Patent ID: 11888811
Assignee: IDENTITY DIGITAL INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 3:
4. A computing system, having at least one memory and at least one processor, for communicating using embedded DNS messages, the system comprising:
an interface configured to receive a DNS lookup request comprising at least a portion of an embedded message in a question portion of the DNS lookup request, the embedded message being distinct from a query domain of the DNS lookup request:
a DNS message receiver configured to determine a parsing algorithm corresponding to the embedded message from among multiple parsing algorithms using an identifier associated with the embedded message;
a DNS message parser configured to apply the parsing algorithm to the question portion of the DNS lookup request to extract at least the portion of the embedded message; and
wherein the embedded message comprises instructions specifying:
when a response should be sent; or that the response should be sent to another device upon receiving a request from the other device.