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System and Method for Providing a Callback Cloud

US 8,938,221 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Virtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Oct 17, 2029 · High confidence

Filed Oct 24, 2012 as application 13/659,902 · Granted Jan 20, 2015
Base term plus 262 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2009 2029
Clock starts
Jan 28, 2009
Term ends
Oct 17, 2029
Granted
Jan 20, 2015
base term patent term adjustment 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
262
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
116
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 262 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Jan 28, 2009, when application 12/320,517, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 24, 2012)Jan 28, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+262 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 17, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 17, 2029High confidence

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US 9,055,149In force
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8 of 116 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
Dec 9, 2014
Reel 34443, frame 961
Brazier, Robert; Camulli, EricVirtual Hold TechnologyAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 18, 2018
Reel 46573, frame 203
Virtual Hold Technology, LLCVirtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 30, 2018
Reel 46500, frame 207
Virtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLCPnc Bank, National AssociationSecurity Interest
Dec 21, 2021
Reel 58562, frame 624
Virtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLC; Callpromise LLCMonroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC, as Administrative AgentSecurity Interest
Jan 25, 2022
Reel 58765, frame 233
Pnc Bank, National AssociationVirtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLC; Callpromise LLCRelease of Security Interest
Jan 25, 2022
reel/frame not recorded
Pnc Bank, National AssociationVirtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLCRelease of Security Interest
Jan 25, 2022
reel/frame not recorded
Pnc Bank, National AssociationCallpromise LLCRelease of Security Interest
Aug 16, 2022
Reel 61201, frame 768
Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLCVirtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLC; Callpromise LLCRelease of Security Interest
Aug 16, 2022
reel/frame not recorded
Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLCVirtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLCRelease of Security Interest
Aug 16, 2022
reel/frame not recorded
Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLCCallpromise LLCRelease of Security Interest
Oct 31, 2022
Reel 61808, frame 358
Virtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLCWilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral AgentSupplement No. 1 to Grant of Security Interest in Patent Rights
May 8, 2026
Reel 75825, frame 361
Virtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLCMedallia, Inc.Merger

Sources

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