US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on Oct. 7 for "Provisioning encrypted domain name service and secure value-added service with certificates at a customer premise equipment in a broadband satellite system" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,913, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Provisioning encrypted domain name service and secure value-added service with certificates at a customer premise equipment in a broadband satellite system" was invented by Chi-Jiun Su (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite communication system which supports encrypted DNS at the customer premise equipment terminal to provide the benefits of local DNS caching. Some implementations use Certificate Authority (CA)-signed Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates. Implementations may provide encrypted DNS service at the CPE, where t...