Lapsed Apr 12, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Filed Feb 26, 2010 as application 12/713,254 · Granted Apr 12, 2011

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Apr 12, 2023

2003 2026

Clock starts
Dec 30, 2003

No longer in force
Apr 12, 2023

Granted
Apr 12, 2011

Term would have run to
Dec 30, 2023

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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,672,439, to Dec 30, 2023. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

2 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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Dec 30, 2023: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Dec 30, 2003, when application 10/747,699, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 26, 2010)	Dec 30, 2023	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,672,439)	resolves to Dec 30, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Apr 12, 2023	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Apr 12, 2023	High confidence

This family

US 7,644,166	In force Dec 2026	Dec 2026
US 7,672,439	In force Dec 2028	Dec 2028
Application PCT/US2004/006334	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 7,693,944	In force Jul 2028	Jul 2028
US 8,565,397	Term ended Mar 2025	Mar 2025
US 7,924,996	this patent Apr 2023	Apr 2023
US 7,987,236	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023	Jul 2023
US 8,577,977	Term ended Dec 2023	Dec 2023

8 of 10 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
Feb 26, 2010 Reel 23996, frame 248	Appelman, Barry; Murphy, Stephen Vaughan	America Online, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 26, 2010 Reel 23996, frame 287	AOL LLC	AOL Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 26, 2010 Reel 23996, frame 544	America Online, Inc.	AOL LLC	Change of Name
Aug 2, 2013 Reel 30936, frame 11	AOL Inc.; AOL Advertising Inc.; Buysight, Inc.; Mapquest, Inc.; Pictela, Inc.	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	Security Agreement
Jul 1, 2015 Reel 36042, frame 53	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	AOL Advertising Inc.; AOL Inc.; Buysight, Inc.; Mapquest, Inc.; Pictela, Inc.	Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	AOL Advertising Inc.	Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	AOL Inc.	Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Buysight, Inc.	Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Mapquest, Inc.	Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Pictela, Inc.	Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Aug 24, 2017 Reel 43672, frame 369	AOL Inc.	Oath Inc.	Change of Name
Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54258, frame 635	Oath Inc.	Verizon Media Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 19, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 431	Verizon Media Inc.	Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,672,439, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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