ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,870, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Domain name system for data discovery" was invented by Michael McBride (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yingzhen Qu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and James Neil Guichard (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method used by a domain name system (DNS) server is disclosed. The DNS server receives a DNS request containing a host name and a resource record specifying data. The DNS server resolves an internet protocol (IP) address based on the host name. The DNS server resolves a server address of a resource server containing the data specified in the ...