Granted Patent B2

US 12,652,264 · App. 18/389,692 · Granted Jun 9, 2026

Inventors: João Henrique Martins Ferreira Guedes (Maia, PT); Richard Kirkendall (Los Angeles, CA); Mohan Muthukumar Vettaikaran (Spring Hill, FL); Rui Rodrigo Cabral Pacheco De Melo (Maia, PT); Artem Zakharchenko (Vila Nova de Gaia, PT); Denys Mudrichenko (Kharkov, UA); Joana Manuel Fachana Cardoso Moreira Da Costa (Vila Nova de Gaia, PT); Carlos Eduardo Cravo Pereira (Mamarrosa, PT); Sara Rita Azevedo Sampaio (Oporto, PT); João Daniel Santiago Maio (Aveiro, PT); Pedro Miguel Santos Lima (Vila Nova de Gaia, PT)

Assignee: NAMECHEAP, INC.

H04L61/2535H04L61/103H04L61/4511H04L61/4541H04L61/5061H04L2101/00H04L2101/686

Abstract

Claims (55)

1 . A server-side implemented method for digitally unpackaging and auto-installing one or more hosted Internet service products from a set of available hosted Internet service products, the method comprising:

receiving a selection of a starting point and determining whether the selected starting point is one selected from (i) a domain and (ii) a hosted Internet service product,

if the starting point selected is a domain, then:

for the domain, prompting for and receiving a selection of at least one hosted Internet service product category in a plurality of hosted Internet service product categories;

for each hosted Internet service product category in the selection of the at least one hosted Internet service product category, prompting to receive a selection of a particular hosted Internet service product to connect to the domain until a set of hosted Internet service products is received;

otherwise, if the starting point selected is a hosted Internet service product, then:

for the hosted Internet service product, prompting for and receiving at least one domain to connect to the hosted Internet service product;

for the hosted Internet service product and each domain, prompting for and receiving a selection of at least one other hosted Internet service product belonging to a hosted Internet service product category to connect to the domain from a set of hosted Internet service product categories;

setting up connections between hosted Internet service products selected and configuring the hosted Internet service products selected; and

providing the hosted Internet service products selected as configured to an installation process.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further including, testing the set of hosted Internet service products for conflicts between hosted Internet service product selections in the set of hosted Internet service products, and if conflicts are detected, initiating resolution process to resolve the conflicts detected.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein testing the set of hosted Internet service products for conflicts between product selections in the set of products, and if conflicts are detected initiating resolution process to resolve the conflicts detected further includes:

searching for attribute fields indicating attributes of hosted Internet service products in the set of hosted Internet service products;

comparing attributes of each selected hosted Internet service product in the set of hosted Internet service products to attribute fields of remaining hosted Internet service products in the set of hosted Internet service products using a set of conflict definitions to identify attributes of a selected hosted Internet service product that conflict with attributes of remaining hosted Internet service products in the set of products; and

whenever conflicting attributes are identified, invoking a resolution process, wherein the resolution process includes at least initiating a request for a selection from (1) removing a conflicting hosted Internet service product from the set of products and offering to perform adding a substitute hosted Internet service product (2) preserving the hosted Internet service products in the set of products and declining a request to add a hosted Internet service product selected, and (3) using a subdomain instead of a domain, receiving a selection, and triggering a further process to implement the selection requested.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein searching for attribute fields indicating attributes of hosted Internet service products further includes:

searching domain name system entries for attribute fields indicating attributes of hosted Internet service product in the set of products.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuring the hosted Internet service products selected further includes setting up parameter values for the hosted Internet service products selected.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein configuring hosted Internet service products selected further includes:

outputting, for the particular hosted Internet service product selected, at least one configuration parameter;

receiving a value for the at least one configuration parameter;

updating the particular hosted Internet service product by setting the at least one configuration parameter with the value received.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the starting point selected is a domain, the prompting for and receiving the selection of at least one hosted Internet service product category further including, determining whether the selection of a particular hosted Internet service product to connect to the domain includes at least one hosted Internet service product that is already connected to the domain and omitting prompting any hosted Internet service product categories to which the selection of a particular hosted Internet service product, already connected to the domain, belongs.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the starting point selected is a hosted Internet service product, the prompting for and receiving the selection of at least one other hosted Internet service product further including, determining whether the selection of at least one other hosted Internet service product belonging to a hosted Internet service product category to connect to the domain includes at least one hosted Internet service product that is already connected to the domain and omitting prompting any hosted Internet service product categories to which the selection of at least one hosted Internet service product, already connected to the domain, belongs.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of hosted Internet service product categories include a hosting service product category, email service product category, security service product category, communications service product category and cloud-based storage service product category.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the hosting service product category includes at least one of a Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Server (or VPS), Dedicated Servers, App-based hosting services.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the App-based hosting services are provided for hosting products including at least one of a WordPress™ product and a Drupal™ product.

