Tekelec, Inc.
47 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.
46
Ending by 2030
Feb 2027
Next term end
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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.
- 2 fees due Dec 9 to 30, 2026 · next Dec 9
- 4 fees due Jan 14 to 28, 2027 · next Jan 14
- 3 fees due Feb 4 to 18, 2027 · next Feb 4
- 2 fees due Mar 29, 2027
- 2 fees due Apr 20 to 27, 2027 · next Apr 20
- 3 fees due May 10 to 12, 2027 · next May 10
- 2 fees due Jun 15 to 29, 2027 · next Jun 15
- 1 fee due Jul 19, 2027The maintenance fee for Methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamically and conditionally setting service triggers in a communications network (US 9,241,202) comes due Jul 19, 2027. Unpaid by Jan 19, 2028, it lapses early.
- 2 fees due Aug 2 to 23, 2027 · next Aug 2
- 1 fee due Sep 29, 2027The maintenance fee for Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing a virtualized diameter network architecture and for routing traffic to dynamically instantiated diameter resource instances (US 9,298,515) comes due Sep 29, 2027. Unpaid by Mar 29, 2028, it lapses early.
- 4 fees due Oct 12 to 19, 2027 · next Oct 12
- 2 fees due Nov 3, 2027
Recent changes
- 4 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 7,864,665 | Methods and Systems for Detecting IP Route Failure and for Dynamically Re-Routing VoIP Sessions in Response to Failure In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,787,445 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing and processing ENUM queries In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record | |
| US 7,606,202 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for offloading call control services from a first network of a first type to a second network of a second type In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record | |
| US 7,929,419 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for inhibiting message traffic to an unavailable terminating SIP server In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record | |
| US 8,204,057 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing an enriched messaging service in a communications network In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record | |
| US 7,933,608 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing presence gateway functionality in a telecommunications network In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record | |
| US 8,045,983 | Methods systems, and computer program products for providing internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) services in response to advanced intelligent network (AIN) triggers In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record | |
| US 7,907,713 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for using a presence database to deliver enhanced presence information regarding communications made to or from a presentity In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record | |
| US 7,738,489 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for using signaling system 7 (SS7) subsystem numbers to route messages to session initiation protocol (SIP) nodes In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record | |
| US 7,860,799 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing media content delivery audit and verification services In force · From the USPTO record | In force | From the USPTO record |
Also on record, not counted in the 159: 47 patents in force now held by others · 16 lapsed for an unpaid fee · 137 ended at full term. List them
Sources and methods
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How this record was built
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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.
1 abandoned · 36 no status recorded