925 patents currently held

Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

1 more record may belong here and awaits a decision; it is not counted.

The next term ends in Nov 2026. from the record

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Nov 2026

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429

Patent families

When these terms end

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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

Data Object Store and Server for a Cloud Storage Environment, Including Data Deduplication and Data Management Across Multiple Cloud Storage Sites US 11,308,035

Cited by 130 later US patents, top 1% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data. Protection runs to 2030.

Ends Jul 2030 · High confidence Also notable

Systems and Methods for Using Metadata to Enhance Data Identification Operations US 7,801,864

Cited by 673 later US patents, top 1% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, and renewed at 3 of 3 maintenance windows. Protection runs to 2029.

Ends Jul 2029 · High confidence Also notable

Commissioning and Decommissioning Metadata Nodes in a Running Distributed Data Storage System US 11,647,075

Cited by 27 later US patents, top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data. Protection runs to 2041.

Ends Sep 2041 · High confidence

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.

4 fees due Nov 21 to 28, 2026 · next Nov 21
18 fees due Dec 2 to 27, 2026 · next Dec 2
15 fees due Jan 2 to 30, 2027 · next Jan 2
12 fees due Feb 1 to 22, 2027 · next Feb 1
5 fees due Mar 3 to 26, 2027 · next Mar 3
12 fees due Apr 8 to 30, 2027 · next Apr 8
15 fees due May 7 to 28, 2027 · next May 7
12 fees due Jun 1 to 30, 2027 · next Jun 1
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17 fees due Aug 2 to 27, 2027 · next Aug 2
21 fees due Sep 5 to 30, 2027 · next Sep 5
11 fees due Oct 2 to 30, 2027 · next Oct 2
4 fees due Nov 5 to 12, 2027 · next Nov 5

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Recent changes

15 of the patents on this record were granted since Aug 16, 2026
15 terms have ended since Aug 16, 2026

What they patent

The 5 largest of its 429 families, grouped by real patent family and labeled by the earliest filing in each. No technology classification is inferred from titles.

Management of Internet of Things Devices	8 in force	to Jul 2038
Information Management of Data Associated with Multiple Cloud Services	8 in force	to May 2033
Virtual Server Agent Load Balancing	7 in force	to Sep 2034
Enhancing File Indexing of Block-Level Backup Copies of Virtual Machines And/Or File Systems by Populating and Tracking a Cache Storage Area and a Backup Index	6 in force	to Jul 2041
Synchronization of Metadata in a Distributed Storage System	6 in force	to May 2038

Patents held now

Soonest term end first.

Patent	Title	Status	Expires	Confidence
US 7,831,622	Systems and Methods for Classifying and Transferring Information in a Storage Network In force Term ends Nov 28, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 28, 2026	High confidence
US 8,010,769	Systems and Methods for Classifying and Transferring Information in a Storage Network In force Term ends Nov 28, 2026 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 28, 2026	High confidence
US 9,098,542	Systems and Methods for Using Metadata to Enhance Data Identification Operations In force Term ends Nov 28, 2026 · Medium confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 28, 2026	Medium confidence
US 9,606,994	Systems and Methods for Using Metadata to Enhance Data Identification Operations In force Term ends Nov 28, 2026 · Medium confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 28, 2026	Medium confidence
US 10,198,451	Systems and Methods for Using Metadata to Enhance Data Identification Operations In force Term ends Nov 28, 2026 · Medium confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 28, 2026	Medium confidence
US 7,500,053	Method and System for Grouping Storage System Components In force Term ends Jan 22, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jan 22, 2027	High confidence
US 7,657,666	Systems and Methods of Media Management, Such as Management of Media to and from a Media Storage Library, Including Removable Media In force Ends no later than Mar 30, 2027 · Medium confidence	In force	Ends no later than Mar 30, 2027	Medium confidence
US 7,882,093	Managing Copies of Data In force Ends no later than Mar 30, 2027 · Low confidence	In force	Ends no later than Mar 30, 2027	Low confidence
US 8,880,466	System and Method for Storage Operation Access Security Grace period ended Ends no later than Mar 30, 2027 · Low confidence	Grace period ended	Ends no later than Mar 30, 2027	Low confidence
US 7,849,059	Data Classification Systems and Methods for Organizing a Metabase In force Term ends Apr 17, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Apr 17, 2027	High confidence

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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.

Fee due within 90 days marks a patent with a maintenance fee due within 90 days of the date this page was computed and not yet recorded paid, so it can end earlier than the bar shows. A fee left unpaid ends the patent at the close of the six month grace period that follows its due date, not on the due date itself. It is not a prediction that the fee will be missed.

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