Patents by Inventor Alan Brian Mimms

Alan Brian Mimms has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods of collaborative hardware and software DNS acceleration and DDOS protection
    Patent number: 10530758
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards managing name service communications. A name service device may be arranged to employ a hardware domain name service (DNS) processor to receive a name service query. The hardware DNS processor may perform operations on the name service query. If operations performed by the hardware DNS processor do not resolve the name service query, further operations may be performed. The name service device may be arranged to provide a name service reply that includes the answer to the name service query. And, the name service device may be arranged to send the name service reply back to the hardware DNS processor. Accordingly, the hardware DNS processor on the name service device may send the name service reply that includes at least an answer to the name service query to the requesting computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: F5 Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Cai, Paul Imre Szabo, Christopher Ryan Baker, Lisa M. Golden, Robert Andrew Kovalchik, Amit Fridman, Alan Brian Mimms, Itai Druckmann
  • METHODS OF COLLABORATIVE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DNS ACCELERATION AND DDOS PROTECTION
    Publication number: 20170214677
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards managing name service communications. A name service device may be arranged to employ a hardware domain name service (DNS) processor to receive a name service query. The hardware DNS processor may perform operations on the name service query. If operations performed by the hardware DNS processor do not resolve the name service query, further operations may be performed. The name service device may be arranged to provide a name service reply that includes the answer to the name service query. And, the name service device may be arranged to send the name service reply back to the hardware DNS processor. Accordingly, the hardware DNS processor on the name service device may send the name service reply that includes at least an answer to the name service query to the requesting computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Hao Cai, Paul Imre Szabo, Christopher Ryan Baker, Lisa M. Golden, Robert Andrew Kovalchik, Amit Fridman, Alan Brian Mimms, Itai Druckmann