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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2017
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jeromy S. Statia, Duvall, WA (US);

Christopher J. Engdahl, Seattle, WA (US);

Lee Walker, Christiansburg, VA (US);

William Dixon, Munich, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/951 (2019.01); H04L 29/12066 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 63/00 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 61/6068 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A secure DNS query may be made by establishing a secure connection with a specific DNS server to determine an address for a hostname. A client device may have a database that may contain a record of a secure DNS server for one or more hostnames. When a DNS request contains one of the specified hostnames, an authenticated session may be created with the designated secure DNS server and a network address for the hostname is returned using the session. The authenticated session may authenticate a client device to the server as well as authenticate the server to the client. In some embodiments, the secure DNS server may accept connections from authenticated clients and may disregard connection requests from non authenticated clients.


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