Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Charles M Swift, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as SWIFT, CHARLES M

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2191 2194 2196 3715 4100

This examiner grants 81% of resolved cases

Analysis

SWIFT, CHARLES M is assigned to Tech Center 4100 and art unit 2191. The record includes 903 resolved cases, an 80.6% allowance rate, and a 22.7% interview lift. The median days to allowance is 1106. The case volume makes the figures a useful planning reference, and the interview result supports reserving room for examiner discussions in prosecution strategy.

The leading companies are International Business Machines Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and Intel Corporation. The associated firms are Astute IP Law Group, Harrity & Harrity, LLP, and Anderson Gorecki LLP. Their presence gives practitioners a concrete view of the technology and representation contexts reflected in this docket.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

80.6%
Allow Rate
+20.6% vs TC avg
958
Total Applications
+22.7%
Interview Lift
1106
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 903 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.2%
§101 Eligibility
16.5%
§102 Novelty
56.9%
§103 Obviousness
6.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18850053 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMPUTING RESOURCE ALLOCATION Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18408561 RESOURCE ALLOCATION MECHANISM FOR SCAN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18641173 SIGNAL AGGREGATION Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18767119 MANAGING DATA OUTPUT OF A WORKFLOW Final Rejection Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18780953 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18506548 COMPUTING NODE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18360429 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGEMENT OF DEVICE NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON PROXEMIC PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18191634 METHOD FOR SCHEDULING COMPUTE INSTANCE, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM Non-Final OA Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
18827270 Modeling Workload Migration In A Fleet Of Storage Systems Non-Final OA PURE STORAGE, INC.
18766405 CONNECTION-BASED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP INSTANCES Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18402088 THERMAL-AWARE INTERRUPT ROUTING IN AN INTERRUPT CONTROLLER IN PROCESSOR-BASED SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18478201 METHODOLOGY TO ENABLE HIGHLY RESPONSIVE GAMEPLAY IN CLOUD AND CLIENT GAMING Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17973328 SCHEDULING FUNCTION CALLS OF A TRANSACTIONAL APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) PROTOCOL BASED ON ARGUMENT DEPENDENCIES Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18542715 Onboard edge computation device, associated electronic system and method for executing software applications Final Rejection THALES
18891761 TRADE PLATFORM WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING NETWORK AND MATCHING ENGINE Non-Final OA ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
18398457 VIRTUAL TERMINAL MAINTAINING A VIRTUAL TERMINAL STATE FOR A NEWLY CONNECTED CLIENT COMPUTER Final Rejection Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
18319254 TASK SCHEDULING METHOD, GAME ENGINE, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18924717 COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH WORKLOAD AWARE DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCER Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18192199 AUTOMATICALLY TUNING LOGICAL PARTITION WEIGHTS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18170016 RESOURCE BALANCING ACROSS EDGE COMPUTING SERVERS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18531602 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO GENERATE SOFTWARE PROGRAMS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18925201 EPHEMERAL DATACENTER Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18669831 TECHNIQUES FOR SUPPORTING EXECUTION OF JOBS WITH CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION PLATFORMS Final Rejection Red Hat, Inc.
18412789 Effective Monolith Development Using Microservices Final Rejection Dell Products, L.P.
18397393 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE PARAMETER-EFFICIENT FINE-TUNED MODELS Final Rejection Adobe Inc.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Charles M Swift's allowance rate?

80.6% of resolved applications examined by Charles M Swift were allowed (903 resolved cases), compared with 75.5% across Art Unit 2191 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Charles M Swift?

This examiner's interview lift is +22.7 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Charles M Swift take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Charles M Swift took 1,106 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Charles M Swift work in?

Charles M Swift examines applications in Art Unit 2191 in Tech Center 4100.

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