US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 21 for "Dynamic and transparent application program interface (API) endpoint host redirection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,283, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic and transparent application program interface (API) endpoint host redirection" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada) and Ted Hulick (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of application program interface (API) endpoint host redirection may include with an intelligent domain name system (DNS) engine (IDE) associated with a containerized service within a pod of a mesh network, snooping a DNS query from the containerized service, identifying within the DNS query, an API endpoint ...