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Method for end to end route control

US 7,898,970 Term ended
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Term ended Jul 19, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Oct 15, 2008 as application 12/252,183 · Granted Mar 1, 2011
Base term plus 147 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jul 19, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Feb 22, 2005
Term ended
Jul 19, 2025
Granted
Mar 1, 2011
base term patent term adjustment 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
147
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.
2
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 147 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

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 Feb 22, 2005, when application 11/063,057, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 15, 2008)Feb 22, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+147 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 19, 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 orderJul 19, 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
Nov 9, 2010
Reel 25337, frame 437
Internap Network Services CorporationWells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, as AgentSecurity Agreement
Dec 4, 2013
Reel 31710, frame 635
Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC (as Agent)Internap Network Services CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Dec 5, 2013
Reel 31765, frame 527
Internap Network Services CorporationJefferies Finance LLC (as Collateral Agent)Security Agreement
Feb 16, 2015
Reel 35000, frame 349
Internap Network Services CorporationInternap CorporationChange of Name
Apr 7, 2017
Reel 41929, frame 328
Jefferies Finance LLCInternap CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Jan 5, 2018
Reel 44547, frame 29
Internap CorporationJefferies Finance LLCSecurity Interest
May 8, 2020
Reel 52616, frame 515
Internap Holding LLCWilmington Trust, National AssociationSecurity Interest
May 8, 2020
Reel 52617, frame 103
Jefferies Finance LLCInternap CorporationRelease of Patent Security Agreement Recorded at Reel 044547/FRAME 0029
May 11, 2020
Reel 52628, frame 18
Jefferies Finance LLCInternap CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Dec 29, 2020
Reel 54868, frame 48
Internap CorporationInternap Holding LLCChange of Name
Sep 27, 2021
Reel 57615, frame 812
Internap Holding LLCWilmington Trust, National AssociationSecurity Interest
May 10, 2022
Reel 59884, frame 443
Wilmington Trust, National AssociationInternap Holding LLCRelease of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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