Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: SWIFT, CHARLES M

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

This examiner grants 81% of resolved cases

Analysis

Charles M. Swift is a prolific examiner in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 2191, with 899 resolved cases. He maintains a high allowance rate of 80.6%, which is favorable for applicants. The interview lift is 22.6%, suggesting that interviews further enhance the already high likelihood of obtaining a patent grant.

The median days to allowance is 1105. This figure represents the typical timeline for successful prosecution under Swift's review. Given the large sample of 899 resolved cases, the 80.6% allowance rate and 22.6% interview lift are very reliable metrics. Practitioners in Art Unit 2191 should find these statistics encouraging for their prosecution efforts. The 1105-day median is a key benchmark for setting expectations in Tech Center 4100 and helps in planning long-term portfolio strategies.

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

Performance Statistics

80.7%
Allow Rate
+20.7% vs TC avg
939
Total Applications
+22.6%
Interview Lift
1106
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 900 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.1%
§101 Eligibility
16.3%
§102 Novelty
57.2%
§103 Obviousness
6.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18641173 SIGNAL AGGREGATION Final Rejection Apple Inc.
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.
18508006 MONITORING AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FUNCTION AND ADJUSTING THE SAME Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
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
18891761 TRADE PLATFORM WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING NETWORK AND MATCHING ENGINE Non-Final OA ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
18177508 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING SYSTEM PERFORMANCES Non-Final OA SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
18766405 CONNECTION-BASED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP INSTANCES Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18398457 VIRTUAL TERMINAL MAINTAINING A VIRTUAL TERMINAL STATE FOR A NEWLY CONNECTED CLIENT COMPUTER Final Rejection Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
18382341 PREDICTIVE HARDWARE LOAD BALANCING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
18319254 TASK SCHEDULING METHOD, GAME ENGINE, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18850053 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMPUTING RESOURCE ALLOCATION Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18732130 METHOD FOR GPU RESOURCE MANAGEMENT USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
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
18760678 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING EVENT CORRELATIONS Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18785360 IMPROVING RESOURCE EFFICIENCY VIA CAPACITY UNIT PREDICTION Non-Final OA SAP SE
18397393 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE PARAMETER-EFFICIENT FINE-TUNED MODELS Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
18632255 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE A PRIORITY Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18770535 METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING A VIRTUAL MACHINE Non-Final OA Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
18378500 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZED MULTI-THREADED EXTRACTION OF HISTORICAL DATA IN WORKFLOW AUTOMATION PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES Final Rejection BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
18073662 SEGREGATED FABRIC CONTROL PLANE Non-Final OA MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
18412789 Effective Monolith Development Using Microservices Final Rejection Dell Products, L.P.
18690232 METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICE OF VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE ALLOCATION Non-Final OA Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
17487472 SYNCHRONOUS LABELING OF OPERATIONAL STATE FOR WORKLOADS Final Rejection ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
18055180 DETECTING VULNERABILITIES IN CONFIGURATION CODE OF A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT UTILIZING INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE Non-Final OA Wiz, Inc.

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