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Systems and Methods for Enhancing Electronic Communication Security

US 7,458,098 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 3, 2022 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Term ended May 1, 2023 · High confidence

Held by McAfee, LLC
Filed Mar 8, 2002 as application 10/094,211 · Granted Nov 25, 2008
Base term plus 844 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended May 1, 2023
2002 2026
Clock starts
Mar 8, 2002
Term ended
May 1, 2023
Granted
Nov 25, 2008
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
844
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,124,438.
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.
34
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 844 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 8, 2002, when this application, 10/094,211, was filedMar 8, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+844 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 29, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,124,438)capped to May 1, 2023High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 1, 2023High confidence

This family

US 6,941,467Term ended
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US 7,458,098this patent
May 2023
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US 7,124,438Term ended
May 2023
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US 7,096,498Term ended
May 2023
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Application 10/361,067Abandoned
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US 7,213,260Term ended
Jan 2023
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US 7,694,128In force
Jul 2027
Jul 2027
Application 11/142,943Abandoned
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8 of 34 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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
Mar 8, 2002
Reel 12699, frame 346
Judge, Paul; Rajan, GuruCiphertrust, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 14, 2006
Reel 18247, frame 359
Secure Computing Corporation; Ciphertrust, Inc.Citicorp USA, Inc. as Administrative AgentSecurity Agreement
Jan 18, 2007
Reel 18771, frame 221
Ciphertrust, Inc.Secure Computing CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 11, 2010
Reel 23915, frame 990
Secure Computing, LLCMcAfee, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 24, 2017
Reel 43665, frame 918
McAfee, Inc.McAfee, LLCChange of Name and Entity Conversion
Jan 12, 2018
Reel 45055, frame 786
McAfee, LLCJpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Security Interest
Jan 12, 2018
Reel 45056, frame 676
McAfee, LLCMorgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Security Interest
Oct 22, 2020
Reel 54206, frame 593
McAfee, LLCMorgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045056 Frame 0676. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Oct 22, 2020
Reel 55854, frame 47
McAfee, LLCJpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045055 Frame 786. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Oct 26, 2020
Reel 54238, frame 1
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentMcAfee, LLCRelease of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045055/0786
Mar 2, 2022
Reel 59354, frame 213
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral AgentMcAfee, LLCRelease of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045056/0676
Mar 3, 2022
Reel 59354, frame 335
McAfee, LLCJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Apr 11, 2022
Reel 59690, frame 187
Citicorp USA, Inc.Secure Computing CorporationCorrective Assignment to Correct the Property Numbers Previously Recorded at Reel: 021523 Frame: 0713. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Patent Security Agreement.
Jun 23, 2022
Reel 60792, frame 307
McAfee, LLCJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative AgentCorrective Assignment to Correct the the Patent Titles and Remove Duplicates in the Schedule Previously Recorded at Reel: 059354 Frame: 0335. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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