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Methods and Apparatus Facilitating Access to Storage Among Multiple Computers

US 9,165,157 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 30, 2022 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).

Term ended Sep 27, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Jan 14, 2013 as application 13/740,982 · Granted Oct 20, 2015
Base term plus 154 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Sep 27, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Apr 26, 2005
Term ended
Sep 27, 2025
Granted
Oct 20, 2015
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
154
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
7
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 154 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 26, 2005, when application 11/114,905, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 14, 2013)Apr 26, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+154 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 27, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 27, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,584,222Term ended
Nov 2026
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US 7,360,030Term ended
Dec 2025
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US 7,490,089In force
Jan 2027
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US 8,073,881Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2023
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US 8,364,726Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2025
Jan 2025
US 9,165,157this patent
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
Application 14/168,225Abandoned
not computed
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 8, 2015
Reel 35362, frame 665
Georgiev, Ivan I.Sanbolic, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 2, 2015
Reel 35760, frame 797
Sanbolic, LLCCitrix Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 2, 2015
Reel 35807, frame 17
Sanbolic, Inc.Sanbolic, LLCChange of Name
Sep 30, 2022
Reel 62079, frame 1
Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National AssociationSecurity Interest
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62112, frame 262
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62113, frame 1
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentSecond Lien Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62113, frame 470
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023
Reel 63339, frame 525
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentCitrix Systems, Inc.; Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023
Reel 63340, frame 164
Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentCitrix Systems, Inc.Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentCloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
May 24, 2024
Reel 67662, frame 568
Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Aug 15, 2025
Reel 72488, frame 172
Cloud Software Group, Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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