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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Robert Sayko, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Kannu Beri, Colonia, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method for filtering, distributing, and organizing domain name system queries in a communications network may include receiving a first domain name system query from a first endpoint device connected to the network, identifying a first network address of the first endpoint device from the first domain name system query, classifying the first domain name system query into a first class of a plurality of classes, wherein each class of the plurality of classes is associated with one predefined numerical range of a plurality of predefined numerical ranges, and wherein a target address unit of the first network address falls into the predefined numerical range associated with the first class, and forwarding the first domain name system query to a first collection server of a plurality of collection servers, wherein the first collection server is dedicated for collecting domain name system queries that are classified into the first class.