US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Oct. 14 for "Using a threat intelligence framework to populate a recursive DNS server cache" (Virginia, Colorado, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,469, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Using a threat intelligence framework to populate a recursive DNS server cache" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.), Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.), Dan Luther (Claremore, Okla.) and Mark Dehus (Thornton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application describes systems and methods for populating a DNS cache of a recursive DNS server using information gathered by a threat intelligence system. The threat intelligence system may collect some or all DNS responses from one or more recursive DNS servers as the one or more DNS servers ...