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AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorsThomas Steven Taylor, John Yakemovich, Alisson Friedrich, Tom Hansen, Kiruthika Selvamani
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Systems and methods are provided for resolving domain name services (DNS) queries for address information about hosts on a network. The queries are posited from remote users across a satellite or other remote link to a network, and are monitored as they pass through a central node logically present between the remote link and the network. A list of statistically significant hosts on the network is maintained and transmitted from the central node to the plurality of remote users across the remote link. By providing the remote nodes with a current list of popular hosts and associated address information, subsequent domain name services queries placed for the statistically significant hosts may be resolved without communicating across the remote link.
A method of resolving a plurality of domain name services queries posited from a plurality of remote users across a satellite link to a network, wherein each query requests address information about a host on the network, the method comprising the steps of:
A method of handling a domain name services query for address information about an identified host residing across a satellite link to a network, the method comprising the steps of:
A server configured to supply domain name services information about a plurality of hosts on a network to a plurality of remote users configured to access the network via a satellite link, the server comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.