WO2003094009A1 - Usage multiple de noms identiques pour identifier des adresses numeriques ip differentes - Google Patents

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WO2003094009A1
WO2003094009A1 PCT/US2002/014131 US0214131W WO03094009A1 WO 2003094009 A1 WO2003094009 A1 WO 2003094009A1 US 0214131 W US0214131 W US 0214131W WO 03094009 A1 WO03094009 A1 WO 03094009A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04L61/4511—Network directories; Name-to-address mapping using standardised directories; using standardised directory access protocols using domain name system [DNS]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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    • H04L61/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
    • H04L61/45—Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
    • H04L61/4552—Lookup mechanisms between a plurality of directories; Synchronisation of directories, e.g. metadirectories

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  • the present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for obtaining access to a numerical IP address.
  • the TCP IP protocols include the specifications that identify individual computers and exchange data between computers.
  • the Internet and its applications use an addressing system called the Domain Name System.
  • This system translates an alphanumeric string such as "jones.com” into a numeric string, the IP address, which is the actual address to a network resource. While it is possible to address a resource directly with a combination of protocol type and address, the Domain Name System was devised to provide an intuitive addressing scheme.
  • the ".com” level is called the Top Level Domain or TLD.
  • the name before the TLD, in this case "jones”, in the example would represent a Second Level Domain or SLD.
  • domain name is generally understood to be the combination of a TLD and a SLD.
  • Internet activity can be defined as computers communicating with other computers using TCP IP.
  • the computer that originates a transaction must identify its intended destination with a unique address.
  • Every computer on the Internet has a four-part numeric address, called the Internet Protocol address or IP address, which contains routing information that identifies its location.
  • IP address contains routing information that identifies its location.
  • Each of the four parts is a number between 0 and 255, so an IP address looks like this: 128.243.117.214
  • IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6
  • OSS Domain Name System
  • the Domain Name System is composed of a number of Top Level Domains. Fully qualified NS names generally have an individual host nanie, followed by a top level domain name for a computer connected to the Internet that gener lly identifies the type of institution that uses the address, such as .com for commercial businesses or .edu for schools, polleges and universities. The University of Washington's DNS domain name is washington.edu, Microsoft's is microsofi.com.
  • Top Level Domains can also identify the country in which the system is located, such as .ca for Canada or fr for France. Sometimes, a geographic domain name will also include a sub-domain that identifies the district within the larger domain. For example, va.us ⁇ an indicate an Internet domain in Virginia and there is a commercial Internet service provider in the Canadian province of British Columbia called Mindlink. Its DNS domain name is mindlmk.bc.ca.
  • Tlje basic model for Internet tools is used for many functions: a client application on a user's computer requests information through the network from a domain name server, a powerful computer, containing a large memory, which acts as a shared storage resource. For example a user sends a domain name to the server, and the server returns the IP address, the four part numeric address, which is then used to contact the computer having that particular IP address.
  • the domain name system for TLD's has been handed over (by the US Government) to ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - which has recently approved the addition of several new Top Level Domains (TLD's).
  • each TLD or national domain there may be no more than one second level domain combined with the TLD such as 'jones.com' or 'jones.net' and allocation of these names normally has been on a first come, first served basis. People and companies have been allowed to register any name and any number of names, including generic descriptions, as long as these names have not already been claimed (registered) by someone else. Many violations of trademark and other property rights have been claimed. Registered names have been given Intellectual Property Right status, giving the owner exclusive, international rights to use that name as an identity in the Internet. The .com. .name, and national domains are the ones potentially most impacted by the need for 'exclusivity'.
  • Apple which may be the music publishing company founded by the Beatles, or the computer company founded by Steve Jobs, or maybe some organic produce company. Only one can identify itself as "apple.com”. There are at least 3 companies named Amazon in New York City. There are approximately 100 companies in California named “Great Wall”. Only one company on the Internet can identify itself as “plumber.com”, giving that company exclusive international rights to identify itself with the generic term.
  • each domain name (individual name plus top level domain) is unique, and duplicates are not allowed.
  • Various companies have the same name but deal in different types of goods, but only the first company that registers on a top level domain is allowed to use that name, giving that particular company a monopoly on a name.
  • the same is true with Trademarked goods.
  • the same Trademark is used by different companies on different types of goods, but only the first company to register the name on a domain is allowed to use the Trademark as a domain name. This makes finding a company by its name or the name of the product that it produces or the service that it provides difficult using domain names.
  • a universal electronic delivery system allows a user to locate information on a distributed computer system or network such as the Internet by knowing or guessing a short mnemonic alias of an electronic resource without the user having to know the physical or other location denotation such as the universal resource locator (URL) of the desired resource.
