Patent ID: 11956205
Assignee: 8X8, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. An apparatus comprising:
a group of virtual servers to provide data-communication services on behalf of client entities which are associated with respective domain names and respective settings files for providing the data-communication services; and
a domain name server (DNS) to dynamically map the respective domain names to network addresses of the group of virtual servers according to mapping functions indicated in the respective settings files, each of the respective settings files including a certain mapping function associated with one or more specific users or a specific department being provided certain of the data-communication services;
processing circuitry, communicatively coupled to the group of virtual servers, to
determine at least one parameter from among a set of parameters relating to the group of virtual servers,
cause, in response to the determined at least one parameter, remapping of a domain name between a first virtual server and a second virtual server; and
monitor one or more virtual servers from among the group of virtual servers and provide the set of parameters of the monitored one or more virtual servers to the DNS.