Patent ID: 11895274
Assignee: 8X8, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. The method of claim 1, further including:
providing a mapping service, wherein the mapping service is for at least one of the following:
mapping domain names to at least one of the virtual servers and related data communication services, as provided by the virtual servers, wherein the mapping service is based on one or more operating statuses of at least one of the virtual servers or the related data communication services for each account; and
for each account, mapping domain names associated with the account to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the set of virtual servers, according to a respective set of mapping criteria indicated in virtual server subscription settings associated with the respective account, wherein the mapping criteria is at least one from among: the at least one of the one or more operating statuses, a processing load of the set of virtual servers, geographical location of an end-user of the services; permissions of an end-user of the services; date or time of a domain name server (DNS) query; and data related to a type of virtual server associated with one or more of the domain names, and a number of servers associated with one or more of the domain names.