US Patent Issued to VeriSign on May 27 for "Integrated DNS service provider services using certificate-based authentication" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,776, issued on May 27, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Integrated DNS service provider services using certificate-based authentication" was invented by Burton S. Kaliski Jr. (McLean, Va.), Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.) and Karthik Shyamsunder (Winchester, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for allowing third-party DNS service providers to programmatically initiate changes to DNS resource records using an interface provided by a registrar or registry are disclosed. Further, techniques for validating change requests received at such an interface are disclosed. The disclosed techniques reduce errors and increase...