Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 3, 2025 (Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Successor Agent).
Term ended Jul 20, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 17, 2022
Filed May 17, 2002 as application 10/146,894 · Granted Sep 5, 2006
Base term plus 64 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 20, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
May 17, 2002
May 17, 2002
Term ended
Jul 20, 2022
Jul 20, 2022
Granted
Sep 5, 2006
Sep 5, 2006
base term
patent term adjustment
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
64
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
8
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 64 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 May 17, 2002, when this application, 10/146,894, was filed | May 17, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +64 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 20, 2022 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 20, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/291,325 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,103,562 | this patent Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 8,046,254 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,687,795 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| Application 13/244,075 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,359,222 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
| Application 13/746,079 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,020,142 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2002 Reel 13174, frame 311 | Kosiba, Eric D.; Newhard, Douglas G.; Papadopoulos, Neofytos C. | Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 5, 2016 Reel 40815, frame 1 | Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., as Grantor; Echopass Corporation; Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc.; Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Dec 7, 2016 Reel 40585, frame 928 | Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, Inc. | Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jul 1, 2018 Reel 46463, frame 839 | Interactive Intelligence Group, Inc. | Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. | Merger |
| Feb 3, 2025 Reel 70498, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Resigning Agent | Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Successor Agent | Notice of Succession of Security Interests at Reel/Frame 040815/0001 |
Sources
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Note
The 64 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
364
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2006 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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