ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,599, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Anonymizing server-side addresses" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Pradeep Kumar Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.), Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Roquefort les Pins, France) and David A. Maluf (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using Network Address Translation (NAT), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to anonymize server-side addresses in data communications. Rather than having DNS provide a client device with an IP address of an endpoint de...