Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network address and hostname mapping in policy service
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Application No.: US14428742Application Date: 2012-09-17
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Publication No.: US10530745B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Jeremy Erb
- Applicant: Netsweeper (Barbados) Inc.
- Applicant Address: BB St. Michael
- Assignee: Netsweeper (Barbados) Inc.
- Current Assignee: Netsweeper (Barbados) Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: BB St. Michael
- Agency: Gardner, Linn, Burkhart & Ondersma LLP
- International Application: PCT/CA2012/000823 WO 20120917
- International Announcement: WO2014/040160 WO 20140320
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L12/927 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
A policy service enforces network policy for clients and servers of a computer network. The servers are accessible to the clients by way of hostnames and network addresses. Hostnames are stored in association with network addresses and update information. The update information indicates a priority with which to update a particular network address of a particular host. Such updates can be made using forward domain name system (DNS) resolutions. A subset of the hosts is prioritized for update based on the update information. A predictive process can be used to define the prioritized subset of hosts. The network addresses of the prioritized subset of hosts can then be updated before other network addresses of other hosts are updated. The association of hostnames and network addresses can be converted into a routing table, which can be loaded onto a router of the network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150271132A1 NETWORK ADDRESS AND HOSTNAME MAPPING IN POLICY SERVICE Public/Granted day:2015-09-24
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