12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the email service product category includes at least one of a cloud-based email product, a web-based email product and an endpoint to endpoint encrypted email product.

13 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the security service product category includes at least a secured socket layer (SSL) product having data that defines connection of the SSL product to the domain.

14 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the communications service product category includes at least a voice communication product, a data communication product and a video communication product wherein the voice communication product, the data communication product and the video communication product establish link to the domain using proprietary domain name server records including the domain as an identifier.

15 . The method of claim 1 , further including, dynamically building a library of hosted Internet service product categories wherein a product category comprises a set of products, and wherein the library of hosted Internet service product categories is dynamically created during digitally unpackaging and auto-installing one or more products from a set of available products based on a prior selection of at least one hosted Internet service product selected from (i) the domain and (ii) the hosted Internet service product.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the library of hosted Internet service product categories includes two or more hosted Internet service products belonging to a single product category, further including: blocking more than one of the two or more hosted Internet service products to be included in the set of hosted Internet service products wherein the single product category does not allow selection of products from a same product category.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the blocking more than one of the two or more hosted Internet service products to be included in the set of products further includes permitting only one hosted Internet service product from the respective hosted Internet service product category to be selected.

18 . The method of claim 15 , wherein hosted Internet service products of different hosted Internet service product categories are packaged together in packages and entered into the library, further including:

for a domain, upon receiving selection of a hosted Internet service product in the package, including other hosted Internet service products in the package into the set of products for the domain.

19 . A server system including a hardware processor and memory storing machine instructions that implement a method for digitally unpackaging and auto-installing one or more hosted Internet service products from a set of available hosted Internet service products, which instructions, when executed by the hardware processor, implement actions comprising:

receiving a selection of a starting point and determining whether the selected starting point is one selected from (i) a domain and (ii) a hosted Internet service product,

if the starting point selected is a domain, then:

for the domain, prompting for and receiving a selection of at least one hosted Internet service product category in a plurality of hosted Internet service product categories;

for each hosted Internet service product category in the selection of the at least one hosted Internet service product category, prompting to receive a selection of a particular hosted Internet service product to connect to the domain until a set of hosted Internet service products is received;

otherwise, if the starting point selected is a hosted Internet service product, then:

for the hosted Internet service product, prompting for and receiving at least one domain to connect to the hosted Internet service product;

for the hosted Internet service product and each domain, prompting for and receiving a selection of at least one other hosted Internet service product belonging to a hosted Internet service product category to connect to the domain from a set of hosted Internet service product categories;

setting up connections between hosted Internet service products selected and configuring the hosted Internet service products selected; and

providing the hosted Internet service products selected as configured to an installation process.

20 . A non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine-readable instructions, that when executed by a hardware processor implement actions comprising:

receiving a selection of a starting point and determining whether the starting point selected is one selected from (i) a domain and (ii) a hosted Internet service product,

if the starting point selected is a domain, then:

for the domain, prompting for and receiving a selection of at least one hosted Internet service product category in a plurality of hosted Internet service product categories;

for each hosted Internet service product category in the selection of the at least one hosted Internet service product category, prompting to receive a selection of a particular hosted Internet service product to connect to the domain until a set of hosted Internet service products is received;

otherwise, if the starting point selected is a hosted Internet service product, then:

for the hosted Internet service product, prompting for and receiving at least one domain to connect to the hosted Internet service product;

for the hosted Internet service product and each domain, prompting for and receiving a selection of at least one other hosted Internet service product belonging to a hosted Internet service product category to connect to the domain from a set of hosted Internet service product categories;

setting up connections between hosted Internet service products selected and configuring the hosted Internet service products selected; and

providing the hosted Internet service products selected as configured to an installation process.

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