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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2004
Theodore H Roberts, Iii, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kevin T Damour, Bellevue, WA (US);
Leszek Mazur, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lingan Satkunanathan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Scott a Manchester, Redmond, WA (US);
Theodore H Roberts, III, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kevin T Damour, Bellevue, WA (US);
Leszek Mazur, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lingan Satkunanathan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Scott A Manchester, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methodologies that facilitate hosting of a domain name and access of users to the Internet, by using a well defined protocol to interact with a plurality of Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) providers, via employing; a purchasing component and a status verifying component. Once a user has selected a domain name, the purchasing component can automatically query the provider(s) for terms of the service plan to host such domain name associated with dynamic IP addresses. The status verifying component can verify the IP address of the end user machine and supply it to the DDNS, to manage in-bound traffic to the user's domain name.