ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,843, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Techniques for templated domain management" was invented by Adam Mielke (San Francisco), Donavan Fritz (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Phelps Williams (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a templated Domain Name System (DNS) nameserver respond to DNS to DNS requests, and a templated HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server respond to HTTP and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) requests. The templated DNS nameserver responds to a DNS request with a predefined response specifying an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated wi...