US Patent Issued to VeriSign on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for domain name system promotion and redemption" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,548, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for domain name system promotion and redemption" was invented by James Gould (Reston, Va.) and Karthik Shyamsunder (Winchester, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing domain name system ("DNS") eligibility is provided. The method includes obtaining, at an eligibility service comprising at least one electronic server computer communicatively coupled to a computer network, a request of an eligibility proof from a DNS client; validating, by the eligibility service, the request; providing, by the eligibility service, the eligibili...