US Patent Issued to DigiCert on Dec. 16 for "Resolving domain name system (DNS) requests via proxy mechanisms" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,861, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Resolving domain name system (DNS) requests via proxy mechanisms" was invented by Rodney Lance Joffe (Tempe, Ariz.) and David Link King (Cave Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for providing proxy mechanisms for DNS services, such as resolving DNS requests. In some embodiments, the systems and methods establish a Proxy DNS module at a DNS resolver of an internet service provider, and access, with the proxy DNS module, DNS queries destined for a public name server. The name server may be accessible by the DNS resolver...