US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for publishing and using images of DNS zone configurations" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,682, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for publishing and using images of DNS zone configurations" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for publishing and using images of domain name system (DNS) zone configurations are described. An image file containing a copy of some or all of the DNS records associated with a zone DNS server (e.g., a DNS server for a zone) may be stored in a repository. In response to detecting that the zone DNS server is unavailable, an image serve...