H04L 61/4511
Using domain name system [dns]
Official title: using domain name system [DNS]
H04L61/4511 (Using domain name system [dns]) appears on 6,156 US grants and 6,733 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 6,156
- Published applications
- 6,733
- Assignees
- 1,335
- Inventors
- 9,492
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 41 | 81 |
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| 2007 | 68 | 144 |
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| 2013 | 251 | 293 |
| 2014 | 254 | 323 |
| 2015 | 291 | 305 |
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| 2017 | 386 | 423 |
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| 2019 | 465 | 410 |
| 2020 | 516 | 452 |
| 2021 | 498 | 483 |
| 2022 | 456 | 413 |
| 2023 | 463 | 396 |
| 2024 | 438 | 374 |
| 2025 | 353 | 302 |
| 2026 | 201 | 171 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Recency-weighted discovery and temporal analysis of domain name server records for generating lead signals6 Oct 2026US 12,756,637 B1Intuit Inc.
- Systems and methods for publishing and using images of DNS zone configurations6 Oct 2026US 12,756,682 B2CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Resolving blockchain domains6 Oct 2026US 12,756,683 B2Unstoppable Domains Inc.
- Applying natural language processing anomaly measures as features for DNS tunneling detection6 Oct 2026US 12,756,729 B2Infoblox Inc.
- Systems and methods for preserving privacy of a registrant in a domain name system (“DNS”)29 Sep 2026US 12,750,243 B2VeriSign, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for communication between application client (ac) and edge enabler client (eec) in a wireless communication system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313017 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Relay device, relay method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313047 A1NTT, Inc.
- Systems and methods for failover and recovery of distributed internet services1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303443 A18x8, Inc.
- Domain name system filtering at edge network device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303563 A1Sophos Limited
- System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303681 A1Bright Data Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of accessing a target entity over a communications network1,177US 6,131,095 AHewlett-Packard Company · 2000
- Global hosting system1,155US 6,108,703 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000
- Content delivery network (CDN) content server request handling mechanism with metadata framework support987US 7,240,100 B1Akamai Technologies, Inc. · 2007
- Optimized network resource location880US 6,185,598 B2Digital Island, Inc. · 2001
- Differentiated content and application delivery via internet824US 6,976,090 B2Actona Technologies Ltd. · 2005