Term ended Feb 10, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 10, 2026
Held by Cloud Byte LLC.
Filed Apr 3, 2015 as application 14/678,604 · Granted Feb 9, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Feb 10, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2006
Feb 10, 2006
Term ended
Feb 10, 2026
Feb 10, 2026
Granted
Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016
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 8,676,958, US 9,032,064, to Feb 10, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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.
24
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
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 10, 2006, when application 11/351,947, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 3, 2015) | Feb 10, 2026 | 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 8,676,958, US 9,032,064) | resolves to Feb 10, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 10, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,676,958 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 8,656,226 | In force (reinstated) Apr 2032 | Apr 2032 |
| US 8,782,339 | In force (reinstated) Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 9,430,309 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 9,032,064 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 9,032,149 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 9,258,184 | this patent Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 9,250,807 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2020 Reel 53357, frame 53 | Hendon, Samuel; Freeser, Colin | Southern Company Services, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 30, 2020 Reel 53358, frame 644 | Southern Company Services, Inc. | Open Invention Network LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2023 Reel 62800, frame 854 | NEC Corporation of America | NEC Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2023 Reel 62800, frame 890 | Open Invention Network LLC | NEC Corporation of America | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 17, 2023 Reel 63349, frame 459 | NEC Corporation | NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2024 Reel 66376, frame 276 | NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. | IP Wave Pte Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 27, 2024 Reel 67944, frame 332 | IP Wave Pte Ltd. | Cloud Byte LLC. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,676,958, US 9,032,064, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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
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