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Device-To-Device Communication Among Customer Premise Equipment Devices

US 9,954,731 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends no later than Nov 22, 2026 · Medium confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Filed Jul 1, 2013 as application 13/932,619 · Granted Apr 24, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2026
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2006
Ends no later than
Nov 22, 2026
Granted
Apr 24, 2018
base term 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.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
3
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 on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Nov 22, 2006, when application 11/603,422, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 1, 2013)Nov 22, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Nov 22, 2026Medium confidence

This family

US 7,839,870In force
Mar 2028
Mar 2028
US 8,493,987In force
May 2027
May 2027
US 9,954,731this patent
no later than Nov 2026
no later than Nov 2026
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
Nov 7, 2013
Reel 31559, frame 241
Siripunkaw, Pak; Weber, Emery J.Comcast Cable Holdings, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 7, 2015
Reel 37229, frame 550
Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC; Comcast Cable Communications, LLCComcast Cable Communications, LLCMerger and Change of Name

Sources

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

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