS ACCESS POINT INSTALLATION MANAGEMENT IQBAL, KHAWAR 2643 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18545972 Methods and Apparatus for Mitigating and/or Avoiding Interference in Uncoordinated Networks PHUNG, LUAT 2468 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18389673 MESSAGING PORTAL SUPPORTED BY OPERATORS IN WI-FI NETWORKS PATEL, HARESH N 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18544058 Methods and Apparatus for Streaming Augmented Reality Content Synchronized with Physical Objects and/or Digital Content Being Viewed MONTOYA, OSCHTA I 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18531272 DELIVERING AND MONITORING EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM (EAS) MEDIA FILES VIA ROUTER COMPUTING DEVICES USING REDIRECTION RESPONSES SHANG, ANNAN Q 2424 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18497462 RECONFIGURATION OF MODEM DEVICES TO LIMIT CHANNEL BONDING CAPACITY CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL 2478 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Oct 30, 2023
18381877 COMMUNICATION SCHEDULING IN A NETWORK BASED ON LINK QUALITY PHILLIPS, MICHAEL K 2464 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 19, 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
18377744 Methods and Apparatus for Supporting and Using a QUIC connection between a UE and N3IWF in a Communications System CARDONE, JASON D 2458 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18375620 FULL REFERENCE VIDEO QUALITY MEASUREMENTS OF VIDEO CONFERENCING OVER THE CONGESTED NETWORKS NASSER, ROBERT L 3992 Other Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2023
18375746 WIRELESS ACCESS CONTROL VIA CONFIGURATION SETTINGS NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 2415 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18237393 PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER WITH BUILT-IN DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC DUONG, DUC T 2467 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18223566 WIRELESS SIGNAL MONITORING AND CONNECTION CONTROL EISNER, RONALD 2644 §112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18354360 CREDENTIAL MISUSE DETECTION VIA ENTROPIC ANALYSIS OF STREAMING BEHAVIOR VARIABILITY PRASAD, NANCY N 3624 §101 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18353574 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC INFORMATION GENERATION USING SMART TRAFFIC SIGNALS PHAM, CLINT V 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18217886 ACCOMMODATING PRIORITY SERVICE USERS IN IEEE 802.11BE BSS SIVJI, NIZAR N 2647 §103 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 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 06, 2023
18144833 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD WITH SELECTIVE LATENCY REDUCTION GERGISO, TECHANE 2408 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18134286 WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY AND MOTION/GESTURE MONITORING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2023
18108492 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS DEVICE ATTACHMENT IN A MANAGED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE RENNER, BRANDON M 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Feb 10, 2023
18095744 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AND/OR USING KPIs IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS BARRY, JUSTIN ARTHUR 2643 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2023
18092378 MONITORING LOCATION OF A TRANSCEIVER IN A NETWORK TO MITIGATE INTERFERENCE DUFFY, JAMES P 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2023
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 2465 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2022
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 2465 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2022
17968319 METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTINUOUS CONNECTIVITY TO A DEVICE BAIG, ADNAN 2461 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2022
17961835 LOCATION MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL 2642 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 07, 2022
17889990 INTELLIGENT SUBSCRIBER LINE DE-ASSIGNING FOR BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT TALIOUA, ABDELBASST 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2022
17876984 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CELL ACTIVATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS HAMMONDS, MARCUS C 2647 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2022
17851976 Thumbnail-Based N-Enforced Advertisement Frequency for Content Delivery Systems TC 3600, DOCKET 3600 §103 Final Rejection 120d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2022
17736289 MOBILE DYNAMIC APPLICATION PACKET KIT (APK) PAN, HANG 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 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
17510145 CONNECTING TO A WIRELESS NETWORK BASED ON A DEVICE MOBILITY STATE HOLLAND, JENEE LAUREN 2469 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Oct 25, 2021
17357202 SEAMLESS MICRO-SERVICES DATA SOURCE MIGRATION WITH MIRRORING MILLS, PAUL V 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2021
16953610 PHONE CALL ENDPOINT SECURITY ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 20, 2020

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