US Patent Issued to VeriSign on July 29 for "Externally applying internal network domain name system (DNS) policies" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,441, issued on July 29, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Externally applying internal network domain name system (DNS) policies" was invented by Michael Kaczmarek (Great Falls, Va.) and Eric Osterweil (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a global domain name system (DNS) server processes a DNS query based on an internal network policy. Upon receiving a DNS query that is associated with a source IP address, the global DNS server identifies a client subnet based on the DNS query. The client subnet is associated with an internal device on an internal network. The global DNS server selects an inter...