US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for node selection using location information in a domain name system request message" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,492, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for node selection using location information in a domain name system request message" was invented by Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, Texas), David Taft (Keller, Texas), Maqbool Chauhan (Keller, Texas), Klay Goodchild (Corinth, Texas) and Edward G Leyton (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a domain name system (DNS) server may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a DNS request message that indicates location information. The DNS server may select a node for the UE based on the location i...