Term ended Oct 6, 2018 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 6, 2018
Held by Intel Corporation
Filed Aug 22, 2003 as application 10/646,933 · Granted Oct 16, 2007
Base term plus 571 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Oct 6, 2018
1998
2026
Clock starts
Oct 6, 1998
Oct 6, 1998
Term ended
Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018
Granted
Oct 16, 2007
Oct 16, 2007
base term
after the term ends
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
571
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 6,633,918.
3 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.
111
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 runs 571 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 6, 1998, when application 09/167,521, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 22, 2003); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 6, 2018 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +571 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 29, 2020 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 6,633,918) | capped to Oct 6, 2018 | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 6, 2018 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,402,005 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 6,633,918 | Term ended no later than Oct 2018 | no later than Oct 2018 |
| US 7,349,976 | Term ended Feb 2016 | Feb 2016 |
| US 8,216,071 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2016 | Jul 2016 |
| US 6,671,807 | Term ended Oct 2018 | Oct 2018 |
| US 6,968,387 | Term ended May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 7,925,770 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2015 | Apr 2015 |
| US 7,284,065 | this patent Oct 2018 | Oct 2018 |
8 of 111 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2011 Reel 25592, frame 973 | Agarwal, Rahul; Ayars, Jeffrey M.; Hefta-gaub, Bradley D.; Greenbaum, Gary S.; Lippman, Alan F.; Patel, Sujal M.; Stammen, Dale R.; Rosedale, Philip; Vergato, Bryan | Realnetworks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 8, 2012 Reel 28752, frame 734 | Realnetworks, Inc. | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 571 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 6,633,918.
Citations
50
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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