Also listed on Southern Company Services, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 20, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 10, 2026
Held by Cloud Byte LLC.
Filed Feb 10, 2006 as application 11/351,947 · Granted Mar 18, 2014
Base term plus 1864 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2031
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2006
Feb 10, 2006
Term ends
Mar 20, 2031
Mar 20, 2031
Granted
Mar 18, 2014
Mar 18, 2014
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
1,864
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.
24
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 1864 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 Feb 10, 2006, when this application, 11/351,947, was filed | Feb 10, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1864 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 20, 2031 | 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 | Mar 20, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,676,958 | this patent Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 8,656,226 | In force (reinstated) Apr 2032 | Apr 2032 |
| US 8,782,339 | In force (reinstated) Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 9,430,309 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 9,032,064 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 9,032,149 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 9,258,184 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 9,250,807 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 2006 Reel 17566, frame 967 | Hendon, Samuel; Freeser, Colin | Southern Company Services, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 2, 2006 Reel 17732, frame 298 | Hendon, Samuel; Feeser, Colin | Southern Company Services, Inc. | Corrective Coversheet to Correct Second Inventor's Name Previously Recorded on Reel 017566, Frame 0967. |
| Feb 11, 2008 Reel 20488, frame 988 | Southern Company Services, Inc. | Open Invention Network LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 14, 2009 Reel 23371, frame 527 | Southern Company Services, Inc. | Open Invention Network, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 3, 2016 Reel 40554, frame 20 | Open Invention Network, LLC | Open Invention Network, LLC | Change of Address for Assignee |
| Feb 24, 2023 Reel 62800, frame 854 | NEC Corporation of America | NEC Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2023 Reel 62800, frame 890 | Open Invention Network LLC | NEC Corporation of America | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 17, 2023 Reel 63349, frame 459 | NEC Corporation | NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2024 Reel 66376, frame 276 | NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. | IP Wave Pte Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 27, 2024 Reel 67944, frame 332 | IP Wave Pte Ltd. | Cloud Byte LLC. | Assignment of Assignor's 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
Mar 2031
Term ends Mar 20, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1864 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 2014 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.