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152 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026

198 more in force are now held by other companies

Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

Recorded under 2 name spellings.

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Nov 2026

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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.

1 fee due Nov 14, 2026
The maintenance fee for Directory Limit Based System and Method for Storing Media Segments (US 10,291,681) comes due Nov 14, 2026. Unpaid by May 14, 2027, it lapses early.
3 fees due Dec 2 to 23, 2026 · next Dec 2
1 fee due Jan 9, 2027
The maintenance fee for System and Method for Managing Segment Delivery and Bandwidth Responsive to Encoding Complexity Metrics (US 10,349,104) comes due Jan 9, 2027. Unpaid by Jul 9, 2027, it lapses early.
6 fees due Feb 4 to 27, 2027 · next Feb 4
3 fees due Mar 17 to 24, 2027 · next Mar 17
2 fees due Apr 3 to 22, 2027 · next Apr 3
3 fees due May 3 to 12, 2027 · next May 3
4 fees due Jun 1 to 22, 2027 · next Jun 1
1 fee due Jul 9, 2027
The maintenance fee for Incremental Billing with Blockchains (US 11,870,597) comes due Jul 9, 2027. Unpaid by Jan 10, 2028, it lapses early.
3 fees due Sep 8 to 29, 2027 · next Sep 8
3 fees due Oct 12 to 28, 2027 · next Oct 12
1 fee due Nov 10, 2027
The maintenance fee for Optimizing Abr Segment Sizes for Mobile Video Outage Coverage in an Abr Streaming Network (US 9,338,486) comes due Nov 10, 2027. Unpaid by May 10, 2028, it lapses early.

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Recent changes

13 terms have ended since Aug 16, 2026

Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.

Patent	Title	Status	Expires	Confidence
US 7,773,661	Method and Apparatus for Monitoring a Reductant (STANDBY) Transmitter in a Radio Communication System In force Term ends Nov 19, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 19, 2026	High confidence
US 7,477,642	MPLS Traffic Engineering for Point-To-Multipoint Label Switched Paths In force Term ends Nov 23, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 23, 2026	High confidence
US 9,473,242	Establishing Connection Across a Connection-Oriented First Telecommunications Network in Response to a Connection Request from a Second Telecommunications Network In force Term ends Dec 18, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Dec 18, 2026	High confidence
US 7,786,828	Waveguide Bandstop Filter In force Term ends Jan 10, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jan 10, 2027	High confidence
US 7,671,700	Hollow Waveguide Directional Coupler In force Term ends Jan 12, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jan 12, 2027	High confidence
US 7,480,516	Method and Apparatus of Forward Link and Reverse Link Power Control in a Cellular Wireless Communication System In force Term ends Feb 4, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 4, 2027	High confidence
US 7,729,360	Switching Network In force Term ends Feb 27, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 27, 2027	High confidence
US 7,796,518	Traffic Policing In force Term ends Mar 3, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Mar 3, 2027	High confidence
US 8,023,405	Method for Activation of Preplanned Circuits in Telecommunications Networks In force Term ends Mar 9, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Mar 9, 2027	High confidence
US 7,539,131	Nexthop Fast Rerouter for IP and MPLS In force Term ends Mar 20, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Mar 20, 2027	High confidence

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Also on record, not counted in the 152: 198 patents in force now held by others · 527 lapsed for an unpaid fee · 2,390 ended at full term · 4 past the fee grace period · 5 surrendered on reissue. List them

Sources and methods

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Published applications

US patent applications published under this name that have not become patents. An application is published about eighteen months after its earliest filing; one that has not been published is in no public record.

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