  • the system hardware includes a client computer, a local server, a central registry server, a value added server, and a root server.
  • the universal electronic resource denotation, request and delivery system supports a personal aliasing (nicknaming) feature, a universal resource accessing feature for finding location information such as URL's relating to a query term, a "see also" feature for including information about related documents or resources within the record of a resource, a feature for updating local servers and client machines by periodically deleting those records which have changed, a "try again” and “mirroring” feature for aiding a user in obtaining the resource under adverse hardware or software conditions, and an authentication and administration feature that allows a user to administer the aliases and related data which pertain to his/her resources.”
  • nicknaming a personal aliasing
  • a universal resource accessing feature for finding location information such as URL's relating to a query term
  • a "see also” feature for including information about related documents or resources within the record of a resource
  • a feature for updating local servers and client machines by periodically deleting those records which have changed a “try again” and “mirroring” feature for aiding a
  • the client system 603 provides the user with the choice of whether to prefer the Local or the Wide Area or Global (Internet) interpretations of Resource Aliases.
  • This Reference guides the local server 604 to search for a Resource alias or character string purported to be a Resource Alias first in its Local Registry 606 or first in the Global System 605. If the preferred choice fails to match a Resource Alias, the secondary system (for that particular user) search is activated.
  • each client request is accompanied by system preference data.
  • the Client User interface in displaying lists of Resource Aliases or individual Resource Aliases and their associated Records, also displays whether that particular Resource Alias and Record are Local or Global (Wide Area or Internet).
  • the local Server 604 is advantageously linked with the Central Registry or Root Server and Value Added Services, 607 of the Wide Area System.”
  • INternet ONE of the British Indian Ocean Territory has a practice, which is even more monopolistic against residents of the territory than the other national Internet organizations.
  • residents are forced to register as "name”.com.io, a third level domain.
  • Other registrants are allowed to register domain names on a first come, first registered basis, with a directory of non .io domain names replacing the first registration for duplicate names.
  • the directory for non .io names contains the domain name and the non .io IP address of each registrant in the directory.
  • the registration of duplicate names is restricted. For example "Spicegirls.io" is limited to one registration.
  • U.S. Patent 5,410,691 Taylor (1995) may be of interest in its organization of a network database.
  • the Patent discloses at the abstract, "The network database is arranged in a plurality of domains in a logical hierarchy. Each domain of the hierarchy represents a body of information associated with a logically related group of users or related group of computers. A relative naming scheme is implemented in which a domain stores the names of only its parent domain and child domains. This permits reconfiguration of the network to be accomplished without changing the database structure.
  • Each domain stores information in a hierarchical structure known as a "directory"
  • Each directory consists of a list of zero or more "properties,” each having an associated name and ordered list of values.”
  • a computer-implemented method and apparatus for identifying and locating computer network services gives an application the ability to search for network services in a manner independent of the network communication protocol used by the network.
  • the invention can thus operate as a layer of abstraction between the Transport and Network Layers and the Application Layer of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) Reference Model of network architecture and suite of protocols.
  • the invention gives the client application the ability to browse for network services based on the type of service (such as remote file access, mail, Web, domain name registration, etc.), rather than having to know the name or location of the service or the underlying network communication protocol used by the service.
  • Some of the contemplated service name identification protocols used to find the requested types of services include Internet-related protocols such as Domain Name Service (DNS) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), as well as Service Location Protocol (SLP), running on top of the Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TCP/IP).
  • DNS Domain Name Service
  • LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  • SLP Service Location Protocol
  • the present invention is directed to an improvement in a national or other top level Internet registry system for example .com, .net, .org, .name etc which allows nationals to register a domain name resulting in a plurality of registered domain names.
  • the improvement comprises a directory associated with each of a plurality of domain names in the DNS, the associated directory containing a collection of names and information concerning owners of names identical, similar to or related to the domain name.
  • the associated directory can be a directory, and/or a sub-directory, and/or a sub-sub-directory and even broken down into further subs.
  • the numeric IP address is preferably a numeric IP address of an associated directory separate from the numeric IP address of the domain name.
  • the information in the numeric IP address of each associated directory includes the unique numeric Internet (IP) address if available of each of one or more owners and information concerning each of the owners of identical and similar names listed in each directory.
  • IP Internet
  • the owner of a name is meant an entity having a legal right to use a particular name such as a family name, a business name, a trademark, a service mark or any legalized right to use a particular name.
