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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2021
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Charles Helfinstine, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Yiu Lee, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Thomas Modayil Jacob, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
An identifier, for example, an identifier of a domain and/or a host of the domain (e.g., a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), etc.), such as a service management device (e.g., a server, a web server, a computing device, a web host device, a webpage, etc.), may be modified (e.g., hashed, encrypted, etc.) by a network device (e.g., a server, a domain name system (DNS) server, a DNS over hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) server/gateway (DoH server), DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS) server/gateway (DoT server), a network management device, a computing device, etc.), sent to a user device (e.g., a client device, a smart device, a mobile device, a content output device, a computing device, a web browser, a search engine, etc.), and reused by the user device to request a service (e.g., a web service, a webpage, a file, content, a content item, etc.).