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Packet Processing System, Method and Device Utilizing a Port Client Chain

US 11,586,562 In force
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Term ends Mar 30, 2035 · High confidence

Filed Jul 8, 2021 as application 17/370,224 · Granted Feb 21, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2015 2035
Clock starts
Mar 30, 2015
Term ends
Mar 30, 2035
Granted
Feb 21, 2023
base term fee events 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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,606,942, to Mar 30, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
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Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 30, 2015, when application 14/673,828, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 8, 2021)Mar 30, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,606,942)resolves to Mar 30, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 30, 2035High confidence

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US 9,606,942In force
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US 10,289,575In force
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US 11,093,415In force
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US 11,310,859In force
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US 11,586,562this patent
Mar 2035
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US 11,723,103In force
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US 11,874,781In force
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8 of 12 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 8, 2021
Reel 56790, frame 755
Musoll, Enrique; Daniel, TsahiXpliant, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 8, 2021
Reel 56790, frame 798
Xpliant, Inc.Cavium Networks LLCMerger
Jul 8, 2021
Reel 56791, frame 218
Cavium Networks LLCCavium, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 8, 2021
Reel 56810, frame 85
Cavium InternationalMarvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 8, 2021
Reel 56820, frame 195
Cavium, LLCCavium InternationalAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 8, 2021
Reel 56834, frame 116
Cavium, Inc.Cavium, LLCChange of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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