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Method of Enhancing Media Content and a Media Enhancement System

US 7,503,059 Term ended
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Term ended Dec 6, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Dec 28, 2001 as application 10/034,832 · Granted Mar 10, 2009
Base term plus 1439 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Dec 6, 2025
2001 2026
Clock starts
Dec 28, 2001
Term ended
Dec 6, 2025
Granted
Mar 10, 2009
base term patent term adjustment 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
1,439
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
11
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 1439 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 28, 2001, when this application, 10/034,832, was filedDec 28, 2021High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1439 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 6, 2025High 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 orderDec 6, 2025High confidence

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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
Apr 11, 2006
Reel 17786, frame 298
Rothschild, Leigh M.Rothschild Trust Holdings, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 20, 2009
Reel 22427, frame 208
Rothschild Trust Holdings, LLCReagan Inventions, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 23, 2010
Reel 24576, frame 600
Rothschild Trust Holdings, LLCReagan Inventions, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 26, 2010
Reel 24738, frame 552
Reagan Inventions, LLCPortulim Foundation LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 31, 2015
Reel 37391, frame 291
Portulim Foundation LLCNytell Software LLCMerger
Jan 7, 2019
Reel 47922, frame 669
Nytell Software LLCIntellectual Ventures Assets 122 LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 25, 2019
Reel 48143, frame 607
Rovi CorporationRovi Technologies CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 25, 2019
Reel 48143, frame 615
Intellectual Ventures Assets 127 LLC; Intellectual Ventures Assets 122 LLCRovi CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 22, 2019
Reel 51143, frame 468
Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions, Inc.; Veveo, Inc.HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Nov 25, 2019
Reel 51110, frame 6
Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions, Inc.; Veveo, Inc.Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Jun 1, 2020
Reel 53468, frame 1
Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions Inc.; Veveo, Inc.; Invensas Corporation; Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc.; Tessera, Inc.; Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc.; DTS, Inc.; Phorus, Inc.; Ibiquity Digital CorporationBank Of America, N.a.Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
Reel 53458, frame 749
HPS Investment Partners, LLCRovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions, Inc.; Veveo, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
Reel 53481, frame 790
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Rovi Solutions Corporation; Rovi Technologies Corporation; Rovi Guides, Inc.; TiVo Solutions, Inc.; Veveo, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
HPS Investment Partners, LLCRovi Solutions CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
HPS Investment Partners, LLCRovi Technologies CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
HPS Investment Partners, LLCRovi Guides, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
HPS Investment Partners, LLCTiVo Solutions, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
HPS Investment Partners, LLCVeveo, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Rovi Solutions CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Rovi Technologies CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Rovi Guides, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.TiVo Solutions, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 5, 2020
reel/frame not recorded
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Veveo, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Sep 25, 2024
Reel 69048, frame 223
Rovi Technologies CorporationAdeia Technologies Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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