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System and Method for Routing Media

US 8,554,940 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 17, 2019 (Fast Pay Partners LLC).

Lapsed Oct 8, 2021 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 28, 2007 as application 11/680,407 · Granted Oct 8, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1622 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 8, 2021
2001 2026
Clock starts
Jan 19, 2001
No longer in force
Oct 8, 2021
Granted
Oct 8, 2013
Term would have run to
Jun 29, 2025
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
1,622
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
22
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 Jun 29, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 1622 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 19, 2001, when application 09/766,519, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 28, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jan 19, 2021High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+1622 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 29, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 8, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 8, 2021Medium confidence

This family

Application 09/766,519Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,054,949Term ended
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
US 7,191,244Term ended
no later than Aug 2022
no later than Aug 2022
US 9,349,138Term ended
Jul 2026
Jul 2026
US 8,015,307Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
US 7,689,706Term ended
Apr 2024
Apr 2024
Application 11/680,452Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,554,940this patent
Oct 2021
Oct 2021
8 of 22 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
May 18, 2007
Reel 19315, frame 829
Jennings, Charles Arthur; Bate, Donald HockmanStreamworks Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 14, 2009
Reel 22951, frame 217
Streamworks Technologies, Inc.Single Touch Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 2, 2012
Reel 29061, frame 739
Single Touch Systems, Inc.Single Touch Interactive, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 3, 2015
Reel 34880, frame 867
Sito Mobile, Ltd.; Single Touch Interactive, Inc.; Single Touch Interactive R&D IP, LLCFortress Credit Co. LLCSecurity Interest
Sep 19, 2016
Reel 39780, frame 633
Single Touch Interactive, Inc.Single Touch Interactive R&D IP, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 19, 2016
Reel 39780, frame 897
Single Touch Interactive R&D IP, Inc.Single Touch Interactive, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 19, 2016
Reel 39782, frame 232
Single Touch Interactive, Inc.Single Touch Interactive R&D IP, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 19, 2016
Reel 40073, frame 77
Single Touch Interactive R&D IP, LLCSito Mobile R&D IP, LLCChange of Name
Sep 19, 2017
Reel 43900, frame 300
Fortress Credit Co. LLCTar Sito Lendco LLCSecurity Interest
Mar 8, 2019
Reel 48547, frame 471
Tar Sito Lendco LLCSito Mobile Ltd.Security Interest
Mar 8, 2019
Reel 48547, frame 578
Sito Mobile Ltd.Tar Sito Lendco LLCRelease of Security Interest
Apr 17, 2019
Reel 49950, frame 537
Sito Mobile R&D IP, LLCFast Pay Partners LLCSecurity Interest
Jun 17, 2019
Reel 49483, frame 5
Tar Sito Lendco LLCSito Mobile Ltd.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Switch the Conveying Party and Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded on Reel 048547 Frame 0578. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest.
Oct 24, 2019
Reel 50849, frame 392
Fast Pay Partners LLCSito Mobile R&D IP, LLCSecurity Interest

Sources

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