Patent ID: 8244885

Claim:
A method, with an information processing system, for determining a domain name associated with at least one wireless device for providing services to the at least one wireless device in a network, the method comprising: receiving a service request that includes a unique identifier associated with the at least one wireless device; issuing a query of a remote domain name system (DNS) with the unique identifier for retrieving a plurality of ranges of wireless device identifiers ranges from the DNS, wherein each range of wireless device identifiers of the plurality of ranges of wireless device identifiers comprises a plurality of wireless device identifiers and is associated with a different domain name, of a plurality of domain names, than the other ranges of the plurality of ranges; identifying, among the plurality of ranges of wireless device identifiers, a range of wireless device identifiers comprising at least the unique identifier associated with the at least one device; determining a domain name associated with the identified range of wireless device identifiers; associating the domain name that has been determined with the at least one device; wherein the plurality of ranges of wireless device identifiers are maintained as DNS text (TXT) records; and wherein each DNS TXT record comprises a range of wireless device identifiers and an associated domain name.