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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2004
Robert Thomas Halley, Redwood City, CA (US);
Robert Thomas Halley, Redwood City, CA (US);
Nominum, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention disclosure describes an extended DNS data having an extensible attribute as well as systems and methods that utilize this attribute. Typically, the extensible attribute includes both attribute data and metadata configured to indicate a type of the attribute data. By varying the metadata, different instances of the attribute data may include different data types. The attribute data is configured, for example, to characterize other fields in the extended DNS data and/or to enable new applications relating to DNS data. In various embodiments the extensible attribute within the extended DNS is accessed through an application programming interface (API). This API is configured to facilitate input and output of the extended DNS data and to allow an external application to identify and interchange those attribute data that the external application is configured to process.