Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 3, 2025 (Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Successor Agent).
Term ended May 17, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 17, 2022
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jun 5, 2023.
Filed Feb 10, 2014 as application 14/176,212 · Granted Apr 28, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended May 17, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
May 17, 2002
May 17, 2002
Term ended
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
Granted
Apr 28, 2015
Apr 28, 2015
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 8,687,795, to May 17, 2022. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
8
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 is 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
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts May 17, 2002, when application 10/146,894, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 10, 2014) | May 17, 2022 | 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 8,687,795) | resolves to May 17, 2022, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jun 5, 2023, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 17, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/291,325 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,103,562 | Term ended Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 8,046,254 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,687,795 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| Application 13/244,075 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,359,222 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
| Application 13/746,079 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,020,142 | this patent May 2022 | May 2022 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2016 Reel 40815, frame 1 | Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., as Grantor; Echopass Corporation; Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc.; Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Dec 7, 2016 Reel 40585, frame 928 | Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, Inc. | Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jul 1, 2018 Reel 46463, frame 839 | Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc. | Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. | Merger |
| Feb 3, 2025 Reel 70498, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Resigning Agent | Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Successor Agent | Notice of Succession of Security Interests at Reel/Frame 040815/0001 |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,687,795, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
27
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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