US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Sept. 9 for "Domain name system (DNS) security" (Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,554, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Domain name system (DNS) security" was invented by Dan Luther (Claremore, Okla.), Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.), John R. B. Woodworth (Amissvile, Va.), Carol Dawn Lovell (West Monroe, La.), James C. Anders (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Lisa Lamanna (Harrisonburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing improvement to domain name system ("DNS") security. In various embodiments, a computing system may receive a user datagram protocol ("UDP")-based DNS request, and may send a UDP-based response message, which may in...