Term ended Feb 10, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 10, 2024
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Mar 9, 2026.
Filed Sep 8, 2020 as application 17/015,021 · Granted Feb 1, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Feb 10, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2004
Feb 10, 2004
Term ended
Feb 10, 2024
Feb 10, 2024
Granted
Feb 1, 2022
Feb 1, 2022
base term
after the term ends
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
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Family applications on record here
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This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 10, 2004, when application 10/776,459, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 8, 2020) | Feb 10, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Mar 9, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 10, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,775,511 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 9,037,651 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 9,565,219 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| US 10,057,075 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 10,778,456 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 11,240,051 | this patent Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 11,627,008 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2021 Reel 56918, frame 473 | Vernon, Todd; Jones, Dan | Raindance Communications, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 20, 2021 Reel 56918, frame 901 | Raindance Communications, Inc. | Intercall, Inc. | Merger |
| Jul 20, 2021 Reel 56919, frame 384 | Intercall, Inc. | Open Invention Network LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2021 Reel 58426, frame 791 | Open Invention Network LLC | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 14, 2022 Reel 58736, frame 436 | Open Invention Network LLC | International Business Machines Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Effective Date of the Patent Assignment Agreement Dated November 30, 2021 Previously Recorded at Reel: 058426 Frame: 0791. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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later US patent cites this one
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