Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 9, 2022 (Mufg Union Bank, N.A.).
Term ended no later than Oct 16, 2019 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 28, 2015
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Mar 27, 2023.
Held by J2 Cloud Services, LLC
Filed Oct 14, 2004 as application 10/963,586 · Granted Feb 22, 2011
Base term plus 1632 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Oct 16, 2019
1995
2026
Clock starts
Apr 28, 1995
Apr 28, 1995
Ended no later than
Oct 16, 2019
Oct 16, 2019
Granted
Feb 22, 2011
Feb 22, 2011
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
1,632
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.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
30
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 1632 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. 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 Apr 28, 1995, when application 08/431,716, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 14, 2004); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 28, 2015 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1632 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 16, 2019 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Mar 27, 2023, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Oct 16, 2019 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 6,564,321 | Term ended Jun 2015 | Jun 2015 |
| US 7,020,132 | Term ended no later than Jun 2018 | no later than Jun 2018 |
| US 6,857,074 | Term ended May 2015 | May 2015 |
| US 7,895,306 | this patent no later than Oct 2019 | no later than Oct 2019 |
| Application 90/007,539 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 7,769,001 | Term ended Jun 2018 | Jun 2018 |
| Application 90/007,953 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/609,019 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 30 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2009 Reel 23208, frame 72 | J2 Global Communications, Inc. | Acacia Patent Acquisition LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 13, 2009 Reel 23379, frame 544 | Acacia Patent Acquisition Corporation | Unified Messaging Solutions LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 20, 2009 Reel 23395, frame 41 | Acacia Patent Acquisition LLC | Unified Messaging Solutions LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 25, 2010 Reel 24434, frame 208 | Unified Messaging Solutions LLC. | Advanced Messaging Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 13, 2021 Reel 57937, frame 1 | Advanced Messaging Technologies, Inc. | J2 Cloud Services, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 9, 2022 Reel 59357, frame 3 | J2 Cloud Services, LLC | Mufg Union Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 9, 2025 Reel 71889, frame 496 | U.S. Bank National Association, as Successor to Mufg Union Bank, N.A. | Consensus Cloud Solutions, LLC F/K/A J2 Cloud Services, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 1632 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Oct 16, 2019. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
38
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.