ROUTER-BASED DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM PROXY AGENT USING ADDRESS TRANSLATION

Patent №

US 6,480,508

Granted

2002-11-12

Filed 1999

Owner

WESTELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

2

ml · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09310188

A Domain Name System (DNS) proxy agent of the present invention performs a name query relaying function by redirecting DNS queries and responses to their final destination address, which is unknown to the node which originated the query or response. The real source and destination nodes are known only to the DNS proxy agent. This allows network address of an Internet-based name server to be changed without the requirement to reconfigure the DNS addressed on the LAN-based host.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Machine learning0.76
Knowledge representation0.04
Evolutionary computation0.03
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

WESTELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 101290846

NETGEAR, INC.

assignment · 262790358

NETGEAR HOLDINGS LIMITED, A LIMITED LIABILITY

assignment · 262790358

Assignors

MWIKALO, RAMA, RONK, JOHN, WHITTINGTON, JOHN, SAIZ, MANUEL RICARDO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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