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Method and System for Managing Network Communications

US 12,166,674 In force, term unresolved
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Term ends no later than Feb 16, 2037 · 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 Nov 6, 2020 as application 17/091,913 · Granted Dec 10, 2024
Base term plus 1070 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2037
Clock starts
Mar 14, 2014
Ends no later than
Feb 16, 2037
Granted
Dec 10, 2024
base term patent term adjustment 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
1,070
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
0 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
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 runs 1070 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 0 of 3 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 Mar 14, 2014, when application 14/211,928, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 6, 2020)Mar 14, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1070 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 16, 2037High 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 events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Feb 16, 2037Medium confidence

This family

US 9,584,633In force
Mar 2035
Mar 2035
US 10,270,693In force
Apr 2034
Apr 2034
US 10,862,800In force
Mar 2034
Mar 2034
US 12,166,674this patent
no later than Feb 2037
no later than Feb 2037
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
Dec 31, 2020
Reel 54784, frame 852
Day, John; Bunch, SteveTria Network Systems, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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