System for Providing Multi-Phased, Multi-Modal Access to Content Through Voice and Data Devices

US 8,000,320 Lapsed on the fee record

Lapsed Aug 16, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 22, 2007 as application 11/709,025 · Granted Aug 16, 2011

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1211 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

Lapsed Aug 16, 2019

2002 2026

Clock starts
Feb 8, 2002

No longer in force
Aug 16, 2019

Granted
Aug 16, 2011

Term would have run to
Aug 19, 2022

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

1,211

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 7,200,142.

1 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 Feb 8, 2002, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Feb 22, 2007)	Feb 8, 2022	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+1211 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jun 3, 2025	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,200,142)	capped to Aug 19, 2022	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Aug 16, 2019	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Aug 16, 2019	High confidence

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

System for Providing Multi-Phased, Multi-Modal Access to Content Through Voice and Data Devices

Lapsed Aug 16, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

20-year base term ended Feb 8, 2022

How we calculated this date

Sources