ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,935, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Obfuscating server-side addresses" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Eric A Voit (Bethesda, Md.) and Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using Home Addresses, Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to obfuscate server-side addresses in data communications. Rather than having DNS provide a client device with an IP address of an endpoint device, such as a server, the DNS instead returns a Home Address that is mapped to t...