US 11,916,766 B1
Synthetic resource records
Brent Anthony Piller Bryan, Mountain View, CA (US); Jonathan Mack, Seattle, WA (US); and Roberto Ramalho Fischer, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/412,911.
Application 17/412,911 is a continuation of application No. 16/812,579, filed on Mar. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,115,299, issued on Sep. 7, 2021.
Application 16/812,579 is a continuation of application No. 15/831,657, filed on Dec. 5, 2017, granted, now 10,594,575, issued on Mar. 17, 2020.
Application 15/831,657 is a continuation of application No. 14/585,744, filed on Dec. 30, 2014, granted, now 9,948,527, issued on Apr. 17, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/016,445, filed on Jun. 24, 2014.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 43/04 (2022.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01)
CPC H04L 43/04 (2013.01) [G06F 16/23 (2019.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a request for editing a synthetic resource record for a web application associated with an Internet domain, wherein the synthetic resource record comprises dependent resource records that correspond to a logical group of resource records or zone files associated with the web application and includes domain name system (DNS) information for the Internet domain or a subdomain;
receiving, from an authorized administrator, information specifying an update to a configuration of the web application for the Internet domain, the update including a change to a name or address;
automatically updating, with one or more processors, the logical group of resource records or zone files based on the received information, the automatically updating including updating mappings between names and addresses; and
sending the specified update to a DNS server.