  • the numeric IP addresses of the listings in the associated directory are "associated IP addresses of associated domain names". Under this plan, if only one "Jones.com" is registered in the Internet, the domain name system would work as it does now, translating the name into an IP address.
  • the DNS would serve up (or address, or become) an associated directory list providing additional information about each entry such as location, telephone/fax numbers, type of business, name of registered owner, or "anonymous" which also provides relevant information to the user.
  • the directory can include Internet specific information such as relative traffic intensity to each site, etc.
  • Each jones.com entry in the associated directory translates to a unique IP address.
  • the user selects the appropriate destination (makes the 'which Jones' selection) from the associated directory, or can search the directory for an element or combination of elements such as 'plumber' and 'Toledo, OH'.
  • the selected entry translates to the unique numeric IP address of the requested resource on the Internet.
  • These numeric IP addresses work exactly as they do today.
  • the translation from name to number is automated; there is a one-to-one relationship.
  • the present solution inserts a selection point supporting a one (name) to any-one-of-many (numbers) relationship. This is what we do manually when we select one Jones from many listed in the telephone directory.
  • any legitimate name can be registered more than once, and the concept of 'legitimate' can be retired. If an owner of a right to a name "Jones" wishes to register a 'jones.com' on the Internet why shouldn't the owner be allowed to do so. An owner can do it now after all, as long as jones.com isn't already registered. The present problem of Namenapping would be significantly reduced. A non-owner of a name could not exclude a name owner from registering and therefore most names could not be held for ransom. This would avoid costly litigation. The ability of a name owner to register the owner's name on the Internet would encourage additional registrations, especially among those who are now 'locked out', and this would increase the total value of the Internet for all users.
  • the present invention will prompt collateral invention and development.
  • the normal rules of society (against diluting trademarks, defamation, illegal impersonation, etc.) will still apply, and there will be less need to create new regulation to apply only to this one communications medium.
  • the present invention can be applied to any and/or all top level and national domains, as determined by the national or international organizations responsible for them.
  • the Internet should not be recognized as a system for preempting a family name or the right of an entity to capitalize on a name that the owner entity has established as an indication of quality goods or quality services and relinquish the right either to the first to register or to an opportunist who recognizes the value of a name and registers it to extort money from those who put value into the name.
  • the associated directory can if desired have one or more sub directories broken down in any known manner containing the names and IP addresses of the owners of similar names and information concerning the owners of similar names, or such names can be contained in the associated directory.
  • the associated directory can if desired contain a sub directory for a listing of the names and IP addresses of entities supplying goods or services relating to or supportive of one of the entities in the national or top level domain.
  • IP address is not required in any event for a listing in the associated directory as a company may only list a phone number or an e-mail address, but the majority of legitimate businesses have or in the future will have an IP address.
  • a requirement should be made that any entity doing business on the Internet should have a traceable geographic address, business type, or some other identifier, which when used in combination with the subdirectory name will render that listing unique when viewed with other listing in the associated directory.
  • the present invention solves the monopolistic problem of allowing only unique registration of a specific domain name to each top level domain or a nickname on a single registry to a single company or restricting nationals from registering a top level domain name.
  • the problem is solved by associating a directory with each domain name so that any company providing related goods are services can advertise in the associated directory regardless of their domain name or numerical Internet address.
  • the directory does not have to contain any information, merely be available in case any entity wishes a listing.
  • any individual, organization or institution can obtain a listing in a domain name directory of their choice. It is not necessary that the entity obtaining the listing even have a numerical Internet address.
  • a postal address, a phone number or any other information that the entity wishes to provide could be accepted including political, and religious advertising with no source indication.
  • each directory and sub-directory can in fact be no more than a number of separate records or columns in a single database, or in multiple or distributed databases.
  • FIG. 1 shows the route taken to obtain related domain names, and/or addresses and/or phone numbers and/or business names and or business types. Best Modes for Carrying Out the Invention Example 1
  • a users computer 1 is connected to the Internet.
  • the computer 1 accesses domain name directory server 3 through a communication line 5.
  • the domain name server returns a unique address if only one domain name is registered, or an associated directory page 7 if several domain names with separate numeric IP addresses are registered under the same domain name. For example if the user knew the domain name was "Smith", the user could enter "Smith.com".
  • the domain name server 3 then supplies a listing of the names and associated information which constitute the associated directory 7 and the corresponding associated numeric address (IP address) corresponding to each associated name in the directory 7 by return communication line 9.
  • the listing 7 would contain a number of'Smith.com” listings along with sufficient information concerning each listing, that user could chose which "Smith.com” the user was searching for.
