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Enhanced domain name service using a most frequently used domain names table and a validity code table

Patent 6016512 Issued on January 18, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject August 18, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

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Patent #: 5227778
Issued on: 07/13/1993
Inventor: Vacon, et al.

Name translation in communications networks
Patent #: 5434914
Issued on: 07/18/1995
Inventor: Fraser

Nameserver administration system and method
Patent #: 5664185
Issued on: 09/02/1997
Inventor: Landfield, et al.

TCP/IP host name resolution for machines on several domains
Patent #: 5777989
Issued on: 07/07/1998
Inventor: McGarvey

Address reporting device and method for detecting authorized and unauthorized addresses in a network environment
Patent #: 5815664
Issued on: 09/29/1998
Inventor: Asano

System and method for maintaining a shared cache look-up table Patent #: 5864854
Issued on: 01/26/1999
Inventor: Boyle

Inventor

Assignee

Application

No. 135619 filed on 08/18/1998

US Classes:

709/245, COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER DATA ADDRESSING707/100, DATABASE SCHEMA OR DATA STRUCTURE709/203, Client/server709/227, COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER SESSION/CONNECTION ESTABLISHING709/249MULTIPLE NETWORK INTERCONNECTING

Examiners

Primary: Dinh, Dung C.
Assistant: Le, Quoc-Khanh

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

G06F 013/00
G06F 017/30
H04L 012/26
185.1
683

Abstract

A system prefetches most frequently used domain names and stores the domain name data at local cache servers. It generates validity codes to enable error checking for valid domain names at the local cache servers without accessing root servers. A cache server obtains, stores, and propagates updates or new DNS data to local cache servers at predetermined intervals. Users can obtain internet protocol addresses of domain names directly from local cache servers, thus eliminating processing delays over the Internet.

Other References

  • http://www.dns.be/rfc/rfc1035.html Feb. 13, 1996
  • http://www.cs.unc.edu/Courses/wwwc/public/ladd/search.html Feb. 14, 1995
  • http://www.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/faq.html Feb. 10, 1996
  • Knuth, The art of computer programming, Addison-Wesley Publishing Inc., Sub-chapter 6.4 1969/8
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