ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,601, issued on May 27, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Two tier DNS" was invented by Sreeram Iyer (Bengaluru, India), Murali Basavaiah (Los Altos, Calif.), Prasad Rao (Bengaluru, India), Shyam Prasad Anisetti (Bengaluru, India) and Naveen Dhillon (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a two-tier DNS (Domain Name System) service for processing DNS requests. In some embodiments, the two-tier DNS service deploys first and second tiers of service machines, with the second-tier having several groups of service machines each of which is configured to resolve DNS requests for a different s...