562 patents currently held
1 more in force is now held by another company
Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.
The next term ends in May 2027. from the record
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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.
31
Ending by 2030
May 2027
Next term end
371
Patent families
When these terms end
Held patents by the year their term ends
notable patents
fee due within 90 days
all others
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
Notable: the highest-ranked patents in this portfolio by citations and family size. Fee due within 90 days: a maintenance fee is due within 90 days of when this page was computed and not yet paid.
Notable patents
Ranked by citations and family size, against patents of the same kind granted the same year. How we rank
Notable
Ends Aug 2030 · High confidence
Also notable
Ends Jan 2030 · High confidence
Also notable
Ends Feb 2038 · High confidence
Parallel Streaming
US 8,386,621
Cited by 117 later US patents, top 5% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, and renewed at 3 of 3 maintenance windows. Protection runs to 2030.
On-Device Multiplexing of Streaming Media Content
US 9,009,337
Cited by 184 later US patents, top 5% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, and renewed at 3 of 3 maintenance windows. Protection runs to 2030.
Iterative Techniques for Generating Multiple Encoded Versions of a Media Title
US 10,742,708
Cited by 19 later US patents, top 10% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data. Protection runs to 2038. A terminal disclaimer caps this term to an earlier patent's.
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.
- 4 fees due Nov 28 to 30, 2026 · next Nov 28
- 13 fees due Dec 4 to 25, 2026 · next Dec 4
- 15 fees due Jan 4 to 30, 2027 · next Jan 4
- 11 fees due Feb 1 to 28, 2027 · next Feb 1
- 16 fees due Mar 3 to 26, 2027 · next Mar 3
- 7 fees due Apr 1 to 22, 2027 · next Apr 1
- 14 fees due May 7 to 28, 2027 · next May 7
- 7 fees due Jun 3 to 30, 2027 · next Jun 3
- 9 fees due Jul 2 to 28, 2027 · next Jul 2
- 10 fees due Aug 4 to 27, 2027 · next Aug 4
- 10 fees due Sep 3 to 30, 2027 · next Sep 3
- 10 fees due Oct 2 to 30, 2027 · next Oct 2
- 5 fees due Nov 7 to 14, 2027 · next Nov 7
Recent changes
- 22 of the patents on this record were granted since Aug 17, 2026
What they patent
The 5 largest of its 371 families, grouped by real patent family and labeled by the earliest filing in each. No technology classification is inferred from titles.
| Iterative Techniques for Encoding Video Content | 9 in force | to Feb 2038 |
| Temporal Placement of a Rebuffering Event | 5 in force | to Sep 2037 |
| System and Method for Detecting Active Streams Using a Heartbeat and Secure Stop Mechanism | 5 in force | to Jul 2032 |
| Methods and Systems for Providing Dynamically Composed Personalized Media Assets | 4 in force | to Mar 2041 |
| Automated Video Cropping | 4 in force | to Jun 2039 |
Patents held now
Soonest term end first.
| Patent | Title | Status | Expires | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US 7,631,323 | Method of Sharing an Item Rental Account In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,761,444 | Identifying a Sequence of Blocks of Data to Retrieve Based on a Query In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 8,155,976 | Automated Mailer Envelope Addressing In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,848,968 | Processing Returned Rental Items In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,779,424 | System and Method for Attributing to a Corresponding Virtual Machine CPU Usage of an Isolated Driver Domain in Which a Shared Resource's Device Driver Resides In force · Medium confidence | In force | Medium confidence | |
| US 7,649,912 | Time Synchronization, Deterministic Data Delivery and Redundancy for Cascaded Nodes on Full Duplex Ethernet Networks In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,797,707 | System and Method for Attributing to a Corresponding Virtual Machine CPU Usage of a Domain in Which a Shared Resource's Device Driver Resides In force · Medium confidence | In force | Medium confidence | |
| US 9,521,354 | Adaptive Streaming for Digital Content Distribution In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 9,769,505 | Adaptive Streaming for Digital Content Distribution In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 9,648,385 | Adaptive Streaming for Digital Content Distribution In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence |
Also on record, not counted in the 562: 1 patent in force now held by others · 13 patents ended · 189 applications pending · 27 applications abandoned. List them
Sources and methods
Compiled from USPTO application file histories, grants and recorded assignments, with the company's own names reviewed by hand. How this record was built
Portfolio grouped automatically from ownership conveyances to the names matched to this company, usually every name that begins with its own, so it counts patents an affiliate holds; each list row names the holder of record. Security interests are excluded and ambiguous records are not reviewed by hand.
Fee due within 90 days marks a patent with a maintenance fee due within 90 days of the date this page was computed and not yet recorded paid, so it can end earlier than the bar shows. A fee left unpaid ends the patent at the close of the six month grace period that follows its due date, not on the due date itself. It is not a prediction that the fee will be missed.
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.