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System and Method for Authorized Digital Content Distribution

US 11,943,206 Term ended
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Term ended Feb 18, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Aug 16, 2022 as application 17/888,922 · Granted Mar 26, 2024
Base term plus 23 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Feb 18, 2026
2006 2026
Clock starts
Jan 26, 2006
Term ended
Feb 18, 2026
Granted
Mar 26, 2024
base term patent term adjustment 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
23
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
5
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This patent's term runs 23 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 26, 2006, when application 11/341,172, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 16, 2022)Jan 26, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+23 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 18, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 18, 2026High confidence

This family

US 9,077,691In force
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US 10,536,435In force
Jul 2028
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US 11,431,685Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2026
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US 11,943,206this patent
Feb 2026
Feb 2026
US 12,335,244Term ended
Jan 2026
Jan 2026
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
Aug 16, 2022
Reel 60822, frame 211
Marples, David J.; Wullert, John R., IITelcordia Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 16, 2022
Reel 60822, frame 214
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.Telcordia Licensing Company LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 16, 2022
Reel 60822, frame 234
Telcordia Licensing Company LLCTti Inventions C LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 16, 2022
Reel 60822, frame 261
Tti Inventions C LLCNytell Software LLCMerger

Sources

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