Lapsed Apr 12, 2015 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 29, 2023
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Intel Corporation
Filed Jan 29, 2003 as application 10/354,439 · Granted Apr 12, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 2520 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 12, 2015
2003
2029
Clock starts
Jan 29, 2003
Jan 29, 2003
No longer in force
Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015
Granted
Apr 12, 2011
Apr 12, 2011
Term would have run to
Dec 23, 2029
Dec 23, 2029
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
2,520
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
111
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Dec 23, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 2520 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jan 29, 2003, when this application, 10/354,439, was filed | Jan 29, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2520 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 23, 2029 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 12, 2015 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 12, 2015 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,402,005 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 6,633,918 | Term ended no later than Oct 2018 | no later than Oct 2018 |
| US 7,349,976 | Term ended Feb 2016 | Feb 2016 |
| US 8,216,071 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2016 | Jul 2016 |
| US 6,671,807 | Term ended Oct 2018 | Oct 2018 |
| US 6,968,387 | Term ended May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 7,925,770 | this patent Apr 2015 | Apr 2015 |
| US 7,284,065 | Term ended Oct 2018 | Oct 2018 |
8 of 111 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2003 Reel 13911, frame 851 | Hamel, Alain; Ping, Haifeng | Realnetworks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 8, 2012 Reel 28752, frame 734 | Realnetworks, Inc. | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 2520 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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
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