US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Secure request authentication for a threat protection service" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,981, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Secure request authentication for a threat protection service" was invented by Brandon O. Williams (Revere, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client application sends DNS requests to a threat protection service when a mobile device operating the client application is operating off-network. The application is configured to detect network conditions and automatically configure an appropriate system-wide DNS resolution setting. Preferably, DNS requests from the client identify the customer and the device to threat protection (TP) service resolvers w...