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Techniques for Providing Connections to Services in a Network Environment

US 11,968,131 Term ended
OverviewFamilySources & methods

Term ended May 19, 2024 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Sep 21, 2022 as application 17/934,014 · Granted Apr 23, 2024
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended May 19, 2024
2004 2026
Clock starts
May 19, 2004
Term ended
May 19, 2024
Granted
Apr 23, 2024
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.
6
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. Confidence: Medium. 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 May 19, 2004, when application 10/849,602, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 21, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)May 19, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh 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 orderMay 19, 2024Medium confidence

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