US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 18 for "LKG client cache for DNS resiliency" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,867, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"LKG client cache for DNS resiliency" was invented by Vinothkumar Prabhakaran (Bangalore, India), Srikanth Subramanian (Snohomish, Wash.), Kiran Kumar Venkata Purna Chenna Kesava Vemula (Hyderabad, India), Arpan Kumar Gupta (Bangalore, India), Aditya Sharma (Gujarat, India), Peter Alan Carlin (Seattle) and Ivan Dimitrov Pashov (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing a last known good (LKG) client-side cache for DNS resiliency are disclosed. A first DNS request is submitted to a DNS server. A first DNS ...