US Patent 7853721 System and method for transmission of DNS beacons

Patent 7853721 was granted and assigned to Yahoo! on December, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Yahoo!

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7853721

Date of Patent

December 14, 2010

Patent Application Number

11595220

Date Filed

November 9, 2006

Patent Primary Examiner

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Wing F Chan

Patent abstract

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for transmitting a DNS beacon for storage. A method according to one embodiment comprises generating one or more data items for logging and transmitting a DNS request to an authoritative DNS server for a logging domain, with the host name of the DNS request comprising the one or more data items for logging. The DNS request, which comprises the data items for logging, is stored on a storage device.