US Patent Issued on July 29 for "Decoupling of IP address bindings and use in a distributed cloud computing network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,442, issued on July 29.

"Decoupling of IP address bindings and use in a distributed cloud computing network" was invented by Marwan Fayed (St Andrews, Great Britain), Pavel Odintsov (London) and Sami Matias Kerola (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authoritative domain name system (DNS) server receives a DNS query for an address record for a hostname. The DNS server selects an IP address from multiple IP addresses to include in an answer to the DNS query, where each IP address is capable of being selected to be included in the answer regardless of the hostname being queried, where multiple servers of a distributed cloud comput...