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Methods and Systems for Providing Auxiliary Content During User Interactivity with Digital Data Over a Network

US 7,401,151 Term ended
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Term ended Jan 29, 2021 · High confidence

Filed Feb 24, 2006 as application 11/361,121 · Granted Jul 15, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jan 29, 2021
2001 2026
Clock starts
Jan 29, 2001
Term ended
Jan 29, 2021
Granted
Jul 15, 2008
base term after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 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.
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.
25
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. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Jan 29, 2001, when application 09/771,751, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 24, 2006)Jan 29, 2021High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 29, 2021High confidence

This family

US 7,171,480Term ended
no later than Jan 2022
no later than Jan 2022
US 7,761,328Term ended
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
US 8,574,074In force
Sep 2030
Sep 2030
Application 11/354,140Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,401,151this patent
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
US 7,895,076Term ended
Aug 2019
Aug 2019
US 9,129,301Term ended
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
US 8,626,584In force
Aug 2029
Aug 2029
8 of 25 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
Nov 12, 2010
Reel 25351, frame 655
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.Sony Computer Entertainment America LLCChange of Name
May 4, 2016
Reel 38611, frame 887
Sony Computer Entertainment America LLCSony Interactive Entertainment America LLCChange of Name
Mar 30, 2020
Reel 53323, frame 567
Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLCSony Interactive Entertainment LLCMerger

Sources

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