ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,532, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Open Text Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for DNS smart access" was invented by Jonathan Alexander Thorold Barnett (Lafayette, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for DNS smart access are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a local cache of trusted addresses resolved by a trusted DNS resolver. A DNS smart access agent monitors outbound communications from applications or processes on a client device. The DNS smart access agent blocks access to addresses that were not resolved through the trusted DNS resolver."
The pat...