US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Feb. 11 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for improved domain name resolution" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,977, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for improved domain name resolution" was invented by Yiu Leung Lee (Philadelphia), Charles A. Helfinstine (Philadelphia) and Thomas Modayil Jacob (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for improved domain name resolution/routing. Routing data associated with domain names (e.g., websites) may be cached by a Domain Name System (DNS) based on historical domain name queries. The historical domain name queries may be analyzed to determine a ranking (e.g., popularity) for...