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Held patents by the year their term ends
notable patents
fee due within 90 days
all others
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
Notable: the highest-ranked patents in this portfolio by citations and family size. Fee due within 90 days: a maintenance fee is due within 90 days of when this page was computed and not yet paid.
Notable patents
Ranked by citations and family size, against patents of the same kind granted the same year. How we rank
Notable
Ends Oct 2034 · High confidence
Also notable
Ends Feb 2039 · High confidence
Also notable
Ends no later than Sep 2032 · Medium confidence
Presenting a Service-Monitoring Dashboard Using Key Performance Indicators Derived from Machine Data
US 9,286,413
Cited by 718 later US patents, top 1% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, and renewed at every maintenance window due so far. Protection runs to 2034.
Bucket Data Distribution for Exporting Data to Worker Nodes
US 11,580,107
Cited by 162 later US patents, top 1% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data. Protection runs to 2039.
Data Model for Machine Data for Semantic Search
US 8,788,525
Cited by 828 later US patents, top 1% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, and renewed at 3 of 3 maintenance windows. Protection runs to 2032. A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved, so no cap is applied and the date may move earlier, never later.
Fee deadlines
Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.
- 55 fees due Nov 19 to 30, 2026 · next Nov 19
- 292 fees due Dec 2 to 30, 2026 · next Dec 2
- 251 fees due Jan 2 to 30, 2027 · next Jan 2
- 314 fees due Feb 1 to 28, 2027 · next Feb 1
- 287 fees due Mar 1 to 29, 2027 · next Mar 1
- 353 fees due Apr 1 to 30, 2027 · next Apr 1
- 294 fees due May 3 to 28, 2027 · next May 3
- 294 fees due Jun 1 to 30, 2027 · next Jun 1
- 285 fees due Jul 2 to 30, 2027 · next Jul 2
- 335 fees due Aug 2 to 27, 2027 · next Aug 2
- 319 fees due Sep 1 to 30, 2027 · next Sep 1
- 235 fees due Oct 2 to 30, 2027 · next Oct 2
- 109 fees due Nov 3 to 12, 2027 · next Nov 3
Recent changes
- Nov 9Assignment recorded on 1 record: Henry, Jerome and 3 others to Cisco Technology, Inc. Recorded Nov 9, 2026, executed Aug 5, 2026. Conveyance as recorded: Assignment of Assignor's Interest. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership. Reel 76682, frame 708.
- Nov 9Assignment recorded on 1 record: Henry, Jerome and 2 others to Cisco Technology, Inc. Recorded Nov 9, 2026, executed Aug 10, 2026. Conveyance as recorded: Assignment of Assignor's Interest. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership. Reel 76686, frame 4.
- 307 of the patents on this record were granted since Aug 16, 2026
- 131 terms have ended since Aug 16, 2026
What they patent
The 5 largest of its 11,600 families, grouped by real patent family and labeled by the earliest filing in each. No technology classification is inferred from titles.
| High Availability Scheduler | 95 in force | to Apr 2039 |
| Data Fabric Service System Architecture | 82 in force | to Aug 2042 |
| Flexible Schema Column Store | 62 in force | to Jan 2035 |
| Determining performance states of components in a virtual machine environment based on performance states of related subcomponents | 44 in force | to May 2033 |
| Time Series Search Engine | 26 in force | to Jun 2029 |
Patents held now
Soonest term end first.
| Patent | Title | Status | Expires | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US 7,478,183 | Method and System for N Dimension Arbitration Algorithm - Scalable to Any Number of End Points In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,668,174 | Methods and Apparatus for Home Address Management at Home Agent for Nai Based Mobile Nodes In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 8,131,870 | Method and Apparatus for Registering a Mobile Object on a Foreign Network In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,335,033 | Coupling a Small Form Factor Transceiver to a Circuit Board Module Using a Form Factor Converter In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,453,900 | System and Method for Monitoring Noise Associated with a Communication Link In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,440,430 | Jitter Buffer Management for Mobile Communication Handoffs In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,697,416 | Constructing a Repair Path in the Event of Non-Availability of a Routing Domain In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,701,845 | Forwarding Data in a Data Communications Network In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,885,179 | Method and Apparatus for Constructing a Repair Path Around a Non-Available Component in a Data Communications Network In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence | |
| US 7,933,197 | Method and Apparatus for Constructing a Repair Path Around a Non-Available Component in a Data Communications Network In force · High confidence | In force | High confidence |
Also on record, not counted in the 15,725: 323 patents in force now held by others · 6,176 patents ended · 1,953 applications pending · 1,946 applications abandoned. List them
Sources and methods
Compiled from USPTO application file histories, grants and recorded assignments, with the company's own names reviewed by hand. How this record was built
Portfolio grouped automatically from ownership conveyances to the names matched to this company, usually every name that begins with its own, so it counts patents an affiliate holds; each list row names the holder of record. Security interests are excluded and ambiguous records are not reviewed by hand.
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Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.