  • the associated directory listing 7 would contain for each associated entity entry, for example, the type of activity the entity was engaged in, the geographical location of the entity, the IP address the business name, the business type, and/or any other information that the entity wanted or needed to include to distinguish that particular entity from the other listings.
  • the above description is simplified and describes the application of the present invention to the version of the Internet presently in use. The present invention can also be used in future IP versions, which may have a different structure.
  • the associated directory page 7 returned to the user at computer 1 is preferably an
  • each associated directory entry is a hyperlink to the corresponding associated numeric IP address of the respective associated directory entry.
  • the user uses the associated IP address and sends a request through communication line 11 to the Web page host 13 containing the associated IP address listed for that particular Smith listed in listing 7, and by return line 15 receives the information contained in that particular Smith's web page 17.
  • the directory can be separated from the domain name. This requires two separate numeric IP addresses for each domain name. One numeric IP address for the domain name registered under the current registration system and a second numeric IP address for the directory 7 containing names related to the domain name.
  • an associated domain name directory 7 corresponding to a known domain name.
  • An associated directory 7 is associated with each non-unique alphabetical domain name having a plurality of listings.
  • the associated directory 7 can be accessed using a domain name without the .xxx or followed by a "/dir" or a ".dir", such as " ⁇ domain name ⁇ /dir” or " ⁇ domain name ⁇ .dir” or a similar known access means.
  • Preferably the associated directory 7 is accessed using an Internet numeric IP disassociated with the domain name numeric IP.
  • the present invention contemplates the creation of one or more top level domains that do not follow the current pattern, and are used for e.g. directory functions such as described above or for family name directories.
  • the listings in the associated directory can be broken down into separate listings for entities having an IP address.
  • the listings in the associated directory can be ranked in order of the frequency of selection, or by business type, post office address, e-mail address or telephone area code. In the case of post office address, or telephone area code, no DP address is required.
  • Another advantage of the present system is that competitors of the owner of the domain name can advertise in an associated directory under the domain name, reducing to some extent the monopoly rights in the domain name.
  • Associated directory 7 contains a separate listing associated with each of a plurality of domain names, so that any company providing related goods or services can advertise in the associated directory 7 regardless of their domain name or numerical Internet address at the discretion of the national or international registration organization.
  • any individual, organization or institution can obtain a listing in an associated domain name directory 7 of their choice. It is not necessary that the entity obtaining the listing even have a numerical Internet address.
  • a postal address, a phone number or any other information that the entity wishes to provide will be accepted including political, and religious advertising with no source indication, again at the discretion of the national or international registration organization.
  • the term "national domain name" excludes the registry of names of nationals in a registry such as the Indian Ocean registry where nationals are required to register in a collective registry.
  • RFC 1035 One method of implementing the above procedure is set forth in RFC 1035.
  • the existing DNS standard contains a structure of unused records for each domain name that could be expropriated for new uses.
  • the construction of the system would allow the use of a resource record to flag "yes” instead of "no" (or null) to indicate the existence of a non- unique domain name. This could trigger a stop in the automatic translation a domain name to a numerical IP address and spawn a separate process to present a directory of identical domain names plus additional distinguishing information from which the user can make a selection.
  • One way to spawn a separate process is to return to the user the IP address of a web page presentation of a database containing the domain name and related information (qualifiers), in which this distinguishing information is represented as hyperlinks to the separate IP addresses for each of the non-unique domain names.
  • Example 2 In another embodiment the present invention is directed to an application that allows a single Internet Service Provider, or a cooperating group, to provide an Internet directory service allowing multiple registrations of the same domain name that can be used without changing the basic Internet Domain Name Structure, and build an HTML-accessible database in which the unique key to each numeric IP address is a ddmain name-like identifier including a character not normally used in domain names, e.g. the # character.
  • the purpose is to suppress the display of this character and following characters in the software, such as is done in the "new .net' program discussed in the Background Art.
  • the organization of this embodiment is as follows:
  • any field in the same row would select the unique IP address for a web site.
  • the key could be used explicitly as the domain name. For example 'smith.com' in New York would use xxx@smith.com ⁇ mailto:xxx@smith.com> for e-mail, while 'smith.com' in Paris would use xxx@smith#2.com ⁇ mailto:xxx@smith#2.com> for e- mail. This would allow users registered natively in the DNS, "original name holders", to continue using their 'old' e-mail addresses while providing appropriate addresses for "new name holders". Many companies already use different web domain names and e-mail addresses. In a table as above, the 'key' could be named e.g. the 'e-mail domain'.
