Surrendered on reissue Jul 22, 2014 · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Surrendered on reissue Jul 22, 2014 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE45,040.

Held by Meta Platforms, Inc.

Filed Dec 21, 2004 as application 11/016,879 · Granted Nov 9, 2010

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 694 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Surrendered Jul 22, 2014

2004 2026

Clock starts
Dec 21, 2004

No longer in force
Jul 22, 2014

Granted
Nov 9, 2010

Term would have run to
Nov 15, 2026

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

694

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

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Maintenance fees paid

Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.

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 694 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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 Dec 21, 2004, when this application, 11/016,879, was filed	Dec 21, 2024	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+694 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 15, 2026	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	No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"	no change	Low confidence
Reissue	US RE45,040 issued Jul 22, 2014, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)	surrendered Jul 22, 2014	High confidence
Surrendered on reissue	The steps above, in order	Jul 22, 2014	Low confidence

This family

US 7,828,661	this patent Jul 2014	Jul 2014
US RE45,040	In force Nov 2026	Nov 2026

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
Mar 28, 2005 Reel 15963, frame 404	Fish, Edmund J.; Eichler, Allen J.; Herold, June R.	America Online, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 14, 2009 Reel 23649, frame 61	AOL Inc.; AOL Advertising Inc.; Bebo, Inc.; Icq LLC; Going, Inc.; Lightningcast LLC; Mapquest, Inc.; Netscape Communications Corporation; Quigo Technologies LLC; Sphere Source, Inc.; Tacoda LLC; Truveo, Inc.; Yedda, Inc.	Bank of American, N.A. as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement
Dec 31, 2009 Reel 23723, frame 585	America Online, Inc.	AOL LLC	Change of Name
Dec 31, 2009 Reel 23723, frame 645	AOL LLC	AOL Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 16, 2010 Reel 25323, frame 416	Bank Of America, N A	AOL Inc.; AOL Advertising Inc.; Going Inc.; Lightningcast LLC; Mapquest, Inc.; Netscape Communications Corporation; Quigo Technologies LLC; Sphere Source, Inc.; Tacoda LLC; Truveo, Inc.; Yedda, Inc.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	AOL Inc.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	AOL Advertising Inc.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Going Inc.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Lightningcast LLC	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Mapquest, Inc.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Netscape Communications Corporation	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Quigo Technologies LLC	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Sphere Source, Inc.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Tacoda LLC	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Truveo, Inc.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Nov 16, 2010 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N A	Yedda, Inc.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights
Jul 3, 2012 Reel 28487, frame 304	AOL Inc.	Facebook, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 20, 2021 Reel 58961, frame 436	Facebook, Inc.	Meta Platforms, Inc.	Change of Name

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Note

The 694 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

328

later US patents cite this one

That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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