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A distributed system to intelligently establish sessions between anonymous users over various networks

EP 1177666 B1 · Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)

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  • Filed May 10, 2000 and granted December 16, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 10, 2020.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by November 10, 2025.
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FiledMay 10, 2000
PublishedFebruary 6, 2002
GrantedDecember 16, 2009
Term endedMay 10, 2020
Application numberEP 00931819
Classification (CPC)H04L61/00 +2 more

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