  • the embodiments provide the use of the IP address as a unique sorting key, different for each entity sharing some similar attribute such as domain name 'jim.name' in the Internet. This idea would work when applied to any or all Top Level Domains in the Internet for example the generic TLD's such as '.com', or a country code TLD's such as '.jp'.
  • the embodiment of Example 2 goes a little further, since it introduces a new, unique
  • FIG 2 shows the organization of the directory of names, associated or otherwise. Any name can be used in this directory. All that is required is that the name in combination with its qualifiers be different from any other name which has been assigned a numeric IP address. Any national or international authority can assign a numeric IP address to the unique name plus qualifier.
  • FIG 2 shows a NAME DIRECTORY 19 which can contain up to all of the names on the Internet. The user chooses a name from DIRECTORY 19, and is then presented with a listing of registrations of that name in combination with distinguishing qualifiers, see 21 and 23.
  • a sub-directory 25 which provides sub-sub-directories having additional qualifiers as Smith Bakery Products 27, Smith Bakery Supplies 29, Smith Bakery Sales 31 and any additional qualifiers to distinguish one Smith Baking from another. If there are still duplicate entries in the same sub-sub-directory, sub-sub-sub-directories can be established and so on until all of the Smith Baking companies can be distinguished from one another.
  • any entity who wishes to have an Internet IP address can have one. All the entity needs is a unique identifier in combination with the entity name.
  • An additional advantage of this system is that it informs a user about the goods or services of the entity.
  • An entity can be as specific as it wishes in identifying its goods and services and as general as it chooses
  • Example 3 The domain name system of the present invention discussed above utilizes a strictly hierarchical directory structure. Another embodiment of the present invention would replace and/or extend the domain name system by utilizing a name-tree structure.
  • a name-tree structure the Intentional Naming System, is described by the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT in Operating Systems Review, 34(5): 186-201, Dec. 1999.
  • a name-tree structure allows several instances of non-unique entries, each further qualified by additional attributes.
  • One advantage of applying an automated name-tree directory structure is that a user may request e.g. 'jones.com' and receive a directory listing of available jones.com domain names with sufficient additional information to make the 'which jones' selection.
  • the name tree is characterized by a register 33 for any name an applicant wishes to register.
  • One or more additional registers 35, 37 and 39 are used for qualifiers which qualifiers in combination with the name, distinguish the registration from all previous registrations.
  • Each move to the right in the name tree directory of FIG 3 further specifies the entity to its left.
  • the registers 33+ are arranged in a tree structure. For example if the registered name is "Jones", and there is more than one "Jones”, the second level register is presented asking "which Jones, plumber 35 or doctor 37'? If plumber is selected and there are more than one "plumber Jones", the third level 39 is presented requesting state 39 and then city 41 and so on.
  • the name on the register could be a name for specialized goods or services, and each qualifier could make the goods or services more specific and in addition identify the source of the goods or services. In practically all cases a numeric IP address is furnished by the directory tree system.
  • the entire name tree for a given name can be exposed, and a user can select the desired IP address.
  • Another approach is to search the name tree using boolean operators.
  • the name tree will be designed by suppliers of goods and services who will be able to provide the right register content for a potential customer or client to find the registrants IP address. Searching through a name tree will educate a user as to what is available.
  • the invention anticipates that increases in processor power coupled with lower costs for memory devices and other technological advances in networked comihunication will eliminate the need for TLD's, allowing SLD's alone to act as domain names ih combination with qualifiers. Any natioiial or international registration authority can then register any name in combination with the necessary qualifiers to render the combination unique.
  • the invention of Arnold, et al, (discussed above) or other service discovery and application layer services in the Internet could utilize the invention.
  • the present invention will allow any industrial organization to acquire an associated name on the Internet and advertise its goods and services, even though the name has been taken under the present registration scheme as a domain name.
  • the present invention allows multiple use of identical names on the Internet to identify different resources.

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L'invention concerne un répertoire (7) ou un registre de protocoles Internet numériques, associé à chaque pluralité de noms de domaine (13) de niveau supérieur sur Internet, de sorte qu'un nombre quelconque de concurrents, de biens associés, et de fournisseurs de services, ou n'importe quel autre possesseur de nom légitime, qu'il s'agisse des noms de famille, de noms de titulaires d'une marque de commerce, ou qu'il s'agisse de noms d'entreprises enregistrées, ces noms peuvent être listés dans le répertoire (7) ou dans le registre associé, sous une pluralité quelconque de noms de domaine de niveau supérieur, de noms descriptifs ou de noms quelconque de leur choix. Le répertoire ou le registre de protocoles Internet numériques peut également être constitué d'une structure à étages multiples, fondée sur des noms indépendants de noms de domaine.
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