ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,777, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kigen (UK) Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Network polling" was invented by Jerry Chun-Pai Jun (Safety Harbor, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polling apparatus comprises message issuing circuitry configured to issue at least one polling message over a network to a polled device. Polling filtering circuitry is responsive to a polling trigger requesting that the message issuing circuitry issues a given polling message to determine whether an active domain name system (DNS) server belongs to a set of one or more polling permitted DNS servers. In response to determining that the active DNS...