Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dority & Manning, P.A. And Charter Communications

12 pending office actions • 1 client • 12 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (92%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (92%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
9
Information Tech
75% of docket
2
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOSSAIN, FARZANA E 1 65.3% +18.3%
ZHAI, KYLE 1 74.5% +18.4%
NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 1 77.3% +24.1%
RANEW, BENJAMIN THOMAS 1 100.0% +0.0%
FERRIS, DERRICK W 1 21.9% -4.9%
SHOLEMAN, ABU S 1 78.5% +27.2%
SHANG, ANNAN Q 1 70.8% +10.8%
CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL 1 71.4% +39.2%
STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM 1 33.3% +100.0%
PHAM, CLINT V 1 45.1% +34.5%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18417436 DETERMINING COVERAGE AREA OVERLAP OF BASE STATIONS IN PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER RANEW, BENJAMIN THOMAS 43d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18415214 OPTIMIZING FREQUENCY SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT BASED ON HIGH-FIDELITY OBSTRUCTION HEIGHTS FERRIS, DERRICK W 28d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18655580 REAL-TIME EXTRACTION OF 3D ANIMATION INFORMATION FROM PREDICTED SPEECH ZHAI, KYLE 84d overdue
18487577 PERSONALIZED MACHINE-LEARNED MODEL ENSEMBLES FOR RENDERING OF PHOTOREALISTIC FACIAL REPRESENTATIONS STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM 42d overdue
18353574 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC INFORMATION GENERATION USING SMART TRAFFIC SIGNALS PHAM, CLINT V 32d overdue
18583511 DYNAMIC ANTENNA DEVICE RECONFIGURATION FOR SPECTRUM ACCESS REQUESTS FOLLOWING INCUMBENT-BASED SUSPENSION NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 13d
18531272 DELIVERING AND MONITORING EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM (EAS) MEDIA FILES VIA ROUTER COMPUTING DEVICES USING REDIRECTION RESPONSES SHANG, ANNAN Q 14d
18746914 AUTHORIZATION INTERMEDIARY TO REDUCE NETWORK TRAFFIC WITH AND PROCESSOR UTILIZATION OF A BACK-END AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM HOSSAIN, FARZANA E 33d
18497462 RECONFIGURATION OF MODEM DEVICES TO LIMIT CHANNEL BONDING CAPACITY CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL 39d
18408218 CONTENT STREAMING APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION WITHOUT A SECOND SCREEN APPLICATION SHOLEMAN, ABU S 63d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Charter Communications 12

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26112
24962
24821
24151
24651
24111
24241
24781
36631
24451

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18746914 AUTHORIZATION INTERMEDIARY TO REDUCE NETWORK TRAFFIC WITH AND PROCESSOR UTILIZATION OF A BACK-END AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM Charter Communications Operating, LLC HOSSAIN, FARZANA E 2482 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18655580 REAL-TIME EXTRACTION OF 3D ANIMATION INFORMATION FROM PREDICTED SPEECH Charter Communications Operating, LLC ZHAI, KYLE 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending May 06, 2024
18583511 DYNAMIC ANTENNA DEVICE RECONFIGURATION FOR SPECTRUM ACCESS REQUESTS FOLLOWING INCUMBENT-BASED SUSPENSION Charter Communications Operating, LLC NOORISTANY, SULAIMAN 2415 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18417436 DETERMINING COVERAGE AREA OVERLAP OF BASE STATIONS IN PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER Charter Communications Operating, LLC 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 Charter Communications Operating, LLC FERRIS, DERRICK W 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18408218 CONTENT STREAMING APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION WITHOUT A SECOND SCREEN APPLICATION Charter Communications Operating, LLC SHOLEMAN, ABU S 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jan 09, 2024
18531272 DELIVERING AND MONITORING EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM (EAS) MEDIA FILES VIA ROUTER COMPUTING DEVICES USING REDIRECTION RESPONSES Charter Communications Operating, LLC SHANG, ANNAN Q 2424 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18497462 RECONFIGURATION OF MODEM DEVICES TO LIMIT CHANNEL BONDING CAPACITY Charter Communications Operating, LLC CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL 2478 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Oct 30, 2023
18487577 PERSONALIZED MACHINE-LEARNED MODEL ENSEMBLES FOR RENDERING OF PHOTOREALISTIC FACIAL REPRESENTATIONS Charter Communications Operating, LLC STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2023
18353574 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC INFORMATION GENERATION USING SMART TRAFFIC SIGNALS Charter Communications Operating, LLC PHAM, CLINT V 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
17889990 INTELLIGENT SUBSCRIBER LINE DE-ASSIGNING FOR BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT Charter Communications Operating, LLC TALIOUA, ABDELBASST 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2022
16953610 PHONE CALL ENDPOINT SECURITY Charter Communications Operating, LLC ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 20, 2020

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