US Patent Issued to Orange on Jan. 20 for "Method and device for obtaining an IP address" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,829, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for obtaining an IP address" was invented by Mohamed Boucadair (Chatillon, France) and Christian Jacquenet (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a client device to obtain an IP address in order to access a network resource via at least one IP network. The method includes: inserting, in a request for obtaining an IPv6 address in order to access the network resource intended for a DNS server, a piece of information representing an IP address type expected by the client device of the DNS server in response to the obt...