Term ends Sep 12, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 7, 2026
Held by Rakuten Group, Inc.
Filed Sep 7, 2006 as application 11/517,016 · Granted Jun 28, 2011
Base term plus 1101 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2029
Clock starts
Sep 7, 2006
Sep 7, 2006
Term ends
Sep 12, 2029
Sep 12, 2029
Granted
Jun 28, 2011
Jun 28, 2011
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,101
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.
12
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 1101 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Sep 7, 2006, when this application, 11/517,016, was filed | Sep 7, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1101 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 12, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 12, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,096,226 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| Application 11/452,851 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,572,123 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 9,038,108 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| Application 11/517,015 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,126,313 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 8,005,345 | In force Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 7,970,260 | this patent Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 2006 Reel 18675, frame 663 | Rachamadugu, Sreenivas | Verizon Business Network Services Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 26, 2006 Reel 18675, frame 684 | Moore, Richard | Mci Worldcom, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 26, 2006 Reel 18675, frame 695 | Worldcom, Inc. | Mci, Inc. | Merger |
| Dec 26, 2006 Reel 18675, frame 704 | Mci Worldcom, Inc. | Worldcom, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 26, 2006 Reel 18675, frame 714 | Mci, Inc. | Mci, LLC | Merger |
| Dec 26, 2006 Reel 18675, frame 775 | Haot, Max | Mci Worldcom Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 19, 2007 Reel 18781, frame 518 | Haot, Max | Verizon UK Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 21, 2007 Reel 19041, frame 105 | Mci, LLC | Verizon Business Global LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 22, 2014 Reel 32729, frame 760 | Verizon Business Network Services Inc. | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 22, 2014 Reel 32734, frame 502 | Verizon Business Global LLC | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 28, 2017 Reel 44626, frame 88 | Verizon Business Global LLC | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 032734 Frame: 0502. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jan 20, 2021 Reel 55321, frame 202 | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Rakuten, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 6, 2021 Reel 58314, frame 657 | Rakuten, Inc. | Rakuten Group, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 29, 2024 Reel 68066, frame 103 | Rakuten, Inc. | Rakuten Group, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent Numbers 10342096;10671117; 10716375; 10716376;10795407;10795408; and 10827591 Previously Recorded at Reel: 58314 Frame: 657. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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What's changing
Sep 2029
Term ends Sep 12, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1101 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
14
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.
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