US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods implementing name resolution and virtual addresses to enable network connections" (Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,193, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods implementing name resolution and virtual addresses to enable network connections" was invented by Christopher Joseph O'Connell (Tuscon, Ariz.), Barna Csukas (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania) and Gabor Miklos (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for performing methods which include receiving by a VPN server, from a VPN client operating on a computing device, over a VPN connection a first message including a first IP address. The VPN server determines a hostname based on the first IP address, resolves the hostname to a secon...