ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,875, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).
"GTLD domain name registries RDAP architecture" was invented by Burton S. Kaliski Jr. (McLean, Va.), Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.), Scott Hollenbeck (Fairfax Station, Va.) and Andrew Fregly (Reston, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for providing Registration Data Access Protocol ("RDAP") responses. The method includes obtaining, at a RDAP client over a network, a RDAP query for RDAP data from a user; providing, by the RDAP client, the RDAP query and a cryptographic credential to a RDAP server, wherein the RDAP server communicates with one or mor...