ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,828, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).
"Balancing visibility in the domain name system" was invented by Burton S. Kaliski Jr. (McLean, Va.) and Shumon Huque (Reston, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for out-of-band communications in the domain name system (DNS) are disclosed. Embodiments include a system for negotiating DNS services in the DNS. The system includes an in-band communication channel connecting a first party and a second party, and one or more out-of-band communication channels connecting the first party and the second party. The first party performs messaging for the D...